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The Epistemology of Expectant Parenthood

Margarete Sandelowski

Department of Women's and Children's Health, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Beth Perry Black

University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC

Ramona T. Mercer, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N.

University of California, San Francisco

Vangie Bergum, R.N., Ph.D.

University of Alberta

M. Colleen Stainton, R.N., D.N.S.

University of Calgary

A secondary analysis of information obtainedfrom 288 interviews, conducted with 62 childbearing couples in the course of a qualitative and longitudinal study, suggests that much of the work of expectant parenthood is oriented toward getting to know the fetus. This article emphasizes the epistemological (as opposed to the emotional) relationship between parent and fetus.

Western Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 16, No. 6, 601-622 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/019394599401600602
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