OBJECTIVE To explore how birthing and maternity care are understood and valued in a rural community. DESIGN Oral history research. SETTING The rural community of Marathon, Ont, with a population of approximately 3500. PARTICIPANTS A purposive selection of mothers, grandmothers, nurses, physicians, and community leaders in the Marathon medical catchment area. METHODS Interviews were cond...

This study aims to determine the effect of birthing ball on labor pain during first active phase in women giving birth at Kurao maternity clinic, Padang. research uses a quantitative approach with quasi-experimental non-randomized control group pretest-posttest design. The results showed that method intensity 1 before and after being given obtained moderate providing process was 1.80. In contra...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether the risk of severe blood loss is increased in semi-sitting and sitting position, and if so, to which extent blood loss from perineal damage is responsible for this finding. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data from a large trial. SETTING Primary care midwifery practices in the Netherlands. POPULATION About 1646 low-risk women who had a spontaneous vaginal delivery...

In the United States, approximately 35,000 births (0.9%) per year occur in the home. Approximately one fourth of these births are unplanned or unattended. Although the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists believes that hospitals and accredited birth centers are the safest settings for birth, each woman has the right to make a medically informed decision about delivery. Importantl...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(4) Chastity belts Chastity belts have been the subject of schoolroom and music hall humour for as long as most of us can remember. But did they really exist and for the purpose suggested? My research started in 2004 with the purchase of a steel chastity belt (Figures 1 and 2). Made of solid steel with sharp spikes on the groin area, padlock plus k...