Introduction

The social/cultural and psychological studies on motherhood started after the second wave of feminism in the mid-twentieth century. The relationship between spirituality and motherhood has not been extensively researched, despite the fact that a growing body of scientific research suggests deep connections between religion, spirituality and both mental and physical health. Motherhood is a relatively new academic discipline and has always been considered ‘private work’, and a domain that did not have a ‘voice’ academically. Numerous studies have, and continue to concentrate on postpartum anxiety, stress and maternal anxiety during the transition to motherhood. Most of the maternal literature research studies on the process of the transition to motherhood included the constant change and transformation of redefining relationships, professional goals and self-identity. Societal attempts to polarise and express the transition to motherhood in dichotomies may be a way of trying to standardise it.