background & aim: to decrease the rate of caesarean section, complicated intervention for changing behaviors are required. the present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness education on anxiety, fear of delivery, pain catastrophizing, and selecting caesarean section as the delivery method among nulliparous pregnant women who referred to ziaeian hospital. methods & mat...

Objectives. Hospital fear and avoidance of the routine hospital obstetrical interventions cause some women with low-risk pregnancies to spend most of the active labor period at home, and subsequently they present to the hospital for delivery. Our aim was to analyze the maternal and neonatal outcomes of pregnancies with a planned hospital birth, yet spending the first stage of labor at home with...

BACKGROUND: Although the debate on the safety and women's right of choice to a home delivery vs. hospital delivery continues in the developed countries, an undesirable outcome of home delivery, such as high maternal and perinatal mortality, is documented in developing countries. The objective was to study whether socio-economic factors, distance to maternity hospital, ethnicity, type and size o...

Background Childbirth affects the quality of mother–neonate attachment after delivery. The aim of this study was to compare the quality of mother–infant attachment in physiological delivery with non-physiological delivery after birth. Materials and Methods A case-control study was conducted on 60 women (n = 30 non- physiological delivery, 30 physiological delivery) referred to Shahid YahyaNejad...

OBJECTIVE To assess the secular trend in length of hospital stay for healthy newborns with birth weight >or= 2,500 g in a large maternity hospital of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS In this descriptive, analytical, retrospective study, data were collected from 5,001 live births from 1951 to 2000. Studied variables were length of hospital stay, birth weight, maternal age, type of...

BACKGROUND In the context of maternity service, the mother's assessment of quality is central because emotional, cultural and respectful supports are vital during labour and the delivery process. This study compared client-perceived quality of maternity services between birth centres, public and private hospitals in a central hills district of Nepal. METHODS A cohort of 701 pregnant women of ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of elective induction on the risk of cesarean delivery in a cohort of women with low-risk term pregnancies and to evaluate the costs of elective induction services within our hospital system. METHODS Records of 1135 eligible women with low-risk, singleton, vertex pregnancies at 38-41 weeks' gestation who were eligible for vaginal delivery were analyzed retro...