The effect of backup midwife on maternal experience after vaginal childbirth - a qualitative study

One of the goals of reproductive health enhancement is to ensure the desired experience of safe childbirth by reducing possible complications, fears, and worries about delivery by ongoing midwife backup care. This study explains women's experiences with a backup midwife during labor and childbi...

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Published in:Journal of medicine and life 2022-04, Vol.15 (4), p.539-546
Main Authors: Khodarahmi, Shiva, Hajian, Sepideh, Zare, Elham, Nasiri, Malihe
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Breastfeeding & lactation
Childbirth & labor
Confidence
Content analysis
Delivery, Obstetric
Empowerment
Female
Humans
Interviews
Midwifery
Midwifery education
Mothers
Original
Parturition
Physiology
Pregnancy
Qualitative Research
Quality of Health Care
Sample size
Software
Vagina
Womens health
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Summary:One of the goals of reproductive health enhancement is to ensure the desired experience of safe childbirth by reducing possible complications, fears, and worries about delivery by ongoing midwife backup care. This study explains women's experiences with a backup midwife during labor and childbirth. This was a qualitative study involving 19 women who had natural childbirth in Hamadan, 2020. Purposeful sampling and data collection were performed using semi-structured in-depth interviews. Data were analyzed by conventional content analysis using MAXQDA software version 10. Data analysis showed three themes and six main categories. The themes included security, high-quality care, and respectful care, consisting of two main categories of perceived empowerment and support, physiological approach and reassuring care, and respect for the mother's privacy and optimal accountability. The presence of a backup midwife during labor caused a sense of security, control, and perceived empowerment, thus a positive childbirth experience. Therefore, it is necessary to train and employ midwifery in the healthcare system. It is recommended to train and employ midwifery graduates for this purpose and include it as one of the basic principles in the current planning to promote natural childbirth.
ISSN:1844-122X
1844-3117
1844-3117
DOI:10.25122/jml-2021-0072