“Babies come when they are ready”: women’s experiences of resisting the medicalisation of prolonged pregnancy

Being pregnant beyond one’s estimated due date is a relatively common experience and requires complex decisions about whether to induce labour or wait for spontaneous onset. We report a qualitative study undertaken in the UK in 2016. We interviewed fifteen women and eleven more took part in an onlin...

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Main Authors: Roberts, Julie, Walsh, Denise
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sage 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/54990/