TY - JOUR
T1 - First Childbirth and Motherhood at Post Natural Fertile Age
T2 - A Persistent and Intergenerational Experience of Personal and Social Anomaly?
AU - Chen, Wendy
AU - Landau, Ruth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/1/2
Y1 - 2015/1/2
N2 - This study was aimed at understanding long-term psychosocial implications of first childbirth at post natural fertile age following assisted reproductive treatment. Twenty women, whose average age at childbirth was 45, participated. Findings show that the sense of anomaly experienced prior to pregnancy and childbirth related to infertility and advanced age continued during treatment, pregnancy, and motherhood. Participants associated their advanced age as cause for what they perceived as a similar sense of anomaly experienced by their children. The issue of a continuing and intergenerational sense of anomaly should be addressed when counseling women considering fertility treatment at advanced age.
AB - This study was aimed at understanding long-term psychosocial implications of first childbirth at post natural fertile age following assisted reproductive treatment. Twenty women, whose average age at childbirth was 45, participated. Findings show that the sense of anomaly experienced prior to pregnancy and childbirth related to infertility and advanced age continued during treatment, pregnancy, and motherhood. Participants associated their advanced age as cause for what they perceived as a similar sense of anomaly experienced by their children. The issue of a continuing and intergenerational sense of anomaly should be addressed when counseling women considering fertility treatment at advanced age.
KW - advanced maternal age
KW - fertility treatment
KW - psychosocial implications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84921293098&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00981389.2014.966880
DO - 10.1080/00981389.2014.966880
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C2 - 25588094
AN - SCOPUS:84921293098
SN - 0098-1389
VL - 54
SP - 16
EP - 32
JO - Social Work in Health Care
JF - Social Work in Health Care
IS - 1
ER -