Women's experiences of giving birth after 35

Birth

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 16-23

  Windridge, Kate C ^a   Berryman, Julia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; LABOR; LABOR COMPLICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; PAIN; PARITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHERS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PAIN; PARITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0033090564     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536x.1999.00016.x     Document Type: Article

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