Table 2 Theme, categories, and subcategories emerged from the interviews
Sub categories | Categories | Theme |
|---|---|---|
Suffering from an ambiguous disease | Individual health concerns following pregnancy | Duality of desire and fear in childbearing |
Limiting self-care in daily life | ||
Fear of postpartum disease recurrence | ||
Motherhood as an individual desire | Motherhood and womanhood perceptions | |
Motherhood as an asset and opportunity to affirm womanhood | ||
Regret for missing the opportunity of motherhood | ||
Fear of congenital abnormality | Concerns about child harm | |
Failure to meet the infant’s requirements | ||
Husband’s reluctance to have offspring | Contradictory beliefs and attitudes of significant family members and clinicians about pregnancy | |
Prohibition of pregnancy by clinicians | ||
Relatives’ tendency towards creating offspring | ||
Neglecting the need to fertility by health care providers | Lack of social support for fertility | |
Insufficient support of healthcare providers | ||
The requirement for additional support from family and husband | ||
Misunderstanding of healthcare staff about pregnancy risks and benefits | ||
Poor patient-provider communication during consultation about pregnancy |