Publications by authors named "Tine Schauer Eri"

Women usually conceptualize pregnancy as a normal physiological state. In contrast, formal maternity care provision tends to be focused on pathology and risk. The authors aim to explore the extent to which childbearing women apply a sickness lens to pregnancy.

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Objective: To describe what women view as important aspects of care when giving birth in freestanding midwifery-led units in Norway.

Methods: Data from four open-ended questions in the Babies Born Better survey, Version 1, 2 and 3 was used. We performed inductive content analysis to explore and describe women's experiences with the care they received.

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Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have had a major impact on the organization of health services in Europe. Co-parents' experiences of not being allowed to fully participate during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period is poorly understood. We investigated how the non-birthing partner experienced becoming a parent during the pandemic.

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Objective: To explore aspects of intrapartum care that were importanrt for primiparous women who had given birth in large obstetric units in Norway.

Methods: We used data from the Babies Born Better (B3) survey, version 1, which is an international, web-based qualitative survey. We performed a reflexive, thematic analysis of the responses to two questions about descriptions of aspects of positive care and areas of care requiring improvement during the intrapartum period.

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Objective: To investigate the association between women's socioeconomic status and overall childbirth experience and to explore how women reporting an overall negative birth experience describe their experiences of intrapartum care.

Methods: We used both quantitative and qualitative data from the Babies Born Better (B3) survey version 2, including a total of 8317 women. First, we performed regression analyses to explore the association between women's socioeconomic status and labour and birth experience, and then a thematic analysis of three open-ended questions from women reporting a negative childbirth experience (n = 917).

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Background: An important aspect of achieving the provision of woman-centred maternity services is to seek women's experiences of maternity care.

Aim: To explore women's experiences of the care received within the Irish maternity system and to identify aspects of positive care and areas requiring improvement.

Methods: The Babies Born Better pan-European online survey asked open-ended questions on positive aspects of care and aspects of care that could be improved.

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Childbirth has been increasingly concentrated in large centralised hospitals, with a parallel trend toward more birth interventions in Norway. These changes have resulted in new ways of framing birth from: a normal woman's life experience to a medical event. Caring for the birthing mother in a modern centralised ward, take place between two different belief- systems: a biomedical and a phenomenological.

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