ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the narrative themes identified in late pregnancy. As pregnancy progresses many of the identities and influences surrounding women during pregnancy are reinforced. The role of the fetus in reinforcing the pregnant woman identity continues to be consistent in the narratives. The good mother/bad mother dichotomy is exhibited throughout and across all the women’s narratives. Mary, now labelled as an abnormal pregnant woman, needs to reassert her good mother identity through narrative claims that she was well until 30-weeks pregnant, describing the ‘wobbly moment’ when she fears she is losing a grasp of that identity. Thoughts and worries about labour, which are not really expressed in early pregnancy, now begin to become more prominent. Women in late pregnancy have reinforced and rationalised their choices in a slightly different way from early pregnancy.
