3 results match your criteria: "The New Zealand College of Midwives[Affiliation]"

The emotional journey of labour-women's perspectives of the experience of labour moving towards birth.

Midwifery

March 2014

Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2700, Australia.

Background: there has been minimal exploration of women's emotional flow during labour and towards birth. This research aimed to capture woman's remembered experiences of this process.

Method: a critical feminist standpoint methodology guided this research which used in depth interviews to explore the perspectives of 18 women who had experienced a spontaneous labour and birth.

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Women's perspectives of the stages and phases of labour.

Midwifery

January 2013

Practice Advice and Research Development, The New Zealand College of Midwives, PO Box 21 106, Christchurch 8143, New Zealand.

Background: within childbirth there is a common and widely known explanation of labour and birth which describes and defines the birth process as stages and phases. The aim of this research was to determine whether the discourse of labour as stages and phases resonated with women who had experienced spontaneous labour and birth.

Method: a critical feminist standpoint methodology was used to explore the perspectives of 18 New Zealand women through in-depth, one to one, interviews.

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