Research indicates that childbirth is a time when a woman might experience existential
disruptions and gain new perspectives on life. The 2-fold aim of this study was to investigate
whether attitudes related to existential meaning among first-time mothers intensify and
whether they differ between mothers who gave birth at full term and those who gave birth
preterm. All first-time mothers who gave birth in Denmark in 2010 before the 32nd week of
pregnancy and twice that number of full-term mothers (randomly sampled) were invited to …