Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The complex and contradictory emotional paths to parenthood -- Part I: Journeys into pregnancy and childbirth -- Chapter 2: Postnatural families: Refiguring intimacy through assisted reproduction -- Chapter 3: Embodying pregnancy and self-surveillance -- Chapter 4: Pain and suffering in labour and birth -- Part II: Journeys into early parenthood -- Chapter 5: Same-sex attracted parents' emotional transitions to parenthood -- Chapter 6: The turbulent emotions of early parenthood -- Chapter 7: 'What have I done?': An exploration of the ambivalent, unimaginable emotions of new motherhood -- Chapter 8: Narrating and disrupting postnatal depression -- Chapter 9: 'One of the most vulnerable times in your life': Expectations and emotional experiences of support in the early postnatal period -- Chapter 10: Labour after labour: Negotiating caring for children and paid work -- Appendix 1: Emotional Experiences of Early Parenthood in Australian Families Project: Participant demographic characteristics -- Index.