Hospital births were introduced to India during the colonial period but became a popular option during the 1960s. Today they have replaced "traditional" home birth among the urban middle classes, and a significant proportion of hospital births are elective Caesarean sections. In this article I examine this mode of birth in the context of specific marital and residential patterns and cross-gener...

This article presents findings from a study on women's delivery care-seeking in two regions of Guinea. We explored exposure to interventions promoting birth preparedness and complication readiness among women with recent live births and stillbirths. Using multivariate regression models, we identified factors associated with women's knowledge and practices related to birth preparedness, as well ...

The article discusses the fear of pregnancy and childbirth as a multidimensional subjective phenomenon. It is noted that phenomenon associated not only with period expectation child (or) preparation for childbirth, but also existential experience arises in subject outside partnership context procreation, which recorded from fertile age. However, contributes to understanding concretisation this ...