title: Caregiving motivations and developmentally prompted transition for mothers of prematurely born infants.
abstract: Parenting transition is a process prompted by infant developmental changes and may be defined by motivations for caregiving and the goals they indicate. Qualitative exploration of neonatal and 1-year feeding experience of 22 mothers of very-low-birth-weight infants revealed 3 types of caregiving-related motivations-nurturing, relating, and shaping quality of life. The clusters of motivations differed between ages and across mothers, suggesting transition in parenting reflective of both infant development and maternal goals. Study with a larger sample is needed to examine change in caregiving motivations and their function in characterizing parenting transitions.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. kpridham@wisc.edu
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pridham
authors.forename: Tondi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krolikowski
authors.forename: Rana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Limbo
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schroeder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018730:Infant Behavior; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000523:psychology*; D008016:Life Change Events; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009042:Motivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D055815:Young Adult