Background: One of efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality is childbirth assistance by health workers. In reality in the field the community do not fully trust health workers as childbirth helpers, they prefer traditional birth attendance as childbirth helpers. There is still childbirth assistance by non-health workers (traditional birth attendance), therefore the provision of communication, information and education (CIE) must still be provided in various ways including through social media, one of them is Whatsapp. Health counseling through video media has advantages in terms of providing good visualization to facilitate the process of knowledge absorption Methods: This study is a Quasy Experimental, it use one-group pretest posttest design. Research took place in the working area of Kalumpang Community Health Center, Ternate city. The study sample included 31 pregnant women who met the inclusion criteria. Data analysis using SPSS statistics version 25 with a paired sample t test Results: The results of that study there is an increase in knowledge from pretest to posttest after being given educational intervention through whatsapp video about childbirth, with a p-value = 0.000. There was an increase in attitude after being given educational intervention through whatsapp video about childbirth (p-value = 0.000). Conclusion:The provision of whatsapp video-based education becomes an alternative and successful in providing health information (preparation for childbirth).

The first stage of labor is the longest duration compared to the second, third, and fourth stages. At this time requires extra energy because contractions occur that cause feelings of fear, anxiety, and excessive stress, triggering the release of non-epinephrine hormones that inhibit the work of oxytocin so that it can prolong the first stage of labor. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between family support and the midwives’s motivation for the first stage of labor progress in an Independent Midwifery Practice within working area of Kalumata Public Health Center, Ternate City. The population is woman who during the first stage of labor in an Independent Midwifery Practice in Ternate City. There were 30 samples in this research that have been selected by using quota sampling technique. The data were collected by using questionnaires and partographs. The results of multivariate analysis using logistic regression showed that the two independent variables, family support and midwife's motivation when correlated multivariate together showed that had not relationship with the progress of the first stage of labor with the significant value equal to 0,05 and more than 0,05 is 0,999.The progress of labor is multifactorial that related with each other and not independent. Although the woman had received support from her family and motivation from the midwife, if her self efficacy was low, that can make  anxiety and increased intervention in labor. Support in labor should be a standard procedure that is planned to be provided by midwife to pregnant woman and their families before the signs and symptoms that labor has begun.