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Effective communication, respectful language and compassionate behaviour are vital elements within maternity care for midwives to develop trusting relationships with childbearing women and their families. This paper reports examples of midwives’ negative language and behaviour during childbirth, that were perceived as uncaring by first-time mothers...
Objective:
To explore first-time mothers' expectations of labour and birth, coping strategies they adopt during pregnancy towards childbirth and coping strategies they expect to use during labour and birth.
Design:
A qualitative Straussian grounded theory methodology was adopted, with data collected through semi-structured interviews in the thir...
Effective communication, respectful language and compassionate behaviour are vital elements within maternity care for midwives to develop trusting relationships with
childbearing women and their families. This paper reports examples of midwives’ negative language and behaviour during childbirth, that were perceived as uncaring by first-time mothers...
Aim:
To explore first-time pregnant women's expectations and factors influencing their choice of birthplace.
Background:
Although outcomes and advantages for low-risk childbearing women giving birth in midwifery-led units and home compared with obstetric units have been investigated previously, there is little information on the factors that inf...
AIM: To explore first-time mothers’ expectations and experiences of being cared for by an unknown midwife and their perceptions around continuity of carer during childbirth. DESIGN: Qualitative Straussian grounded theory methodology. SETTING: Three National Health Service Trusts in England providing maternity care that offered women the possibility...
there is a dearth of papers in midwifery journals exploring the philosophical underpinnings of various research methods. However, explaining and justifying particular ontological and epistemological positions gives coherence and credibility to chosen research methods.
to explore and explain the philosophical underpinning of critical realism and arg...
Introduction:
the use of water immersion for labour and birth has been shown to be beneficial for women in normal labour (Cluett et al, 2009). It was decided to use problem solving coordinator workshops to change in the way waterbirth practice was promoted and organised on labour ward. Findings from the first Action Research phase (Russell, 2011)...
The purpose of this metasynthesis is to describe and interpret qualitative research relating to midwife-led care to see if it sheds light on why low-risk women experience fewer birth interventions within this model of care. Eleven articles were included in the review. Three themes emerged: (a) relationally mediated benefits for women that resulted...
It was nearly a decade ago that Mary Newburn and I wrote two papers on the application of a social model to the different phases of maternity care (Walsh and Newburn, 2002a; 2002b). Since then, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published national guidelines in all three areas of antenatal, intra-partum and postnat...
Modern childbirth has been appropriated by the biomedical model, such that clinical parameters, not social process, dominate its every phase. An exploration of a social model will assist in reconnecting and integrating childbirth phases with its traditionally strong sociocultural base. This requires a shift in values and an orientation to wellbeing...
Though critiques of the biomedical model of childbirth have served to highlight the shortcoming of present-day maternity services, writing on an alternative social model is less developed. Specifically, contrasting beliefs within each model and how that is applied requires more reflection. These two articles suggests how the social model of birth m...
to compare the effects of partnership caseload midwifery care, with conventional team midwifery care. Comparisons of labour interventions and birth outcomes were made between the two models of care.
a prospective, non-randomised clinical trial.
Women's Hospital at Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK in 1998.
303 women from the experimental gro...
