ArticleSociology of health & illness2017
A narrative analysis of the birth stories of early-age mothers.
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- Methods used in prevalence studies of disrespect and abuse during facility based childbirth: lessons learned.Reproductive health · 2017Pooled it
- Antenatal preparation as care: birth stories and collective learning at work.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- Effects of educational intervention based on childbirth scenarios on fear of childbirth in primiparous women.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Article
- Parenting Stress Among Adolescent Mothers: An Integrative Literature Review.Western journal of nursing research · 2022Review
- The storying of birth.Health (London, England : 1997) · 2022Article
- African American Adolescent Mothers' Childbirth Support From Fathers, Grandmothers, Nurses, Doctors, and Doulas.The Journal of perinatal education · 2022Article
- Storytelling in Pregnancy and Childbirth: An Integrative Review of the Literature.Journal of pregnancy · 2022Review
- Evidence-based priorities of under-served pregnant and parenting adolescents: addressing inequities through a participatory approach to contextualizing evidence syntheses.International journal for equity in health · 2021Article
- Co-producing childbirth knowledge: a qualitative study of birth stories in antenatal sessions.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2019Article
- Measuring perinatal and postpartum quality of life of women and associated factors in semi-urban Bangladesh.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Translation and Cultural Adaptation of the Childbirth Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) in Iran.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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Abstract
The telling of birth stories (i.e. stories that describe women's experiences of giving birth) is a common and important social practice. Whereas most research on birth narratives reflects the stories of middle-class, 'adult' women, we examine how the birth stories told by early-age mothers interconnect with broader narratives regarding social stigma and childbearing at 'too early' an age. Drawing on narrative theory, we analyse in-depth interviews with 81 mothers (ages 15-24 years) conducted in Greater Vancouver and Prince George, Canada, in 2014-15. Their accounts of giving birth reveal the central importance of birth narratives in their identity formation as young mothers. Participants' narratives illuminated the complex interactions among identity formation, social expectations, and negotiations of social and physical spaces as they narrated their experiences of labour and birth. Through the use of narrative inquiry, we examine the ways in which re-telling the experience of giving birth serves to situate young mothers in relation to their past and future selves. These personal stories are also told in relation to a meta-narrative regarding social stigma faced by 'teenage' mothers, as well as the public's 'gaze' on motherhood in general - even within the labour and delivery room.
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