Matrescenca: razumevanje in podpora novorojenih mam

Valentič Ponikvar, Maša (author), Zorc Maver, Darja (mentor)

Kot socialni pedagogi se pri svojem delu vedno znova srečujemo s posamezniki in skupinami posameznikov v ranljivih življenjskih situacijah. Ena izmed teh je za ženske tudi prehod v materinstvo. Vendar pa je ta ovit v tančice samoumevnosti in zasebnosti. Družba običajno svoj fokus usmerja zgolj v polje patoloških pojavov materinstva kot sta npr. poporodna depresija in poporodna anksioznost. O vsakodnevnem življenju mater se v slovenskem prostoru šele začenja razpravljati v zadnjem obdobju.Magistrsko delo predstavlja pomemben življenjski prehod, ko ženska postaja mama ter raziskujem varovalne dejavnike in dejavnike tveganja znotraj tega prehoda. Predstavim novejši pojem ‘matrescenca’, ki opisuje kompleksnost psiholoških, socialnih in telesnih sprememb, ki jih doživijo ženske v obporodnem obdobju. Predlagam tudi uporabo novejšega pojma ‘novorojena’ mama, ki je bolj skladen z dejanskim stanjem ženske v prvem letu materinstva. V teoretičnem delu opišem materinstvo kot predmet raziskovanja, pomembne točke v razvijanju identitete mame kot so predstave o materinstvu, nosečnost, porod, življenje po porodu ter kompleksnost sprememb matrescence. Predstavim tudi varovalne dejavnike in dejavnike tveganja kot jih opisujejo obstoječi raziskovalci matrescence. Empiričen del predstavlja kvalitativna raziskava, izvedena v dveh fokusnih skupinah. Vzorec predstavlja sedem mam, ki imajo vsaj enega živorojenga otroka in so od poroda oddaljene vsaj eno leto in ne več kot sedem. Iz njihovih odgovorov sem razbrala podatke o tem, kdaj so sploh začutile, da so postale mame; s kakšnimi predstavami so vstopale v materinstvo, kako so doživele svoje poporodno obdobje. Ob enem je bilo raziskano tudi, kaj jih je v tem prehodu podprlo in kaj so zaznale kot oviro. Namen magistrskega dela je, da bi osvetlilo razumevanje življenjskega prehod matrescence ter s tem prispevalo h nadaljnem raziskovanju materinstva in razvoju učinkovite podpore novorojenih mam.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: materinstvo, matrescenca, novorojena mama, kompleksnost življenjskega prehoda, materinstvo kot predmet raziskovanja, varovalni dejavniki, dejavniki tveganja
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Year: 2024
• Publication date in RUL: 11.07.2024

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Matrescence: Understanding and Supporting New Mothers

Abstract

As social pedagogues, in our work we repeatedly encounter individuals and groups of individuals in vulnerable life situations. One of these is the transition to motherhood for women. However, it is shrouded in veils of self-evidentness and privacy. Society usually directs its focus only in the field of pathological phenomena of motherhood, such as. postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety. The everyday life of mothers has only recently begun to be discussed in Slovenia. In my master’s thesis I present an important life transition from a woman to a mother and to investigate protective factors and risk factors within the transition. I present the newer concept of ‘matrescence’, which describes the complexity of psychological, social and physical changes experianced by women during the postpartum period. I also suggest using the newer term ‘newborn mother’, which is more consistent with the actual situation of woman in the first year of motherhood. In the theoretical part, I describe motherhood as an object of research, important points in the development of a mother’s identity, such as conceptions of motherhood, pregnancy, childbirth, life after childbirth and the complexity of changes of matrescence. I also present protective factors and risk factors as described by existing researchers of matrescence. Empirical part presents qualitative research conducted in two focus groups. The sample consists of seven mothers, who have at least one live child, and are at least 1 year and no more than 7 years away from giving birth. From their answers I formed information about when they first felt that they had become mothers; with what ideas about it they entered motherhood; how they experienced their postpartum period. Above all, I was interested in what supported them in this transition and what they perceived as obstacles. The purpose of the master’s thesis is to focus on understanding of the life transition of matrescence and therby contribute to further research of motherhood and to develop effective support for newborn mothers.

• Keywords: motherhood, matrescence, newborn mother, complexity of life transition, motherhood as an object of research, protective factors, risk factors.