Table 3.

Final coding frame

Theme	Description
1) What keeps me from improving my health?	Barriers to improving health or reaching goals
1a. The way pregnancy makes me feel	Pregnancy-specific experiences
1b. I’m still recovering from labour	Physical changes/impairments made it difficult to exercise post-birth
1c. My focus has changed since giving birth	Barriers related to having a new baby
1d. My health is not a priority	Lack of interest in own health
2) What things in my life help me to be healthy?	Facilitators to improving health or reaching goals
2a. I have always had a healthy lifestyle	Being healthy comes naturally
2b. People around me are healthy too	Social support for improving health behaviours
2c. My environment encourages healthy behaviours	Environmental factors such as food availability or exercise facilities
3) How did I use pregnancy-specific resources?	Use of available sources of information or support such as apps, books and classes
3a. Baby’s development	Reading about how the baby is growing and developing
3b. Specific concerns	Looking up specific symptoms or guidelines
3c. To help me improve my health	Advice or information related to improving diet or increasing physical activity
4) How much did I engage with the research nurses’ support?	Experiences and engagement with the HCS intervention
4a. I realised that they were trying to support me to set and reach health behaviour goals	Participants describe the HC skills that the nurses used
4b. The support I had helped me to be healthier	How the HCS intervention encouraged behaviour change
4c. I set goals and tried to meet them (or not)	Engagement with goal-setting and effort made to reach those goals
5) Why do I want to be healthy?	Motivators for wanting to improve diet or increase physical activity
5a. I want to do the best I can for my children	Focus on the baby’s health and development
5b. I want to stay healthy or get healthier	Focus on improvement or maintenance of own health
5c. I don’t want to be fat	Concerns about body weight