Psychology and Labour Experience: Birth as a Peak Experience

Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 191-211

  Thompson, Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'the value of connections' women and health professional relationships in positive birth; Exploring women's lived experiences and positive birth experiences; Human experiences of understanding and interpretation and person centred approach; Mind body connectedness and psychological responses, and transcendental experience; National Health Service (NHS) and consultant midwife in after birth services; Positive birth scenarios clinical practices and procedures to suit the labouring woman; Psychology and labour experience birth being a peak experience; Supportive birth companion effective forms of intervention in childbirth; Transformative nature of childbirth; Women's experiences and internalisations of positive birth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885552455     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317701.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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