Problem Childbirth experience can have long-lasting effects on maternal wellbeing. Background Positive childbirth experiences may strengthen maternal self-confidence, in contrast, negativeexperiences may promote a ...

Background: The fear of childbirth can range from apprehension to intense fear (tokophobia), with serious consequences for maternal health. Therefore, a standardized scale is needed to measure the fear of childbirth before ...

Background: Women’s engagement in healthcare decision-making during childbirth has been increasingly emphasised as a priority in maternity care, since it increases satisfaction with the childbirth experience and provides ...

With the data collected in the swine farm of the College of Medicine Veterinary and Animal Science, in the period of 1997 to 2007, the effect of childbirth order (CBO), season of childbirth (SCB), year of childbirth (YCB) ...

This study aimed to analyze the perspective of women who used the childbirth plan on their childbirth experience, the meanings of the childbirth plan and its components, and the relationship between the childbirth plan and ...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the quality of the attendance to the childbirth in the public hospitals and hospitals private contracted out by SUS in Goiânia, in the year of 2007. METHODOLOGY: I study descriptive analytical, where ...

During the sixteenth century, the act of giving birth was understood as being essentialy female; that is, women were responsible for providing emotional support to other women, helping them to give birth in their own homes. ...

Introduction: The study demonstrates the evolution of the training of Midwives in Chile to provide quality humanized health care to women throughout their life course in the area of sexual, reproductive and newborn health. ...