Birth setting, transfer and maternal sense of control: results from the DELIVER study
Open Access
- 17 January 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Vol. 14 (1), 27
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-14-27
Abstract
In the Netherlands, low risk women receive midwife-led care and can choose to give birth at home or in hospital. There is concern that transfer of care during labour from midwife-led care to an obstetrician-led unit leads to negative birth experiences, in particular among those with planned home birth. In this study we compared sense of control, which is a major attribute of the childbirth experience, for women planning home compared to women planning hospital birth under midwife-led care. In particular, we studied sense of control among women who were transferred to obstetric-led care during labour according to planned place of birth: home versus hospital.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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