The experience of planned home birth: Views of the first 500 women

Birth

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 297-304

  Janssen, Patricia A ^a   Henderson, Angela D ^b   Vedam, Saraswathi ^c  

^a School of Population and Public Health   (United States)

^b MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Home birth; Labor; Midwifery; Postpartum; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CANADA; CHOREOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EMPOWERMENT; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOME; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MIDWIFE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKILL; TIME; TRUST;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; MOTHERS; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POSTNATAL CARE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 70450265516     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2009.00357.x     Document Type: Article

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