"Trying to give birth naturally was out of the question": Accounting for intervention in childbirth.

CONCLUSION: The experience of medical intervention in childbirth is routinely oriented to as a matter that requires explanation or account in online birth narratives. Women repeatedly referred to their preference to avoid intervention, but described being unable to do so in hospital.
PMID: 29731383 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Women Birth - May 3, 2018 Category: Midwifery Authors: Cole L, LeCouteur A, Feo R, Dahlen H Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research