The Imagined Baby and the Mother’s, Father’s and Baby’s Identities Constitution

The present research has investigated the parents expectations about the imagined baby and their influences on mother’s, father’s and baby’s identities constitution. Three couples pregnancy for the first time were interviewed during the third trimester of pregnancy. The qualitative content analysis has indicated the parents expectations related baby’s sex, choice of the baby’s name and his physical and psychological characteristics. It noticed that the parents expectations have influenced the mother’s and father’s identities constitution, at mean that the parents have changed their own identity through the baby mention. The same way, they have already attributed child’s identity characteristics allowing him/her to be subject in the family before him/her birth.