Chapter 1 The Complex and Contradictory Emotional Paths to Parenthood

Chapter 2 Postnatural Families: Refiguring Intimacy Through Assisted Reproduction

Chapter 3 Embodying Pregnancy and Self-Surveillance

Chapter 4 Pain and Suffering in Labour and Birth

Chapter 6 The Turbulent Emotions of Early Parenthood

Chapter 7 ‘What Have I Done?’: An Exploration of the Ambivalent, Unimaginable Emotions of New Motherhood

Chapter 8 Narrating and Disrupting Postnatal Depression

Chapter 9 ‘One of the Most Vulnerable Times in Your Life’: Expectations and Emotional Experiences of Support in the Early Postnatal Period

Chapter 10 Labour After Labour: Negotiating Caring for Children and Paid Work