First-time mothers’ expectations of the unknown territory of childbirth: uncertainties, coping strategies and ‘going with the flow’

Borrelli, Sara E.; Walsh, Denis; Spiby, Helen

doi:10.1016/j.midw.2018.04.022

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‘You are only in early labour, you are not in active labour yet': midwives' language and behaviour and the meaning women make of it (2018)
Journal Article

First-time mothers’ expectations of the unknown territory of childbirth: uncertainties, coping strategies and ‘going with the flow’ (2018)
Journal Article

Objective. To explore first-time mothers’ expectations of labour and birth, coping strategies they adopt during pregnancy towards childbirth and coping strategies they expect to use during labour and birth. Design. A qualitative Straussian grounde... Read More about First-time mothers’ expectations of the unknown territory of childbirth: uncertainties, coping strategies and ‘going with the flow’.