A body-changing event? : exploring first-time mothers' embodied experiences in the post-natal period : a hermeneutic-phenomenological study (within a small island community)

This research set out to phenomenologically explore new mothers’ post-natal embodied experiences. The objective of the study was to interview, in a loosely structured way, six first-time mothers, all with babies between the ages of six and twelve months, in order to obtain rich, descriptive material...

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Main Author: McCarthy, Elsa Julie
Published: Middlesex University 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.703077