This paper is one aspect of a larger study on the cultural construction of childbearing and motherhood among women in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. An in-depth interviewing technique was employed to elicit information (Gubrium and Holstein 2001). This was appropriate since the goal of this study was to uncover and understand the women's subjective experience of childbearing and motherhood. In this way, culturally relevant and sensitive care could be designed and implemented (Liamputtong Rice and Ezzy 1999).