Childbirth will cause feelings of anxiety for a mother who has never given birth at all. Labor can be passed comfortably through the provision methods that help speed up delivery process. One them is birthing ball method. This research was conducted to find out effect balls on duration second period labor Mitra Sehat Mandiri Clinic in Sidoarjo. The with an analytic design quasi-experimental sam...

Substantial research documents health consequences of neighborhood disadvantage. Patterns residential mobility that differ by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) may sort non-Hispanic (NH) Black low-SES families into disadvantaged neighborhoods. In this study, we leverage a sibling-linked dataset to track among birthing persons between pregnancies investigate baseline characteristics ...

OBJECTIVE around 50% of women report symptoms that indicate some aspect of their childbirth experience was 'traumatic', and at least 3.1% meet diagnosis for PTSD six months post partum. Here we aimed to conduct a prospective longitudinal study and examine predictors of birth-related trauma - predictors that included a range of pre-event factors - as a first step in the creation of a screening q...

Professional maternity care organizations within the United States are aligned in the goal to prevent the first cesarean birth in nulliparous women with a term, singleton, vertex fetus. Currently, one in 3 women are at risk for having a cesarean birth. The most common reason for cesarean in the United States is labor dystocia. The evidence supports delaying admission to the birthing unit until ...

BACKGROUND Despite clear evidence regarding how social determinants of health and structural inequities shape health, Aboriginal women's birth outcomes are not adequately understood as arising from the historical, economic and social circumstances of their lives. The purpose of this study was to understand rural Aboriginal women's experiences of maternity care and factors shaping those experien...

UNLABELLED SUMMARY/OBJECTIVES: In accordance with the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing's (JCIH, 2000) position statement regarding Universal Newborn Hearing Screenings (UNHS), the state of Illinois enacted legislation requiring all birthing hospitals to conduct UNHS by 31 December 2002. Currently 100% of birthing facilities in the state of Illinois perform newborn infant hearing screenings usi...

Across Australia, comprehensive maternity services in rural and remote areas are becoming a scarcity and yet it is in these areas that the fertility rate is the highest1. Consultations suggest that many women, particularly Indigenous women, would prefer to give birth closer to home and many government sponsored documents recommend changing current models of care2,3,4,5,6,7. Nationally, maternit...