Women's experiences of their perineum following childbirth: expectations, reality and returning to normality. [PDF]
Women's experiences of their perineum following childbirth: expectations, reality and returning to normality The aim of the study was to explore the feelings, perceptions and experiences of women in relation to their perineum following childbirth in the ...
Way, S.
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Choice in childbirth : psychology, experiences and understanding [PDF]
, 2006 Current policy (DoH 2004a), in response to critiques of the biomedical model of pregnancy, advocates choice and control for women within maternity care and promotes women as active childbirth consumers and decision-makers.
Jomeen, Julie
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Natural childbirth in twentieth century England : a history of alternative approaches to birth from the 1940s to the 1990s. [PDF]
, 2010 PhDIt is well-established that a medical model of childbirth shaped maternity policy during the second half of the twentieth century. However, alongside this narrative of medicalised childbirth, an idea emerged that was to challenge medical hegemony in
Raphael, Amanda-Jane
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A Critical Analysis of the Medical Model as used in the Study of Pregnancy and Childbirth [PDF]
, 2005 One key concept in medical sociology/anthropology for the analysis of approaches to health and illness is the medical model. However, this medical model is not only applied at the analytical level, i.e.
van Teijlingen, Edwin
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Do childbirth confidence, prenatal depression, childbirth knowledge, and spousal support influence childbirth fear in pregnant women? [PDF]
Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing, 2020 Purpose This study investigated levels of childbirth fear and related prenatal factors (self-confidence for childbirth, prenatal depression, knowledge about childbirth, and spousal support) among pregnant women in South Korea.
Hyunjin Cho, Sukhee Ahn
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BMJ Global Health, 2019 How should the WHO most efficiently keep its global recommendations up to date? In this article we describe how WHO developed and applied a ‘living guidelines’ approach to its maternal and perinatal health (MPH) recommendations, based on a systematic and
Anayda Portela +7 more
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Women's experiences of coping with pain during childbirth: A critical review of qualitative research [PDF]
, 2015 Objective To identify and analyse qualitative literature exploring women׳s experiences of coping with pain during childbirth. Design Critical review of qualitative research.
Kiara Lewis +3 more
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The microbiome seeding debate – let’s frame it around women-centred care
Reproductive Health, 2019 In a global culture that is increasingly interested in ecological interventions, probiotics, ‘friendly bacteria’, microbiome preservation/restoration and long-term health, there is growing awareness of the idea of seeding the vaginal microbiome in the ...
A.U. Lokugamage, S.D.C. Pathberiya
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Correlation between Fear of Childbirth and Childbirth Self-Efficacy during Labor
Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2022 Background: The research on fear of childbirth and childbirth self-efficacy of pregnant women in China mainly concentrates on the late pregnancy, and there is a lack of research on the psychology of women during labor. This study aimed to investigate the
Yue Huang +5 more
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The effects of childbirth on the pelvic-floor [PDF]
, 2000 Basically, vaginal delivery is associated with the risk of pelvic floor damage. The pelvic floor sequelae of childbirth includes anal incontinence, urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
Dannecker, Christian +3 more
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