“Engaging with birth stories in pregnancy: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of women’s experiences across two generations”

Abstract Background The birth story has been widely understood as a crucial source of knowledge about childbirth. What has not been reported is the effect that birth stories may have on primigravid women’s understandings of birth. Findings are presented from a qualitative study exploring how two gen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lesley Kay, Soo Downe, Gill Thomson, Kenny Finlayson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12884-017-1476-4