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The Power of Sharing Birth Stories
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YES! Magazine - Health & Happiness
Birth story podcasts and websites feature a curated range of birth experiences, and you can buy embossed leather “birth story” journals as a baby shower gift.
Therefore, we hypothesized that meaning-making might be an important part of couples’ birth narratives, potentially promoting resilience in new parents.
We visited couples at the hospital within a day or two of their infant’s birth, and audio-recorded them sharing their stories together.
Overall, these results supported our initial hunch that meaning-making might be detectable in birth narratives and forecast parents’ psychological adjustment after birth.
After all, the birth of a baby is also the birth of a story—and that story is well worth telling.
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