TABLE 1.

Examples of Analyses Used to Examine Fathers' Perceptions of Prenatal Parental Education

Familiarization	Conception	Condensation	Grouping	Collective Description	Outcome Space	Re-reading
Fathers' conceptions assessed for capture. Parental education mainly focused on the mother's situation.	“My opinion is we did not receive any good information of what would happen after a cesarean. It is so common and therefore it should…I believe I could have prepared myself better… I did not know… because Betty could not take part during the first days and did not get close, really. It was me and my baby.”	Fathers perceived parental education did not prepare the participants for cesarean section and its effects on mother-infant bonding—something the father conceived of as necessary if he was to be properly prepared.	Cesarean section	Fathers reported nobody mentioned the effects of mother-infant separation on mother-infant bonding after reunion with the infant.	Conception Consequences for mother, partner, and child Subcategory Cesarean section and complicated birth Category Parental education defused the issue of complicated birth	Fathers' conceptions assessed after captured.