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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: childbirth + women + happier  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/19/2008)


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… , Experiences, and Psychological Outcomes of Childbirth: A Prospective Study of 825 Women -
JM Green, VA Coupland, JV Kitzinger - Birth, 1990 - Blackwell Synergy
... (BIRTH 17:1, March 1990) Many assumptions are made about what women want and expect
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[PDF] The technocratic body: American childbirth as cultural expression -
RE Davis-Floyd - Social Science and Medicine, 1994 - davis-floyd.com
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Education for Childbirth: A Time for Change -
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Postnatal Quality of Life Assessment: Introducing the Mother-Generated Index -
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Psychological health before, during, and after childbirth
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Breast-feeding and maternal mental well-being among Bangladeshi and Pakistani women in north-east … -
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THE EXPERIENCE OF CHILDBIRTH AND HOSPITAL STAY AMONGST ARABIC-SPEAKING IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN AUSTRALIA
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Women happier with childbirth when accompanied

Last Updated: 2007-07-27 8:18:19 -0400 (Reuters Health)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who go through labor and childbirth with a companion of their choice are more satisfied with the experience, and the care they receive, than women who deliver alone, Brazilian researchers report.

Furthermore, the presence of a companion did not create any safety issues, In fact, women with a companion on hand were about half as likely as unaccompanied women to have amniotic fluid stained with fetal stool -- meconium -- which can be dangerous to infants if it is inhaled.

While having a companion to provide support during labor and delivery is accepted practice in much of the world, many health facilities do not allow companions or discourage their presence, Dr. Odalea M. Bruggemann of the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis and her colleagues note. This is especially common in the developing world, they add.

Bruggemann and her team randomly assigned 212 women to solo labor or labor with a companion of their choice, to compare childbirth experiences.

About half of the accompanied woman (47 percent) chose their partner or the child's father, while 30 percent chose their mother and 23 percent chose another female relative or a friend.

The women who received support from a companion were significantly more satisfied with labor and delivery than those who went through childbirth alone. They were eight times more likely to be satisfied with their labor experience and nearly six times as likely to be satisfied with delivery.

The accompanied women were also more satisfied with their medical care and medical guidance during labor and delivery. "Perhaps because there was someone else in the room, medical staff were more forthcoming and user-friendly than when no support person was present," the researchers note in their report in the online journal Reproductive Health.

Women with companions were 49 percent less likely to have amniotic fluid stained with meconium than women who delivered on their own. This may have been because they were less anxious and fearful, Bruggemann and her team suggest.

"If on one hand there is a general belief that a labor companion has always positive effects, there are, on the other hand, still a lot of health facilities where companions are not allowed, especially in developing settings," the researchers write. "It is expected that the results of this study could help providers to acknowledge and respect women's rights during birth."

SOURCE: Reproductive Health, July 6, 2007.

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