Women have traditionally been high users of complementary therapies and use of these therapies continues during pregnancy and birthing. While women look to acupuncture and other therapies to support them during this time, traditional maternity services are in a state of change. In Australia, there is an increase in births, a workforce crisis, an increase in birthing in labour ward settings, few...

OBJECTIVE The objective our study was to compare the respective effects of water and traditional delivery on birthing women and newborns. PATIENTS AND METHODS 120 primiparas with singlet pregnancy, head-down foetus position, and term delivery were randomly divided into two groups. Sixty birthing women were included in traditional delivery group, while other sixty women underwent water deliver...

The human pelvis plays important functional roles in locomotion and in the birthing of babies. The pelvis acts as a rigid lever during two-legged (bipedal) locomotion, which allows us to stabilize our hip and trunk when body weight is supported on a single leg, and it also operates to effectively transmit body weight from the trunk to the support leg. The pelvis is also important to human birth...

Investigating childbirth, one of the biggest moments of a woman’s life, this thesis examines the reasons behind women’s preferred birthing methods. This research explores the fundamental decisions women make during the birthing process: the amount of prenatal care mothers will receive, the type of health care provider they will use, picking the place of delivery, views on technological and medi...

The American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) is a multidisciplinary membership organization dedicated to the birth center model of care. This article reviews the history, membership, and current policy initiatives of the AABC. The history of AABC includes the promotion of research, education, and national and state policies that are supportive of birth center care. Current AABC priorities a...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to test the feasibility and acceptability of introducing an intervention to address mothers' and fathers' smoking during the postpartum hospitalization. METHODS During a 14-month period (February 2005 to April 2006), we assessed the smoking status of both parents of all newborns who were delivered at a hospital child birth center. Parents who were cur...

This exploration's center target is to comprehend the ramifications of specialized data improve HR for organizations in Indonesia. Thus, we gathered information from challenged distributions 2010 2021. After was gathered, investigated it with a phenomenological approach so that responses examination were gotten legitimate and reliable standards. Before can get discoveries current information, s...