Appendix: Interview Content
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2018
Summary
Interviews aimed to cover the following areas of experience:
The experience of receiving an HIV-positive diagnosis
The implications of being diagnosed while pregnant
Disclosure: who had been told and why/not; experiences of disclosure
How women believed that they had become HIV-positive and the meanings that These explanations had for them
Relationship to the father of the baby and the father's experience of parenthood
Conceptions of the future for themselves and their children
What motherhood meant to them
If this was their first child, what this meant to them. If a second or subsequent child, how they thought motherhood was similar to and/or different from their previous experiences
How they evaluated themselves as mothers
Hopes and fears about motherhood
Discussion about the pregnancy and/or the baby
Thoughts on breastfeeding
Implications of the delay in knowing the baby's status
Thoughts and feelings about the baby's status
Emotions, fantasies and dreams about HIV and motherhood
Experiences of coming to the clinic and seeing other HIV-positive mothers
Experiences of the perceptions of others (including other mothers and HIV-positive and -negative people)
Family background
Experience of the interview
Biographical and demographic information (age; employment status; living circumstances; time of diagnosis; partner status; number of other children; baby's status, if known) was elicited during the course of interviews at points appropriate to the discussion.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Contradicting MaternityHIV-positive motherhood in South Africa, pp. 209 - 210Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2009