Transition To Parenthood Research

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The arrival of a first child represents a major life transition and it is a period of life involving stress and requiring significant alteration in customary life patterns. The stress associated with the transition to parenthood has primarily focused on the physical demands from child caring. Specifically, new parents report routinely an experience of stress caused by loss of sleep and constant fatigue. Such fatigue results from the extra work required in caring for a highly dependent child, especially in caring for the baby through the night during normal sleep hours. The conflict between prenatal expectation and postnatal experience was applicable to majority of mothers but not limited to doctoral student mothers. However, in current study,

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