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. 2003 Spring;12(2):1-15.
doi: 10.1624/105812403X106784.

Childbirth experience in women at high risk: is it improved by use of a birth plan?

Marie Berg  1 , Ingela Lundgren, Gunilla Lindmark
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Childbirth experience in women at high risk: is it improved by use of a birth plan?

Marie Berg et al. J Perinat Educ. 2003 Spring.

Abstract

Women at obstetric high risk more often experience negative feelings related to childbirth than women with normal outcomes. For these high-risk women, an individual birth plan does not appear to improve the overall experience of childbirth; rather, it seems to intensify the negative feelings in several aspects. The increased vulnerability in women at high risk warrants special attention to the possibility that types of care routinely offered to all women may negatively influence the experiences of high-risk women.

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