Background there is a dearth of papers in midwifery journals exploring the philosophical
underpinnings of various research methods. However, explaining and justifying particular …

OBJECTIVE: to provide a critical synthesis of published research concerning women's
experiences in choosing where to give birth. METHOD: an integrative literature review was …

Over the past 50 years, two things have changed for women giving birth in high-income
nations; birth has become much safer, and now takes place in hospital rather than at home …

Unconsented episiotomies and other procedures during labour are commonly reported by
women in several countries, and often highlighted in birth activism. Yet, forced caesarean …

There are growing concerns throughout the world about the state of maternity care. This
disquiet is expressed not only in the health professional literature but also in the public …

Policy makers, practitioners and researchers have identified risk as a key concept in relation
to maternity care and childbirth. There is however a lack of research exploring women's …

Objective: To generate greater awareness of the contextual and relational factors that
influence women's capacity to participate in shared decision-making during childbirth …

OBJECTIVE: to describe obese women's experiences of encounters with midwives and
physicians during pregnancy and childbirth. DESIGN: a qualitative study using a …

Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test a model incorporating anxious
attachment, angry temperament, and attempts to control one's partner as predictors of the …

This paper reports on how women prepared for, experienced, and internalised a positive
birth following a traumatic birth event. An interpretive phenomenological approach was …