Abstract:Giving birth and becoming a parent is a physical and psychological process that builds upon one’s previous life experiences. For instance, earlier life-events may be related to how a woman experiences her childbirth (Beck & Casavant, 2019), while a woman’s birth experience may impact her mental health and parenthood (Beck, 2011; Carter et al., 2022; McKelvin et al., 2021; Sun et al., 2021). A sizable minority of women experience their childbirth as negative (Hosseini Tabaghdehi et al., 2020) or even trauma… Show more
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