Childbirth and Child Rearing with Midwives

Midwives' support needs as childbirth changes.

This paper reports on midwives' support needs as they were described by midwives in a large study of the supervision of midwives in England. The data are derived from six sites: five, very different, National Health Service (NHS) sites, and one composed of midwives outside the NHS. In-depth, ethnographic interviews were conducted with 168 midwives and a grounded theory approach was used for the...

Child-rearing and children's empathy

The Relationship of Childbirth Experience with Mother-Infant Bonding and Child\'s Growth and Development

Abstract Introduction: The negative experience of childbirth has many consequences for the mother and the baby. This study analyzed the relationship of childbirth experience with mother-infant bonding and the child's growth and development. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the participants were 216 eligible women selected from all health centers in Zanjan City, Iran (36 h...

Childbirth and Maternal Mortality in Morocco: The Role of Midwives

Amina, a 20 year-old woman, living in a small rural village of Morocco, is expecting her first baby. Her labour started when she was at term while her husband was far away; her mother-in-law was assisting her. After almost 24 hours of difficult labour, seeing the distress that Amina was going through, the mother-in-law called for her second son in order to help for a transfer to the nearest vil...

Motherhood in the Old South: pregnancy, childbirth, and infant rearing

YANNINCK RIPA, Women and madness: the incarceration of women in nineteenth-century France, transl. Catherine du Peloux Menage, Feminist Perspective Series, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1990, pp. 175, £29.50 (0-7456-0454-4). We meet a parapraxis on p. 86: "There is a clear analogy to be drawn between asylums and hospitals and indeed it was a truism for the madwoman." Read asylums and pris...