First-time mothers’ expectations of the unknown territory of childbirth: uncertainties, coping strategies and ‘going with the flow’
Objective. To explore first-time mothers’ expectations of labour and birth, coping strategies they adopt during pregnancy towards childbirth and coping strategies they expect to use during labour and birth. Design. A qualitative Straussian grounded theory methodology was adopted, with data collec...
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Elsevier
2018
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51510/ |