Paper
Thursday, July 12, 2007
The Experience of Becoming a Mother in Women who Conceived Using Assisted Reproductive Technology
Yu-Ming Wang, RN, MSN and Bih-Ching Shu, PhD, RN. Department of Nursing and Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan
| Learning Objective #1: The learner will be able to understand the process of becoming a mother in women who conceived using assisted reproductive technology in Taiwan. |
| Learning Objective #2: The learner will be able to understand the experience and meaning of becoming a mother in women who conceived using assisted reproductive technology in Taiwan. |
The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of becoming a mother in women who conceived using assisted reproductive technology. Four women who conceived using assisted reproductive technology after becoming a mother participated in the individual in-depth interview. The verbatim transcripts were formed and the field notes were recorded. Thematic statements that were representative of the experience of becoming a mother in the participants were isolated from the verbatim transcripts and field notes. After extracting and naming from all the phrases, sentence clusters and field notes, the core essence was derived. The results revealed that ‘Parenting as the integration of woman self’ was the core essence of the experience of becoming a mother in women who conceived using assisted reproductive technology. In the process of receiving assisted reproductive technology, the women who diagnosed with infertility experienced hunger for being a mother and struggled in the infertility self. In the experience of becoming a mother and parenting, these women developed the identity of maternal role, practiced the parenting role, and grew self. This essence was supported by five themes: ‘hunger for being a mother’, ‘struggled in the infertility self’, ‘developing the identity of maternal role’, ‘practicing the parenting role’, and ‘the growing self’. The experience of becoming a mother in women who conceived using assisted reproductive technology emerge the women’s value and believe system that influenced by the social culture. The finding of this study could provide the health profession to understand the women’ experience of becoming a mother who conceived using assisted reproductive technology.