Women's choice of positions during labour: Return to the past or a modern way to give birth? A cohort study in Italy

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gizzo, Salvatore ^a,b   Di Gangi, Stefania ^a   Noventa, Marco ^a   Bacile, Veronica ^a   Zambon, Alessandra ^a   Nardelli, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTHING POSITION; CHILDBIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; ITALY; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NUMERIC RATING SCALE SCORE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIMIPARA; RECUMBENCY; WELLBEING; ADOLESCENT; BIRTH; BODY POSTURE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PARTURITION; POSTURE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84901749255     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/638093     Document Type: Article

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