Prenatal Motivation for Caregiving Issues: A Pilot Study of Mothers Expecting Healthy Infants and Infants With Complex Congenital Heart Disease.

Assessment of issues women are working on prenatally, indicating motivations for preparing for infant caregiving, and of the intensity of motivations advances culturally-attuned and family-centered preparation. Knowledge of these issues and motivation intensity could orient clinical care to supporting women in developing well-informed expectations, intentions, and goals culturally suited to postnatal learning and infant needs.