Table 2 Topic-list

Feelings during pregnancy

• Could you describe the feelings you experience or have experienced during pregnancy?

• Are there any factors (events, situations) that evoked positive or negative feelings?

• Did you experience changes in the feelings that you experienced during pregnancy? What caused these changes?

• Do you ever feel worried during your pregnancy about the pregnancy itself, or giving birth?

• Are there any factors (events, situations) that made you feel worried?

• Did you experience changes in the extent to which you felt worried? What caused these changes?

• To which extent does your baby occupy your thoughts?

• When you think about your baby, what kind of thoughts and feelings does this bring to your mind?

• Could you describe to which extent these thoughts and feelings have changed during your pregnancy?

Experiences with a third trimester routine ultrasound

• How did you generally experience receiving ultrasounds?

• How did you experience receiving a third trimester routine ultrasound compared to other ultrasounds?

• What aspects of the third trimester routine ultrasound did you experience as positive, or less positive? This may concern the preparation, the ultrasound itself, or the consult afterwards.

• Who accompanied you during the third trimester routine ultrasounds?*

The possible influence of a third trimester routine ultrasound on feelings experienced during pregnancy

• Did the third trimester change your feelings concerning your pregnancy?

• If so, to what extent did the third trimester routine ultrasound affect your worries about your pregnancy?

• To what extent did the third trimester routine ultrasound change your feelings about your baby?

• Imagine that you would not have been offered third trimester routine ultrasounds, how would that have affected you?*