ABSTRACT
Certain qualities within participants’ individual findings were consonant with one another and formed the building blocks of this inquiry’s findings. This chapter briefly describes the process I engaged in to come to findings both in written word and visual representation. I then convey the particular qualities that contributed to my three findings including the ways in which holding was experienced as purposeful; the ways holding enabled a precious and strange expansion into a mother/child ‘us’ and the moment of holding as a space for co-generation and navigation of significant relational stories including shared history and patterns of being together. Underlying all three findings was a robust thread of intersubjective experiencing and knowing. I note that this intersubjectivity was not experienced or conceptualised in a way that conflated our children’s experience with our own, only that within moments of holding, experiences were co-created by the mother/child relationship. These findings are then explored in dialogue with other voices and images in the following three chapters.
