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"It's like a puzzle": Pregnant women's perceptions of professional support in midwifery care
Caroline A Bäckström1, Lena B Mårtensson2, Marie H Golsäter3
1University of Skövde, School of Health and Education, P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Skövde, Sweden; Skaraborg Hospital Skövde, "Woman, Child" (K3), SE-541 85 Skövde, Sweden; Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, CHILD-Research Group, Box 1026, SE-551 11 Jönköping, Sweden.
Problem:
Pregnant women are not always satisfied with the professional support they receive during their midwifery care. More knowledge is needed to understand what professional support pregnant women need for childbirth and parenting.
Background:
Childbearing and the transition to becoming a parent is a sensitive period in one's life during which one should have the opportunity to receive professional support. Professional support does not always correspond to pregnant women's needs. To understand pregnant women's needs for professional support within midwifery care, it is crucial to further illuminate women's experiences of this support.
Aim:
To explore pregnant women's perceptions of professional support in midwifery care.
Methods:
A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. Fifteen women were interviewed during gestational weeks 36-38. Data was analysed using phenomenography.
Findings:
The women perceived professional support in midwifery care to be reassuring and emotional, to consist of reliable information, and to be mediated with pedagogical creativity. The professional support facilitated new social contacts, partner involvement and contributed to mental preparedness. The findings of the study were presented in six categories and the category Professional support contributes to mental preparedness was influenced by the five other categories.
Conclusion:
Pregnant women prepare for childbirth and parenting by using several different types of professional support in midwifery care: a strategy that could be described as piecing together a puzzle. When the women put the puzzle together, each type of professional support works as a valuable piece in the whole puzzle. Through this, professional support could contribute to women's mental preparedness for childbirth and parenting.
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