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Preparing for the first birth: mothers' experiences at home and in hospital in australia

Hannah G Dahlen1, Lesley M Barclay, Caroline Homer

  • 1HANNAH DAHLEN is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, Australia, and the University of Technology - Sydney.

The Journal of Perinatal Education
|May 14, 2009
PubMed

The aim of this research was to explore the experiences of a group of first-time mothers who had given birth at home or in hospital in Australia. Data were generated from in-depth interviews with 19 women and analyzed using a grounded theory approach. One of the categories to emerge from the analysis, "Preparing for Birth," is discussed in this article. Preparing for Birth consisted of two subcategories, "Finding a Childbirth Setting" and "Setting Up Birth Expectations," which were mediated by beliefs, convenience, finances, reputation, imagination, education and knowledge, birth stories, and previous life experiences. Overall, the women who had planned home births felt more prepared for birth and were better supported by their midwives compared with women who had planned hospital births.

Keywords:
childbirth educationfirst birthhome birthhospital birthmothers

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