Penetrating the Fog

Abstract

The purpose of this column is to explore the experience of being pregnant as talked about by women in Taiwan. In nursing and healthcare in general, there is a tendency to objectify the experience from a biomedical view, focusing on physiological changes and symptoms. A human science approach is here applied to help understand the themes that were evident in the comments of 23 pregnant Taiwanese women, about what being pregnant was like for them. The perspective used for the explanation was Parse’s humanbecoming paradigm. Being pregnant is seen by the author as a chosen way of becoming visible-invisible becoming in the world which involves; being oneself, but not oneself, doubling up, and living with the mystery of the other.

Keywords

humanbecoming nursing pregnancy Taiwan

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