Table 2.

Quotes describing parental experience of morphine use during TH

Sub-themes	Quotes
Too much morphine	“child was frozen and then overdosed on morphine” “because he was loaded up on more morphine that an adult human probably”
Associations with the word morphine	“It’s scary to hear the word morphine” “I just think of it [morphine] as more death related” “the morphine was very difficult because my grandmother passed away with cancer and it was... right after they put her on morphine…they just kept upping and upping it and upping it and she was gone. So you know to find out your son’s on morphine, it was like that’s not good news…”
Use of morphine to calm the infant	“the nurse wanted to give him extra morphine and I said he’s not.and she wanted to give him more morphine to calm him down and all we needed to do was switch the indicator [oxygen saturation probe] from one foot to the other and then it was fine. And I’m thinking, if she would’ve given him more morphine, it would’ve been totally unnecessary.” “[morphine was] weaned down to almost off and she [nurse] upped it back to what it had been.I want to know what she really thought was fussy in order to give him that. You know what I mean, like what justifies fussy?”