Maternal Role Attainment in Peuperal Stage and Midwives’ Role for Positive Adaptation by the Mother

Abstract

This study investigated maternal role attainment during the puerperal stage, as well as the role of midwives in the mother's positive adaptation. The concept of maternal role attainment was defined as "a developmentally, interactive, adaptive, and committed multi-dimensional process based on the discovery of pregnancy, characteristics of the mother, receiving social support, which leads to maternal identity, formation of maternal skills, resiliency, development of newborn, improvement of mother-newborn interactions and increased well-being of the mother. The study was based on Mercer's theory, which emphasises the mother-child bond as a source of competency, confidence, and joy in the motherhood role. Mercer's original maternal role attainment theory has four stages. Midwives and women's health-care personnel, according to the study findings, are in a position to teach the importance of maternal role, support the baby perception process in the early postnatal stages, and help develop the mother's self-confidence in order for mothers to develop successful motherhood behaviours and to assist women in appropriate maternal role attainment and maternal role satisfaction. It was suggested that there was a need to develop maternal skills, and that this is dependent on the mother's perception of her maternal role and her ability to attain and fulfil it.