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Published on: January 27, 2010
[Choice of type of delivery: factors reported by puerperal woman]
Raquel Ramos Pinto do Nascimento1, Sandra Lucia Arantes2, Eunice Delgado Cameron de Souza3
1Associação de Amparo à Maternidade e a Infância, Maternidade Cândido Mariano, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil.
Objective:
To know the factors listed by puerperal woman that influenced the choice in type of delivery.
Methods:
Qualitative research, developed with 25 puerperal women in a University Hospital of Mato Grosso do Sul, between September and November 2014. A semi-structured interview was used for data collection and the Collective Subject Discourse was used to organize and tabulate the data collected.
Results:
The Collective Subject Discourses resulted in the following categories: Desire for the type of delivery; Respect for the chosen type of delivery and Factors that influenced the choice. Most of the women interviewed (76%) expressed a preference for normal birth due to rapid recovery, less pain and suffering.
Conclusions:
The influence of family members, previous experience with childbirth, professional-customer interaction and internet information influenced the type of delivery chosen, which reinforces the importance of health education since the pre-natal stage, highlighting the need to equip women to perform a conscious choice.
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