title: An English midwife in Arkansas. Part 1: Preparing for birth in America.
abstract: This article is a narrative of my experience as an English pregnant midwife receiving maternity care in America. I will discuss some of the differences in antenatal care, how I prepared for birth in a country where approaches to maternity care are significantly different when compared to the UK and also the people I met along this journey who have made it an enjoyable and eye opening experience. The second article of this series of three will describe the birth experience itself and the third will discuss the differences in practice from a midwife's perspective.
authors.forename: Chantal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Woog
mesh_terms: D001131:Arkansas; D001294:Attitude to Health; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D036801:Parturition; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006113:United Kingdom