ABSTRACT

Medical researchers asked pregnant women that How they feel about having a baby now. The ambivalent are characterized as those who accept being pregnant without any enthusiasm, those who change their negative assessment to be positive or accepting, and those with contradictory feelings. This shocks researchers into framing story as a series of marginalized discourse, in particular ambivalence, bodily knowledge, and flux. Relational thinking requires us to step beyond simplistic dichotomies to recognize a dialectic relationship, a "third space" wherein many possibilities exist for combinations of both/ and. In some case women forget about the students' presentation until the Saturday after Thanks giving when the family leaves, and they slink to the Walgreens near the house for a pregnancy test. Each woman's life represents a different story with a different combination of desires regarding her private/public lives, and this story evolves over time as different events and opportunities arise.