To be soft again: A phenomenological study of uncertainty and resilience in childbearing during the COVID-19 pandemic

When considering the complexity of women's lives in contemporary society along with the demands of motherhood to facilitate a deeply felt resilience resulting in well-being, interventions must be multi-pronged to lessen the pressures to be a <i>superwoman</i> and/or supermom and change the norm on a societal level for childbearing persons to have the option to be <i>soft again</i>.