title: The motherhood experience in the context of social vulnerability: a comprehensive approach to social phenomenology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to understand the future expectations and experience of vulnerable mothers from pregnancy to their child's early years.
  
  
  METHODS
  this qualitative study used the social phenomenology of Alfred Schütz as a framework. From January to April 2011, nine mothers from the 2009 program "Chile Grows with You" were interviewed at health centers in an urban Santiago de Chile community.
  
  
  RESULTS
  analysis of the "lived type" led to an understanding of the mothers' real-world experience. Unexpected pregnancies in extremely vulnerable mothers are associated with feelings of hopelessness then resignation. There is no plan for the future; the mother lives in the present with great uncertainty.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  from the mothers' stories, significant patterns were identified in their experiences, yielding insights into society from these women's perspectives. For humanized, comprehensive nursing care, this expertise directs interventions designed to overcome despair in women excluded because of their invisibility and poverty.
authors: Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile. lmunoz@unab.cl
authors: Luz Angélica
authors: LA
authors: Muñoz
authors: Ximena
authors: X
authors: Sanchez
authors: Estela
authors: E
authors: Arcos
authors: Antonia
authors: A
authors: Vollrath
authors: Carla
authors: C
authors: Bonatti
mesh_terms: D002677:Chile; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D063545:Personal Narratives as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D012961:Sociology; D035862:Vulnerable Populations