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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Birthing"”.
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Intrapartum birthing pool use in the UK
… which aimed to examine whether intrapartum birthing pool use could make an important contribution to normalising childbirth for low risk women. Maternity stakeholders differ in their views of intrapartum birthing pool use, with some emphasising its potential to reduce interventions and …
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Celebrating the Natural Cycle of Life: A Birthing and Hospice Center
… program for a new architectural project type: a Birthing and Hospice Center. Although the concept may be surprising, once people fully understand that we live in a closed system and embrace the cyclical nature of life, it is an appropriate program that represents another aspect of sustainability. …
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Promoting normal birthing : aspiring to develop a midwife-led scope of practice
… when caring for women and babies during normal birthing. The grounded theory approach of Strauss and Corbin (Corbin & Strauss, 2008; Strauss & Corbin, 1998, 1990) was employed to inform data collection and analysis, including the use of participant observation and in-depth interviews with …
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A Grounded Theory Study of Birthing People’s Decision-Making on Labor Pain Management
… about labor pain management among nulliparous birthing people? and 2) How does the pain management decision develop or change from antepartum to delivery among nulliparous birthing people? Data to address the research questions was collected through semi-structured interviews. Seventeen …
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Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism
<p>Within the last decade, historical and contemporary accounts of midwives, along with the efficacy of the Midwives Model of Care for pregnancy, childbirth and general women's health, have become increasing popular in mainstream publications and documentaries. Yet, very few of these accounts …
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Birthing the Eco: Towards a West African Law on Economic and Monetary Union
This study diagnoses the reasons for the failure to achieve economic and monetary union (EMU) in the Economic Community of West African States. Economists and political scientists have proffered answers to this ‘why’ question from the prisms of their respective disciplines. They argue that the …
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Extended Family Model in Reducing Infant Mortality: Case Study of the Birthing Project USA
<p>The Birthing Project USA is a non-profit organization that works towards helping pregnant women of color improve the birth outcomes of the baby as well the mother. The organization addresses the issue of infant mortality through the extended family model to achieve safe delivery and babies who …
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The Status of Iowa Sleep-Related Infant Mortality: An Evaluation of Safe Sleep Education Delivery, Policy, and Practice in Birthing Hospitals
… sleep education policy and practices in Iowa birthing hospitals. Procedures: An experimental, cross-sectional study design was used to analyze infant mortality data reported by the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner to the Child Death Reporting system from 2004-2012. Analyses included …
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The Status of Iowa Sleep-Related Infant Mortality: An Evaluation of Safe Sleep Education Delivery, Policy, and Practice in Birthing Hospitals
… sleep education policy and practices in Iowa birthing hospitals. Procedures: An experimental, cross-sectional study design was used to analyze infant mortality data reported by the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner to the Child Death Reporting system from 2004-2012. Analyses included …
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Innovation and Advocacy in Perinatal Harm Reduction by Birth Workers and Perinatal Workforce Providers: A Qualitative Study Utilizing Narrative Inquiry
… has created a public health crisis, isolating birthing people away from vital healthcare and social supports and separating families (Bach & Terplan, 2023a; Earnshaw et al., 2024; Kavattur et al., 2023; Merritt, 2020; Ocen, 2017). During the perinatal period, up to approximately 10% of birthing …
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Women, Medicine, and Power: The Social Transformation of Childbirth in Taiwan
… c-sections. I also suggest the establishment of birthing centers to extend birthing women's options. Finally, I argue for the alliance with women's movement for effective childbirth reforms in Taiwan.
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An IPA investigation into the experience of a hypnobirthing birth
… significant emotional and physical challenges to birthing people. The prevalence of psychological trauma due to birth has been reported to occur in 7% of the birthing population, with up to 48% of those who have birthed reportedly finding birth as traumatic. The hypnobirthing method is gaining …
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The politics of practice : case-loading midwifery practice in New Zealand
… they may spend time in clinics or a variety of birthing facilities including smaller primary birthing units or larger obstetric hospitals. They spend their days engaging with childbearing women, their family or supporters and with obstetric, other professional or midwifery colleagues. As they …
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EDUCATION THROUGH SIMULATION
… assignments, and lectures) with the PROMPT Birthing Simulator that allows hands on, interactive learning, and feedback in preparation for the Mother-Baby clinical setting. The first PDSA cycle with Group A revealed 21% were confident in their knowledge with the traditional learning. Post …
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Reproducing Women: Female Bodily Narratives and English Patriarchies, 1600--1660
… levels. In chapter 4, I study representations of birthing room gossip in Thomas Middleton's play, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613), and in three Mistris Parliament pamphlets (1648) that satirize parliamentary power. Across these texts, women's birthing room ""gossip"" comments on and critiques …
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Call me 'at-risk' : maternal health in Sao Paulo's public health clinics and the desire for cesarean technology
… access to caesarean technology during their birthing process, in order to avoid the discrimination and physical abuse often associated with a vaginal delivery. I suggest that experiences of riscos, or riskiness, bear heavily on women's pragmatic adoption of interventionist birthing. Riscos, …
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Women's Postpartum Experiences
… but there is little to no research on women’s birthing experiences and its impact on daily routines. This paper will reveal themes related to postpartum experiences and the impact on occupations for women who have given birth in the last six months. This qualitative study, using a convenience …
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Envisioning maternal health practice through antiracist feminisms
… maternal morbidities, disproportionately affect birthing parents of color, queer parents, and low-income parents in comparison to white, cisgender, heterosexual, financially-privileged parents. My master's thesis examines how hegemonic cultural ideology surrounding motherhood in the United States …
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He Kanohi Kitea Ka Hoki Ngā Mahara: Ngāti Porou kuia tell the stories encompassing their childbirth experiences
… Porou kuia shared the stories of their life and birthing. Their laughter, tears, humor, wisdom and memories exposed awareness to the complexities of Māori thought and the interconnected nature of this knowing. These kuia were all born between 1931 and 1941 therefore their perspective spanned from …
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