“Give birth to a female child: A qualitative study exploring mothers' experiences of multiple female childbirths in Jordan.” (Preprint)

Abstract

Childbirth experiences were distinctive, exceptional feelings, reactions to postpartum women. Major difficulty facing maternal, such as Gender is the main social determinants, female gender is socially and culturally shaped by the roles and responsibilities.

To clarify the experience of Jordanian mothers, who given birth to daughters ‘multiple female childbirth’. Also, to understand childbirth experiences and their meaning is important in projecting individualized care for mothers. Also, to investigate meaningful childbirth experiences among postpartum mothers.

Phenomenology approach design. The target population for this study is Jordanian mothers who have multiple female childbirth. A convenience purposive method was selected to recruit participants who met the criteria. The sample size will be between 10-12 participants and the researcher stopped collecting data and conducting interviews when no new themes or data emerged following data analysis, Data analysis using Colaizzi’s (1978) method.

According to analysis of one story describing postpartum mother the result demonstrated that are two themes. The first theme: Challenges faced by woman regarding psych-emotional health, and the second theme: lack of family and spousal coping methods that described the essence of mother experience for multiple female childbirth. The findings from the interview have emerged, as themes broken into sub-themes and codes.

This study has begun to explore experiences of Jordanian women who have multiple female childbirth in Jordan, and the challenges they face. This phenomenology study aim to understand fully mother lived experiences. This study result demonstrated that mother suffering a bitterness of quality of life for multiple female childbirth, experience of domestic violence, spousal isolation, aggressive spousal reaction for female gender, and emotional hazard after female childbirth, such as Sorrow/ Grief feeling, destroy mother dreams and hopes, and conflict and stress inside her spousal family. According to this study, mother is given the chance to describe her experiences of motherhood, as well as her relationships with her family, woman also described the obstacles she has troubles with husband to have multiple female childbirth, women identified several factors that influenced the changes that occurred in their marital relationship. The important point the continuity of marital relationship is threatened because of the multiple birth of the females.