Processing the first birth: Journeying into 'motherland'

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1977-1985

  Dahlen, Hannah G ^a   Barclay, Lesley M ^b   Homer, Caroline SE ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Birth; Midwifery; Nurses; Nursing; Primigravida

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH ORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDWIFE; MOTHER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; BIRTH ORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDWIFERY; MOTHERS; NEW SOUTH WALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955956189     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.03089.x     Document Type: Article

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