Maternity constitution in single pregnant women

Abstract

Pregnancy causes intense emotions in women’s lives and encourages changes of several orders, which by itself already shows that this period is experienced with some difficulties, which can intensify when the baby’s father is not present. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the formation of single motherhood among pregnant women. Participated in nine primiparous women who were unmarried and in the last trimester of pregnancy. The qualitative content analysis revealed that the formation of single mothers into motherhood was associated with both the body changes, such as psychological and social, which eventually interfere in intrapsychic and inter-relational pregnant women. The experience of motherhood appeared linked to feelings of sadness, anger and loneliness and doubt about the desire to keep the baby. It was noticed, too, a gradual process of acceptance of pregnancy, especially if the mother had the support of family members. Finally, it is plausible to think that even being a single mother could result in an overload of tasks, especially during pregnancy and early years of childhood, their father’s absence can not be understood as a determinant for the loss of the mother-baby because this will depend on how the mother experiences this failure and transmits to the child.