title: Parental goals and the birthing experience.
abstract: In order to assess the extent to which the obstetric care they were providing was oriented to the family's goals, health-care professionals at a midwestern university hospital planned and conducted an evaluation study of patient services. A mailed questionnaire survey of 91 families who used three family practice residency program model clinics for obstetric care focused on the goals, plans, and experiences that parents has regarding the labor, delivery, and postpartum periods. Parents reported wanting opportunities to be close to the infant immediately postpartum, more time with the infant in the recovery room, earlier rooming-in, more time spent with the infant at night for feeding, and sibling visitation as well as opportunities for siblings to hold the new infant.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003696:Delivery Rooms; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012386:Rooming-in Care; D012801:Sibling Relations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires