Addressing transition to motherhood, guideline adherence by midwives in prenatal booking visits: Findings from video recordings.

Objective: To assess if and how primary care midwives adhere to the guideline by addressing transition to motherhood at the first prenatal booking visit and to what extent there was a difference in addressing transition to motherhood between nulliparous and multiparous women.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study of video-recorded prenatal booking visits.

Setting And Participants: 126 video recordings of prenatal booking visits with 18 primary care midwives in the Netherlands taking place between August 2010 and April 2011.