【Objective】 The frequency of pregnancies among kidney transplant recipients has increased due to improvement in kidney transplant health care. Marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth are important in a woman’s life, even for kidney transplant recipients. The goal of this study was to highlight the experience of childbearing for kidney transplant recipients and to investigate methods of nursing for that condition. 【Design】 Qualitative research. 【Methods】 Data collection was performed by conducting semi-structured interviews with three mothers who had experienced pregnancy and delivered their children after kidney transplantation.The life history of each recipient was described according to the life history method, and we performed qualitative and inductive analysis. 【Results】 Four periods were considered in evaluating the experience of kidney transplantation subjects regarding pregnancy and childbirth. Recipients, who abandoned the possibility of motherhood before kidney transplantation, felt strongly that their purpose was to bear and rear children. On the other hand, since they suffered from anxiety resulting from the stress of rearing children since childbirth, it led to their poor health maintenance. 【Conclusion】 Recipients had abandoned the hope for bearing and rearing children before transplantation. However, the transplant enabled those women to experience childbirth and parenting; they appreciated such an experience and found something to live for. On the other hand, because health care gets neglected when one is busy with childcare, they were scared and afraid that their graft might get damaged. We concluded that it is necessary to transform their desire to be healthy for their child into self-health maintenance.
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