Just another ordinary bad birth? A narrative analysis of first time mothers' traumatic birth experiences

Health Care for Women International
Helen Murphy, Joanna Strong

Abstract

A difficult birth experience can have long lasting psychological effects on both mother and baby and this study details four in-depth accounts of first time mothers who described their birth experience as traumatizing. Narrative analysis was used to record discrepancies between the ideal and the real and produced narrative accounts that highlighted how these mothers felt invisible and dismissed in a medical culture of engineering obstetrics. Participants also detailed how their birth experience could be improved and this is set in context alongside current recommendations in maternal health care and the complexities of delivering such care in UK health settings.

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Oct 7, 2020·Women and Birth : Journal of the Australian College of Midwives·Kristy WatsonAlana Hewitt

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