Women and BirthPub Date : 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101930
Khitam Ibrahem Mohammad , Doha Ababneh , Mohammad Khaled Alafi , Mohammed Albashtawy , Abdullah Alkawaldeh , Asem Abdalrahim , Kamil Fram , Debra Creedy
{"title":"Practice and knowledge of umbilical cord clamping of terms infants among midwives and obstetricians in Jordan: A national study","authors":"Khitam Ibrahem Mohammad , Doha Ababneh , Mohammad Khaled Alafi , Mohammed Albashtawy , Abdullah Alkawaldeh , Asem Abdalrahim , Kamil Fram , Debra Creedy","doi":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101930","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101930","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>The absence of clinical guidelines on umbilical cord clamping may hinder evidence-based practice by midwives and obstetricians in Jordan.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To investigate current practices and knowledge among midwives and obstetricians regarding umbilical cord clamping for term infants and the influence of socio-demographic and professional factors.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted with 274 midwives and 51 obstetricians from 25 public hospitals that provide intrapartum care in Jordan. A paper-based questionnaire assessed current practices and knowledge regarding umbilical cord clamping.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Most midwives and obstetricians (69.8 %) reported routinely performing early cord clamping for term infants (within < 1 minute of childbirth). Around 61 % of participants reported poor knowledge regarding the benefits of delayed cord clamping. While participants with Bachelor and higher degree level education achieved higher knowledge scores, age was inversely correlated. Participants aged over 30 years, with more than 5 years’ experience, diploma level qualifications, obstetricians, and those with poor knowledge were more likely to perform early cord clamping.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Around two-thirds of midwives and obstetricians reported poor knowledge regarding the benefits of delayed cord clamping and were more likely to perform early cord clamping. Results highlight the need for national guidelines in Jordan in conjunction with continued education and training regarding umbilical cord clamping.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48868,"journal":{"name":"Women and Birth","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 101930"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144123604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and BirthPub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101928
Kirsten Small , Chanelle Warton , Zoe Bradfield , Kathleen Baird , Jennifer Fenwick , Caroline Homer
{"title":"A snapshot of Australian midwifery: A workforce survey","authors":"Kirsten Small , Chanelle Warton , Zoe Bradfield , Kathleen Baird , Jennifer Fenwick , Caroline Homer","doi":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101928","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101928","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Midwives are the largest professional group in Australian maternity services. Understanding the current midwifery workforce and the issues midwives face is important for workforce planning.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>Provide detailed understandings of the current Australian midwifery workforce, including potential attrition rates.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Descriptive cross-sectional online survey of registered midwives.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>3286 midwives contributed to the data. Respondents most commonly reported their gender as woman, were aged 40 – 59, worked part-time, and practised in a metropolitan setting. Only 11.8 % of midwives worked in roles where they might provide continuity of midwifery care, yet 37.5 % expressed an interest in working in midwifery group practice. One third (36.6 %) were considering leaving midwifery, for reasons mostly related to their workplace. Poor workplace culture, understaffing, over-medicalisation, and being unable to provide safe midwifery care were commonly reported concerns.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>This is the largest survey of the Australia midwifery workforce. While most midwives worked in clinical roles in the public sector, the range of roles was extremely diverse. Potential attrition rates are high, which would have a devastating impact on safe maternity care provision in Australia. More midwives want to work in continuity of midwifery carer models than are currently doing so.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Urgent action to improve midwifery workplaces is required to retain midwives and encourage greater workforce participation. Increasing midwifery student intakes, removing barriers to employment in flexible continuity of midwifery carer roles, and improving working conditions will contribute to a stronger future for the Australian midwifery workforce.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48868,"journal":{"name":"Women and Birth","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 101928"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and BirthPub Date : 2025-05-21DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101910
Mpho Dube, Angela Bromley, Sarah Ireland, Yu Gao, Sue Kildea
{"title":"A “better service” promoting “better experiences”: Midwives' experiences working in a caseload service for women of refugee backgrounds","authors":"Mpho Dube, Angela Bromley, Sarah Ireland, Yu Gao, Sue Kildea","doi":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101910","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101910","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Women of refugee backgrounds living in high-income countries experience health inequities. One contributing factor is maternity services that are unresponsive to their particular needs. In 2016, after a service evaluation identified significant issues, an Australian tertiary hospital redesigned a service for women of refugee backgrounds by incorporating continuity of midwifery carer with 24/7 phone access to midwives and interpreters. Midwives provided group antenatal care at a community venue with an onsite social worker, interpreters, and postnatal care at home. There is a dearth of literature describing midwives’ experiences of working in such services.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>To explore and describe midwives’ experiences and perceptions of working at a dedicated Refugee Caseload Midwifery Group Practice service (RMGP).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>One focus group and five one-on-one online interviews were conducted between 12 and 30 July 2021 with eight midwives working, or previously working, at the service. Reflexive thematic analysis interpreted midwives’ work perspectives and experiences.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Themes included 1) Accessible and responsive care, 2) Understanding and valuing women’s needs, and 3) Strong partnerships. Our findings suggest that the RMGP service promoted equity-oriented care by contextually tailoring care to meet women’s cultural and logistical needs. The service components were responsive to women’s needs, promoting easier access to care. However, midwives lacked adequate support to provide trauma-informed care.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The RMGP service promotes accessible care and is an excellent example of a service that provides equity-oriented care for women of refugee backgrounds. Effective training in trauma-informed care will enhance midwives’ provision of quality care.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48868,"journal":{"name":"Women and Birth","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 101910"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and BirthPub Date : 2025-05-17DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101917
Riza Amalia, Alwita Susanti, Ajeng Ayu Widiastuti
{"title":"Humanising childbirth: Bridging respectful maternity care and mental health outcomes","authors":"Riza Amalia, Alwita Susanti, Ajeng Ayu Widiastuti","doi":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101917","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101917","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48868,"journal":{"name":"Women and Birth","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 101917"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144071448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and BirthPub Date : 2025-05-09DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101918
Sarah J. Melov , James Elhindi , Helena Qian , Olivia Byrnes , N. Wah Cheung , P. Michelle de Vroome , Geraldine Gilroy , Tanya Nippita , Michelle Simmons , Gayatri Talla , Lisa White , Dipti Zachariah , Allison Cummins , Dharmintra Pasupathy
{"title":"Do migrant women have equity of access to midwife continuity of care?","authors":"Sarah J. Melov , James Elhindi , Helena Qian , Olivia Byrnes , N. Wah Cheung , P. Michelle de Vroome , Geraldine Gilroy , Tanya Nippita , Michelle Simmons , Gayatri Talla , Lisa White , Dipti Zachariah , Allison Cummins , Dharmintra Pasupathy","doi":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101918","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101918","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Migrant populations are recognised to be at increased risk of adverse health outcomes including perinatal outcomes. Structural barriers to maternity care and racism are recognised globally as an urgent issue for migrants. Midwife continuity of care (MCoC) has well known improved perinatal benefits.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>To investigate if duration since migration was associated with reduced access to MCoC.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We conducted a retrospective cohort study from June 2020–November 2023 at six Australian hospitals. MCoC was investigated by hospital and self-identified ethnic group for women who migrated < 5 years, ≥ 5 years compared to the Australian born population. Regression models adjusted for significant factors including use of interpreter and co-morbidities.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>There were 48,240 participants for analysis. Most in the cohort were Australian born (54.7 %, n = 26,365), migrants of < 5 years comprised 13.2 % (n = 6388) and those who migrated ≥ 5 years 32.1 % (n = 15,487). At all study hospitals, new migrants had the least access to MCoC. Compared to Australian born women, new migrants were 70 % less likely to receive MCoC (aOR 0.30; 95 %CI 0.27–0.34) and migrants of ≥ 5 years were 49 % less likely (aOR 0.51; 95 %CI 0.48–0.56). We identified a difference to access to MCoC between ethnic groups.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>Health literacy needs of women who are migrants should be addressed to improve equity of access to a model of care that is evidenced based to improve perinatal outcomes.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>It is incumbent on health services to measure equity of access and adjust services to ensure equity of access for all populations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48868,"journal":{"name":"Women and Birth","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 101918"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143927904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and BirthPub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101916
Yvonne J. Kuipers , Gill Thomson , Elise van Beeck , Ema Hresanová , Josefina Goberna-Tricas , Sara Rodriguez Martin , Simona Ruta Cuker , Lisa Chudaska , Irmi Waldner , Christoph Zenzmaier , Julia Leinweber
{"title":"The social conception of space of birth according to women with positive birth experiences: A trans-European study","authors":"Yvonne J. Kuipers , Gill Thomson , Elise van Beeck , Ema Hresanová , Josefina Goberna-Tricas , Sara Rodriguez Martin , Simona Ruta Cuker , Lisa Chudaska , Irmi Waldner , Christoph Zenzmaier , Julia Leinweber","doi":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101916","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101916","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>The social space of birth—the birth environment, its occupants, and the human activities taking place—is interconnected with birth experiences.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>To investigate how the reality of the social space of birth affects women’s positive birth experiences.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We combined open-text responses to the Babies Born Better survey from 3633 postpartum women in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and 39 interview transcripts from Czech and Dutch postpartum women. We conducted a textual and thematic analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Three themes and 11 categories were generated: (1) <em>Exercising fundamental human agency in the birth space</em> consists of the categories: ‘exercising rights’, ‘the protection of human vulnerability’, and ‘the freedom to be authentic’, which women regard as prerequisite components of the birth space. (2) <em>Regulatory frameworks & care philosophies in maternity services</em>, including the categories ‘(financial) regulations’, ‘values of the care provider and the institution’, and ‘model of care’, are regarded as attributes of the birth space. Theme (3) <em>Building a nest for comfort and connection</em> comprises the categories ‘relational and affective atmosphere during labour & birth’, ‘performative atmosphere during labour & birth’, ‘shelter’, ‘implicit and explicit tacit doing & being’ and ‘symbol of deeper meaning’.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion/Conclusion</h3><div>The reality of the birth space of women with positive birth experiences consists of human rights and birth rights, the quality of interactions with care providers during labour and birth in a relationship-centred and relation-continuity model of care, and a place to retreat from the world.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48868,"journal":{"name":"Women and Birth","volume":"38 3","pages":"Article 101916"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143890789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and BirthPub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101902
Elana Payne , Sergio A. Silverio , Rebecca E. Fellows , Lauren E. Heywood , Karen Burgess , Claire Storey , Munira Oza , Flora E. Kent-Nye , Leonie Haddad , Amy Sampson , The PUDDLES UK Collaboration , Katherine Knighting
{"title":"From mourning to memorialising – A lasting connection through remembrance: The role of memory making in preserving the identity of parenthood amongst women who have suffered a perinatal bereavement","authors":"Elana Payne , Sergio A. Silverio , Rebecca E. Fellows , Lauren E. Heywood , Karen Burgess , Claire Storey , Munira Oza , Flora E. Kent-Nye , Leonie Haddad , Amy Sampson , The PUDDLES UK Collaboration , Katherine Knighting","doi":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101902","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101902","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Problem</h3><div>Perinatal bereavement can severely disrupt women’s anticipated role as mothers, affecting their psychological wellbeing and identity as parents.</div></div><div><h3>Background</h3><div>Existing research highlights many women report persistent and enduring grief for months or even years post-loss, highlighting the urgent need for interventions to help maintain a healthy parental identity and mitigate long-term mental health impacts.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>To explore how memory-making practices, supported by compassionate care, serve to preserve the parental identity of bereaved mothers after perinatal loss.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 54 UK-based women who had experienced a perinatal bereavement. Grounded Theory Analysis guided the inductive coding and thematic development.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Five themes emerged: (1) Compassion to Care; (2) Finding Comfort in Guidance; (3) Deriving Hope from Parental Identity; (4) Altruism as Catharsis; and (5) Comforted and Consoled. Together, these themes gave rise to the final theory, ‘From Mourning to Memorialising – A Lasting Connection through Remembrance,’ demonstrating how memory-making enables bereaved mothers to preserve their sense of parenthood after loss.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>Memory-making activities allow bereaved mothers to acknowledge their baby’s existence and uphold their parental identity. When supported by compassionate care and support, these activities help to integrate the baby’s memory into daily life, gradually easing acute grief. Over time, they become lasting markers which validate motherhood, foster continuity, and provide solace, ensuring that parenthood endures despite the absence of a living child.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Structured memory-making and compassionate care strategies can enhance parental identity retention, fostering emotional resilience and guiding more effective bereavement care provision.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48868,"journal":{"name":"Women and Birth","volume":"38 3","pages":"Article 101902"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143894933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and BirthPub Date : 2025-04-29DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101915
Bec Jenkinson , Melanie McKenzie , Ayme Limmer , Valerie Charlton , Leah Hardiman , Sam Payne , Anna Lee Ura , Carissa Bonner , Sheleigh Lawler , Philippa Middleton , Jenny Doust , Gita D. Mishra
{"title":"Beyond bereavement: Women’s healthcare experiences and cardiovascular disease risk in the years after stillbirth and recurrent early pregnancy loss","authors":"Bec Jenkinson , Melanie McKenzie , Ayme Limmer , Valerie Charlton , Leah Hardiman , Sam Payne , Anna Lee Ura , Carissa Bonner , Sheleigh Lawler , Philippa Middleton , Jenny Doust , Gita D. Mishra","doi":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101915","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101915","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Problem</h3><div>Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among women.</div></div><div><h3>Background</h3><div>Adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as stillbirth and recurrent pregnancy loss, are sex-specific risk factors for CVD. Little research investigates CVD preventive healthcare following bereavement.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>To describe women’s preferences and experiences regarding CVD preventive healthcare after bereavement and identify their questions to inform future research and intervention design.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A participatory, qualitative approach was adopted, involving a Lived Experience Expert Group to plan, conduct and interpret focus groups with women who experienced stillbirth or recurrent pregnancy loss. Focus groups involved facilitated group discussion, and a nominal group technique activity to prioritise questions about CVD risk. Focus group transcripts were analysed thematically.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Sixteen women participated, all previously unaware of the association between their bereavement and increased CVD risk. Two major themes emerged: women have unmet needs for supportive care after bereavement, and a cautious desire for information about CVD risk. The ‘top ten’ questions focussed on improving bereavement care, preventing CVD, and concerns beyond CVD.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>Although women valued information about CVD risk, they were concerned about adding to the burden of bereaved women, especially in the context of inadequate bereavement care.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Gaps in bereavement care have an enduring impact on women after early pregnancy loss and stillbirth. Beyond improving women’s experiences and mental health outcomes, improving bereavement care may also support uptake of long-term CVD preventive healthcare.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48868,"journal":{"name":"Women and Birth","volume":"38 3","pages":"Article 101915"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143882357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and BirthPub Date : 2025-04-27DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101914
Robin S. Cronin , Michelle R. Wise , John MD Thompson , Jessica Wilson , Emilie Robertson , Billie F. Bradford
{"title":"Maternal satisfaction with outpatient balloon catheter versus inpatient prostaglandin induction of labour: A randomised controlled trial in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Robin S. Cronin , Michelle R. Wise , John MD Thompson , Jessica Wilson , Emilie Robertson , Billie F. Bradford","doi":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101914","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101914","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Little is known about women’s satisfaction with induction of labour experiences in the context of randomised controlled trials, specifically those evaluating outpatient balloon catheter vs inpatient vaginal prostaglandins.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To determine satisfaction levels for women having induction of labour with outpatient balloon vs inpatient-prostaglandin.</div></div><div><h3>Study design</h3><div>Online survey of maternal satisfaction with induction of labour at term within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial in Aotearoa-New Zealand comparing outpatient-balloon with inpatient prostaglandin induction. Outcomes were measured at four to eight weeks after birth. Analysis was chi-square and t-test for descriptive statistics and thematic analysis for free-text data.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>There were 821 participants. For women in the outpatient-balloon group, insertion pain was greater than expected compared to those in the inpatient-prostaglandin group (p = 0.01), however, overall pain was less than expected (p = 0.009). Women in the outpatient-balloon group were less tired at transfer to birthing suite (p < 0.001) and more likely to choose a future induction (p < 0.01) and by the same method (p < .0001). Themes from the free-text data provided by 514 participants were (1) Care and Support; (2) Pain and Discomfort; (3) Sleep and Rest, highlighting novel explanatory evidence of better pre-labour care, less pain and more sleep in the outpatient-balloon group. Information and choice on the induction process were lacking for both groups.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>This study demonstrated greater satisfaction among women having outpatient-balloon induction of labour related to more pre-labour support at home and less pain and tiredness during labour. We encourage maternity hospitals to routinely offer outpatient-balloon induction of labour.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48868,"journal":{"name":"Women and Birth","volume":"38 3","pages":"Article 101914"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143876526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and BirthPub Date : 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101905
Fabio Gomes de Matos e Souza , Luísa Weber Bisol
{"title":"The question still remains which variables are more associated with risk of suicide and postpartum depression","authors":"Fabio Gomes de Matos e Souza , Luísa Weber Bisol","doi":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101905","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101905","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48868,"journal":{"name":"Women and Birth","volume":"38 3","pages":"Article 101905"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143869360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}