“…medical perspectives have explored physical complications during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatally, such as gestational diabetes, birth defects and breastfeeding issues (Barbosa, Chaud, & gomes, 2008;rumbold & Crowther, 2002;ryan & runswick-Cole, 2008). psychology-and psychiatry-based research, on the other hand, focuses more so on exploring the emotional impact of becoming a mother on a woman's psyche, with much of the research within these perspectives studying women who suffer from post-natal depression (pnd;hannan, 2015;homewood, tweed, Cree, & Crossley, 2009). social-science-based research focuses more so on how motherhood is a diverse phenomenon across differing cultures (oakley, 1980), with feminist research in particular exploring how a woman's role as a mother is influenced by the patriarchy and impacts not only her power position but also her place in the home and her place in wider society (hollway, 2016).…”