Birthing outside the system: Perceptions of risk amongst Australian women who have freebirths and high risk homebirths

Midwifery

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 561-567

  Jackson, Melanie ^a   Dahlen, Hannah ^a   Schmied, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Freebirth; Homebirth; Intervention; Risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDWIFE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDWIFERY; MOTHERS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PARTURITION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867400500     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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