&NA;This is the second part of a study designed to investigate the processes, models, and referrants used in the attainment of the maternal role. The design of biological field studies of function in living organisms was used. Patients of the private and university maternity services in two hospitals were the subjects. Subjects were observed for behavior, verbal and nonverbal, in action and interaction, in settings culturally and subjectively appropriate for a woman becoming a mother. Observations were recorded as they occurred so that changes over time were not dependent on the subjects' retrospective analysis or recall. Unstructured interviews, permitting freedom of subject expression and association, were effected by having the interviewer‐observer a recognizable and normal part of the setting. (See, “Attainment of the Maternal Role Part I: Processes,” by Reva Rubin inNursing Research16:237‐245, Summer 1967.)