Gibson E. Women, birth practitioners, and models of pregnancy and birth-does consensus exist?
Health Care Women Int 2013;
35:149-74. [PMID:
23909375 DOI:
10.1080/07399332.2013.810219]
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Abstract
Women have differing beliefs about pregnancy and birth, and will be more suited to one type of practitioner versus another, depending on whether they believe that birth is a natural or a medical event. I hypothesize that if women and their practitioners have similar explanatory models, then the women may experience a better relationship with their practitioners, resulting in greater understanding of birth expectations, leading to improvements in experience and outcomes. In this article I explore how differing beliefs constitute identifiable models that can be distinguished as aligning with the midwifery model versus the medical model of birth.
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