Risk and fear in the lived experience of birth without a midwife

Midwifery

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 29-34

  Plested, Mariamni ^a   Kirkham, Mavis ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear; Freebirth; Risk discourse; Salutogenesis; Unassisted birth

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL STUDY; DEATH; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL CARE; MIDWIFE; MOOD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; TRUST; UNITED KINGDOM; VOICE; WRITING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; NURSE MIDWIFE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDWIFERY; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; RISK; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84959287732     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2016.02.009     Document Type: Article

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