Midwife-led institutions, also called free-standing birth centres, offer assistance to women at low risk for complications. Free-standing because they are the institutions that provide intervention assistance, present possibility conduct research on skills and knowledge necessary safe care who complications desiring an out-of-hospital birth. The aim of this study is reveal births in centres Ger...

OBJECTIVE Evidence-based instruments to evaluate the preferences and experiences of future parents regarding prenatal counseling for congenital anomaly tests are currently lacking. We developed the quality of care through clients' eyes prenatal questionnaire (QUOTE(prenatal) ), a client-centered instrument, and assessed its components. Furthermore, the QUOTE(prenatal) was used to provide insigh...

What is the best way for first-time parents to prepare for childbirth? Overwhelmingly, women and their partners value formal childbirth education classes, books, and the emerging Internetbased resources. Do these sources meet the needs of first-time parents? We conducted an online survey of 120 participants. We found that participants that had nobody present for continuous support during labor ...