Beyers-Carlson Emma, Schoenebeck Sarita, Volling Brenda L
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Front Psychol. 2022 Apr 25;13:859085. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859085. eCollection 2022.
Mothers use online resources frequently to obtain information on pregnancy, birth, and parenting. Yet, second-time mothers may have different concerns than first-time mothers given they have a newborn infant and another child at home. The current study conducted an on-line textual analysis of the posts of second-time mothers during pregnancy and the first months postpartum on the BabyCenter LLC website, one of the largest online parenting communities. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) analysis on roughly 16,000 posts to BabyCenter birth clubs in 2017 by approximately 4,000 users revealed second-time mothers relied on the online support of the BabyCenter community to share and discuss topics of pregnancy, birth, and child rearing. Second-time mothers also raised questions about preparing their firstborn children for a new baby sibling, how they would care for two children, whether they would love the second one as much as the first, and how the second child would change family dynamics. Future research needs to recognize that second-time mothers may have distinct concerns surrounding the birth of their second baby, and antenatal education and parenting classes may need to be modified to be more inclusive of these women's needs and perspectives. Online parenting communities offer avenues to support women as they make the transition from one child to two and may provide targeted opportunities to disseminate evidence-based practices that can assist these women and their children.
母亲们经常使用在线资源来获取有关怀孕、分娩和育儿的信息。然而，鉴于二胎妈妈家中已有一个新生儿和另一个孩子，她们可能会有与初产妇不同的担忧。本研究对最大的在线育儿社区之一BabyCenter LLC网站上二胎妈妈孕期及产后头几个月的帖子进行了在线文本分析。对2017年约4000名用户发布到BabyCenter生育俱乐部的约16000篇帖子进行的潜在狄利克雷分配（LDA）分析显示，二胎妈妈依靠BabyCenter社区的在线支持来分享和讨论怀孕、分娩及育儿话题。二胎妈妈还提出了一些问题，比如如何让自己的第一个孩子为新弟弟或妹妹做好准备，她们将如何照顾两个孩子，是否会像爱第一个孩子一样爱第二个孩子，以及第二个孩子将如何改变家庭动态。未来的研究需要认识到，二胎妈妈在迎接第二个孩子出生时可能会有不同的担忧，产前教育和育儿课程可能需要进行调整，以更全面地满足这些女性的需求和观点。在线育儿社区为女性从一个孩子过渡到两个孩子提供了支持途径，并且可能提供有针对性的机会来传播基于证据的做法，以帮助这些女性及其子女。
