Experience of delivery in women with and without antenatal fear of childbirth.
Late pregnant women with and without fear of childbirth were identified by means of a questionnaire. Their delivery experiences were estimated by means of interviews 3-4 days after parturition. Women with antenatal fear of delivery were found to run an increased risk of having a negative delivery experience and of possibly also finding difficulties in the attachment to their children in the immediate postnatal period.
D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology; D010298:Parity; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires