An Italian study involving 426 women late in their first pregnancy looked at fear of childbirth and found that a particular predictor of fear was a troubled couple relationship. In …
Category: Birth partners
A study involving 21 mothers in Melbourne Australia has shown that their experience of birth pain is strongly shaped by the social environment of the birth. Some women interpret pain …
A survey of 100 midwives in the capital city of Nigeria, Abuja, found strong support for women’s partners being birth partners. 91 midwives said they approve of partner presence, 15 …
Guest post by Susan Bradley, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, UK Last year we published a systematic review exploring women’s experiences of maternal health and looked at …
In 1959, Grantly Dick-Read wrote “the totally unprepared man has no place at the birth of his child” in his celebrated book Childbirth without Fear. 57 years later, a Polish …
The Zebra Midwives in Bulgaria offer a fresh view: “birth is a family event”. This echoes a statement by the UK Royal College of Midwives many years ago: “the birth …
The presence of fathers at the birth is not widespread in developing countries, but it is spreading for the same reason that it spread in developed countries: the need for …
The World Health Organisation has just declared that all women should have the right to a birth partner. This is a more sentimental post than our normal reviews of recent …
The WHO Standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn care in health facilities (2016) include two key family inclusive principles: informing families and for women to have birth partners. …
The attendance of fathers at the births of their babies was one of the most radical social changes in developed countries in the 20th century. What triggered this worldwide phenomenon? …