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- Title
Birth Plans: Why Pay Attention?
- Authors
Schwartz, Jeanette
- Abstract
The article explores the importance for mothers to pay attention to birth plans whose primary purpose is to improve the communication between the client, the health care provider and the health care team. It explains how birth plans help raise the awareness of mothers regarding the benefits/alternatives/risks to all childbirth options available to her. Birth plans also enable pregnant women to express her thoughts about issues related to her hospital stay and post partum. It describes the role of birth plans in advocacy and patient satisfaction.
- Subjects
BIRTH plans; COMMUNICATION in obstetrics; PREGNANT women; PATIENT-professional relations; CHILDBIRTH; PATIENT satisfaction
- Publication
International Journal of Childbirth Education, 2010, Vol 25, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0887-8625
- Publication type
Article