Keeping Birth Normal: Research Findings on Midwifery Care During Childbirth

Kennedy, Holly Powell; Shannon, Maureen

doi:10.1177/0884217504268971

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“…Being open to the nonrational in midwifery practice makes room for midwives to selfreflexively acknowledge aspects of themselves, such as their fears, in a way that does not interfere with their practice (56). During birth, making room for the nonrational broadens both midwives' and women's knowledge about trust, courage and their own intuitive abilities including the changing capabilities of bodies (7).…”

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Including the nonrational is sensible midwifery

Parratt

Fahy

2008

Women and Birth

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Section: Making Room For the Nonrational In Midwiferymentioning

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Including the nonrational is sensible midwifery

Parratt

Fahy

2008

Women and Birth

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“…Many factors such as people's attitude, social background, educational values and past experiences also affect shared decision-making and should be respected by midwives. [12192223242526] Noseworthy et al . [22] reported that the quality communication between midwives and women plays a vital role in selecting a midwife.…”

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“…[11] Midwifery care is defined as a constant, personal, and sensitive service during the entire childbirth process[3] that should substitute women's fears with control and self-confidence. [12] To this end, a woman's right to participate in decisions regarding her health and care should be the cornerstone of all midwifery care. Then, adequate information should be provided for women by skilled professionals.…”

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Respect for woman′s decision-making in spontaneous birth: A thematic synthesis study

MirzaeeRabor¹,

Mirzaee²,

Mirzaiinajmabadi³

et al. 2016

Iranian J Nursing Midwifery Res

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Background:Participation of woman in decision-making processes is one of the key indicators of an appropriate relationship between a woman and the health care professionals. This study aimed to recognize the factors facilitating respect for woman's decision-making in spontaneous birth.Materials and Methods:This paper employed a meta-synthesis on articles published in four biomedical databases including MEDLINE, Web of Science, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library. All qualitative studies published after 1990 and directly or indirectly discussing the women's and the health care professional's attitudes toward respect for woman's decision-making in spontaneous birth were searched. Of 5372 citations, 95 full-text papers were considered, of which 14 satisfied the inclusion criteria.Results:In this meta-synthesis, initial codes were obtained through meticulous, line-by-line coding of the findings of the primary studies. Then, thematic synthesis was performed on the codes to search for concepts, and 20 descriptive themes were obtained in the second stage. Finally, through an inductive process, five new interpretations were obtained in the last stage of the thematic synthesis. These interpretations included confidence to health care providers, the central role of midwives in maintenance of women's dignity, childbirth as a natural phenomenon, the impact of contextual conditions, and the political and human factors affecting the delivery management and women seek place of safety for childbirth.Conclusions:Studies suggested that midwifes have a central role in maintenance of women's dignity and their experience of childbirth.

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“…It is essential that nursing faculty continue to teach students how to support the normalcy of birth through learned attitudes, behaviors, skills, and clinical strategies for caring for childbearing women (Kennedy & Shannon, 2004). One nurse educator in our study noted that nursing students may be making decisions in the future about their own birthing options or influencing the decisions of family members and, thus, failure to teach evidence-based birth practices affects not only the women these students will care for but also their own birth choices.…”

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Teaching Physiologic Birth in Maternal–Newborn Courses in Undergraduate Nursing Programs: Current Challenges

Sanchez-Birkhead¹,

Callister²,

Fletcher³

et al. 2012

J Perinat Educ

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For low-risk childbearing women, fewer technological interventions are associated with better physical and psychosocial outcomes; yet, the number of unmedicated physiologic births is decreasing. As a result, fewer undergraduate nursing students experience caring for women who choose physiologic birth, which presents a challenge for nurse educators and implications for preparing students to provide appropriate care for all childbearing women after the students graduate. This exploratory descriptive qualitative study was conducted among 150 randomly selected undergraduate nursing programs in the United States to explore the challenges of educating nursing students about low-intervention birth. Four themes described current challenges: lack of placement opportunities, education versus clinical practice, evidence-based support of physiologic birth, and the need for more research on pedagogical strategies that effectively educate future nurses to advocate for minimal intervention birth options for all women.

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Keeping Birth Normal: Research Findings on Midwifery Care During Childbirth

Cited by 61 publications

References 12 publications

Including the nonrational is sensible midwifery

Including the nonrational is sensible midwifery

Respect for woman′s decision-making in spontaneous birth: A thematic synthesis study

Teaching Physiologic Birth in Maternal–Newborn Courses in Undergraduate Nursing Programs: Current Challenges

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