title: [The paradoxes of humanized childbirth care in a public maternity ward in Brazil].
abstract: The maternity ward of the University Hospital in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, attempts to follow World Health Organization guidelines for humanized childbirth care, including the encouragement of non-surgical delivery, breastfeeding, rooming-in, extended family visitation, and reduction of excessive technological intervention in the delivery process. The study focuses specifically on the choice of delivery procedure and on family presence during labor/childbirth, as well as women's experience with labor and breastfeeding.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fundamentos da Educação, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, 88035-001, Brasil. carmentorquist@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Carmen Susana
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Tornquist
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002755:Choice Behavior; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D005260:Female; D006771:Hospitals, Maternity / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D036801:Parturition; D011247:Pregnancy; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014933:Women's Rights