Trust and Transformation: Women's Experiences Choosing Midwifery and Home Birth in Ontario, Canada
Using a critical feminist approach, and with attention to participants’ broad life experiences, this qualitative study explores seven women’s challenging, transformative decisions to give birth at home with midwives in Ontario, Canada. To make this choice, the women had to draw on their own strength...
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ndltd-LACETR-oai-collectionscanada.gc.ca-OTU.1807-655282014-07-04T04:41:59ZTrust and Transformation: Women's Experiences Choosing Midwifery and Home Birth in Ontario, CanadaDiFilippo, Shawna HealeyMidwiferyHome birthChoice of birthplaceHealth decision-makingWomen's childbirth experiencesCanadaOntarioWomen's healthCritical feminist researchWoman-centred birthQualitative researchTransformative life experiences0680051604530733062803800573Using a critical feminist approach, and with attention to participants’ broad life experiences, this qualitative study explores seven women’s challenging, transformative decisions to give birth at home with midwives in Ontario, Canada. To make this choice, the women had to draw on their own strength, take responsibility for their decisions, and resist the dominant view of birth as inherently risky, and of women’s birth experiences as unimportant and incompatible with more narrowly defined good outcomes. As participants became informed decision-makers, resisted medicalized birth, and envisioned more woman-centred possibilities, they were empowered as active agents in their births. They were able to trust that with the care of their midwives, and the support of their partners or close family, they could have satisfying and safe births at home.Miles, Angela2014-062014-06-24T14:14:33ZNO_RESTRICTION2014-06-24T14:14:33Z2014-06-24Thesishttp://hdl.handle.net/1807/65528en_ca |
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Using a critical feminist approach, and with attention to participants’ broad life experiences, this qualitative study explores seven women’s challenging, transformative decisions to give birth at home with midwives in Ontario, Canada. To make this choice, the women had to draw on their own strength, take responsibility for their decisions, and resist the dominant view of birth as inherently risky, and of women’s birth experiences as unimportant and incompatible with more narrowly defined good outcomes. As participants became informed decision-makers, resisted medicalized birth, and envisioned more woman-centred possibilities, they were empowered as active agents in their births. They were able to trust that with the care of their midwives, and the support of their partners or close family, they could have satisfying and safe births at home. |
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Trust and Transformation: Women's Experiences Choosing Midwifery and Home Birth in Ontario, Canada |
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Trust and Transformation: Women's Experiences Choosing Midwifery and Home Birth in Ontario, Canada |
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Trust and Transformation: Women's Experiences Choosing Midwifery and Home Birth in Ontario, Canada |
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Trust and Transformation: Women's Experiences Choosing Midwifery and Home Birth in Ontario, Canada |
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