The journey towards motherhood after a very preterm birth: Mothers’ experiences in hospital and after home-coming
Background
To start with of this study qualitative secondary analysis . interview the mothers twice during the hospital and interview asking "Tell me what it is like to be a mother" and concluded with "Is there anything more you want to tell?" During data analysis and finally the essence of the phenomenon.
The aim thus was to investigate mothers’ experiences of being mothers of very preterm infants, the meaning of staying in the hospital on a 24-hour basis and the experience of the home-coming.
Research question : Can the complexation motherhood be better understood using a hermeneutic approach?
Hypothesis/Hypotheses
No real hypothesis is recovery.
Methods
Secondary analysis of data earlier analyzed. A hermeneutic phenomenology approach, Where the phenomenon was considered in light of 4 existentials.
A. The intention who to interview the mothers twice during the hospital and interview asking "Tell me what it is like to be a mother" and interview asking "Tell me what it is like to be a mother" and concluded with "Is there anything more you want to tell?"
B. Explain methods
1. A sudden and uncertain entering to motherhood.
A. In the space of life and death: In the first weeks some of the mothers were in a space of life and death. The days were unreal and filled with anxiety.
B. Missing intimacy with their baby: Initially, lack of intimacy with their baby combined with the anxiety that the baby would not survive filled the mothers they felt powerless and alone.
C. Living the adaptation of a new body: The mothers had to adapt to the bodily feeling of flatness, missing the roundness of their belly and the movements of the pre-birth infant.
2. Being on their way as preterm mothers in a hospital world.
A. Love and attachment when holding the body: When premature babies in the arms of his mother. Her felt the change in skin-to-skin.
B. By-standing and withdrawing loved ones: The spouses and family are involved in parenting a premature infant.
C. Valued and informed mother-to-mother relationship: During the stay the mothers developed friends with other mothers. The mothers easily understood each other, they talked together.
3.At home at last-entering a new motherhood journey.
A. Being responsive mothers-the baby sows the way: The hospital stay feeding and nurturing were on a schedule. When at home the mothers let the baby decide when to eat and sleep. They were responsive mothers and let the baby show the way.
B. Being a preterm mother4 constantly worrying and comparing: Compared with babies the same age development of preterm infants also have to be in the care of the mother.
C. Spouse and parents are stepping in: While his mother was at the hospital with their spouses and families to take care of baby and back the home spouse and family was involved in the baby.
Results and funding.
The study was to explore Danish mother who at no cost were allowed to stay in relative rooms at the hospital until the baby was discharged. this study Early holding is beneficial for coregulation behavior; it gives .their pregnancy. Referring to the phenomenological and a chiasmic intertwining relationship mothers who have received developmental care at hospital worry about the baby when at home Worry may be part to being a mother, of compassion and sensitive towards her infant.
this study to learn the best way for health care professionals to ameliorate the suffering of the mothers and get deeper knowledge of the uniqueness of an early motherhood.