Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
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To understand the experience of becoming a mother for single, unpartnered, Medicaid-eligible, first-time mothers in the United States and to discover the basic social psychological problem and process experienced by the mothers during the first 3 months postpartum. ⋯ Single, unpartnered, Medicaid-eligible, first-time mothers in this study managed their "grieving multiple losses" by "reformulating life." The uniqueness of this substantive theory is the relationship between pregnancy, loss, and grief.