"It's like a puzzle": Pregnant women's perceptions of professional support in midwifery care.

CONCLUSION: Pregnant women prepare for childbirth and parenting by using several different types of professional support in midwifery care: a strategy that could be described as piecing together a puzzle. When the women put the puzzle together, each type of professional support works as a valuable piece in the whole puzzle. Through this, professional support could contribute to women's mental preparedness for childbirth and parenting. PMID: 27199171 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Women Birth - May 15, 2016 Category: Midwifery Authors: Bäckström CA, Mårtensson LB, Golsäter MH, Thorstensson SA Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research