Moving up the "magic moment": Fathers' experience of prenatal ultrasound

Fathering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 18-37

  Walsh, Tova B ^a   Tolman, Richard M ^b   Neal Davis, R ^c   Palladino, Christie L ^d   Romero, Vivian C ^e   Singh, Vijay ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Bonding; Pregnancy; Prenatal; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899632517     PISSN: 15376680     EISSN: 1933026X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3149/fth.1201.18     Document Type: Article

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