Title |
“I just feel like I am broken. I am the worst pregnant woman ever”: A qualitative exploration of the “at odds” experience of women's antenatal distress
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Published in |
Health Care for Women International, February 2017
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DOI | 10.1080/07399332.2017.1297448 |
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Authors |
Aleksandra A. Staneva, Fiona Bogossian, Alina Morawska, Anja Wittkowski |
Abstract |
Advances in perinatal mental health research have provided valuable insights around risk factors for the overall development of maternal distress. However, there is still a limited understanding of the experience of women struggling emotionally during pregnancy. We explored how women view, experience and interpret psychological distress antenatally. Eighteen Australian women participated in in-depth interviews that were analyzed thematically within a critical realist theoretical framework. We present and situate the current findings within the dominant discourse of the good mother, which arguably promotes guilt and stigma and results in women self-labelling as bad mothers. |
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