ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief literature review of the qualitative work on pregnancy and birth stories in recent decades, with a special focus on immigrant mothers. In some cultures, it is an implicit taboo for students to get married and/or become pregnant. However, it seems that the perfect time never comes in life. Babies not only can be born anywhere, but also born anytime within a woman's childbearing age. As a newcomer to the US pursuing a doctoral degree in education, his goal is to add to these voices, complicating birth story narratives and informing existing health-care practices with pregnant, international women giving birth in the US. It is even more challenging for women to be pregnant while pursuing a PhD degree. Doctoral studies require students to mainly focus on academic research, while the dramatic change of becoming a new mom tends to involve full dedication to motherhood and family.
