Learning to be a mother. Learning processes of primiparous mothers during the first two post-natal months

Motherhood, as a life project, begins with the birth of a child and involves a large amount of learning, which is undertaken by the new-born baby’s main carers: their mothers. In this background the object of this study, whose results are herein presented, is the learning processes that underpin maternity in primiparous mothers (1) during the first two post-natal months. In methodological terms, a qualitative approach was taken through the holding of interviews. The results obtained reflect the fact that mothers experience specific problems. In their efforts to solve them, primiparous mothers establish different support relations, which has implications in the construction of the motherhood identity. Learning through experience underpins the learning process of how to be a Mother.