Method
Participants
One hundred pregnant women took part in the study. All women completed the
questionnaires during their third trimester of pregnancy (range from 28 to 39 weeks’
gestation; M (Mean) = 32nd week; SD = 2.65). Participants were aged between 19
and 41 (M = 27.9; SD = 3.48). Ninety-one women were married, 9 were in a nonlegalised
romantic relationship. The reported length of relationship with the baby’s
father ranged from 1 to 17 years (M length = 5.84; SD = 3.53). For 83 this was
their first pregnancy, for 11 their second, and for 6 their third. All participated in
classes in seven different ‘Schools of Birth’ in Poland.