Going blindly into the women’s world: a reflective lifeworld research study of fathers’ expectations of and experiences with municipal postnatal healthcare services
Bente Kristin Høgmo, Terese Bondas, Marit Alstveit
2021International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being20 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF
Abstract
: Entering the postnatal period with sparse knowledge about the child and family healthcare services available is difficult for the fathers who do not know what to ask for and what to expect. The fathers' feel excluded by the public health nurse, and the postnatal health care is seen as a mother-baby-public health nurse triad. The feeling of exclusion and inequality might be avoided if public health nurses focused both on mothers' and fathers' individual follow-up needs in the postnatal period and on seeing the newborn baby and the parents as a family unit.
Topics & Concepts
LifeworldFeelingMeaning (existential)Health carePublic healthPsychologyPhenomenonNursingMedicineSocial psychologySociologyPsychotherapistPolitical scienceQuantum mechanicsSocial sciencePhysicsLawMaternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumMaternal and Perinatal Health InterventionsGrief, Bereavement, and Mental Health