Psychological Features of the Bodily Experience of Maternity Women with Healthy and Sick Children

Abstract

<p>From the standpoint of the cultural-historical approach in psychosomatics, physicality also changes in adulthood: in the situation of illness, aging, the birth of a child, etc., and factors that enrich bodily experience are highlighted. In the postpartum period, this factor may be the child's illness. The paper studies the bodily experience of maternity patients. It has been hypothesized that the bodily experience in the postpartum period changes compared to the usual one, and the bodily experience of maternity hospitals with sick children differs from that of maternity hospitals with healthy children. 136 women aged 19-30 took part in the work: women who do not have children, maternity hospitals with healthy children and maternity hospitals with sick children. The methods "Classification of sensations", "10 sensations", "Scale of sensations in the postpartum period", "Scale of vegetative perception", "Questionnaire for maternity hospitals", "Body attention questionnaire" were used. The features of the bodily experience of maternity hospitals with healthy children were revealed: the predominance of the number of physical descriptors over mental ones, etc., and with patients: increased concentration on the sensations from the child etc. The results reinforce the importance of the joint stay of the mother and the baby when placing him in the hospital.</p>