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Managing Space and Marking Time: Mothering Severely Ill Infants in Hospital Isolation

University of Toronto, Home and Community Care Evaluation and Research Centre (HCERC) at the University of Toronto.

Sally O’neill

University of Toronto

Karen-Lee Miller

Home and Community Care Evaluation and Research Centre (HCERC) at the University of Toronto

In this study, mothers retrospectively describe their experiences of prolonged protective isolation with infants hospitalized for severe combined immune deficiency. Mothers (N = 5) spent approximately 10 hours every day for 10.5 months in an 11-foot-square isolation room. Dressed in masks and surgical garb, they cared for their infants but were prohibited from engaging in skin contact. Although the rooms’ characteristics and regulations remained fixed, mothers’ sociospatial experiences varied dramatically over the course of the infants’ treatment trajectories. The findings illustrate how place, space, and time affect women’s well-being and their social and mothering relations in health care settings.

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