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Maternal expectations in first-time mothers and their confrontation with reality
KÁBRTOVÁ, Linda
This bachelor thesis deals with the expectations of pregnant mothers - first-time mothers, it compares these expectations with their real experiences of childbirth and the postpartum period. The theoretical part of the bachelor thesis summarizes the existing knowledge about the transition of women to motherhood. It deals with the experience of pregnancy, expectations associated with motherhood and early postpartum adaptation. It also deals with how a woman experiences the first weeks after giving birth. The practical part is work up as a qualitative research. The goal is to examine the expectations of pregnant women, the experience of childbirth and the postpartum period, and possible discrepancies between the expectations and reality of early motherhood in four respondents. Data were analysed in intra- and inter-case comparison. It turned out that future mothers have the highest expectations from childbirth, helping a partner and from herself in a new role. They experience these to live changes very individually.

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