A small Ugandan study, involving interviews with 16 fathers who had been at the birth of their babies, has concluded that if women’s partners are at the birth, they need …
Category: Birth partners
The WHO Standards for Improving the Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in Health Facilities state that healthcare provision “must take into account the preferences and aspirations of individual women …
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 …
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 …