Home birth--a manifestation of aggression?
An increasing number of women today are choosing to have their babies at home. Health professionals concerned about the welfare of both mother and baby sometime tend to respond to these mothers by lecturing rather than listening. This tends to block communication. As a result, women become frustrated and often leave the health care system. This paper attempts to understand the behavior of women who seek a home birth and hypothesizes that these women are responding in a normal, healthy manner to threats imposed by present maternity care. Viewing women who seek home birth from this perspective would tend to facilitate communication. Through open communication the home birth option can be viewed not as a movement or fad, but as a growth period for women and maternity care.
D000374:Aggression; D003142:Communication; D003255:Consumer Organizations; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011247:Pregnancy; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations