Experience of pain and analgesia with water and land births

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-133

  Eberhard, Jakob ^a   Stein, Sonja ^a   Geissbuehler, Verena ^a  

^a Kantonsspital Frauenfeld   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Bed birth; Labor pain; Maia stool birth; Water birth

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BED BIRTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG USE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABOR; LABOR PAIN; LAND BIRTH; MAIA STOOL BIRTH; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIMIGRAVIDA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WATER BIRTH;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR PAIN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; PREGNANCY; WATER;

EID: 22144496113     PISSN: 0167482X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443610400023080     Document Type: Article

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