Objectives: To explore and describe what student midwives, enrolled in one Western Australian (WA) university, had witnessed, learned and experienced regarding the concept of being 'with woman'. Design: A qualitative descriptive design was chosen.Setting: A university in Perth, Western Australia.Participants: Nineteen student midwives from an undergraduate and a post graduate midwifery course. Methods: Data were collected from audio-recorded interviews. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts was used to identify commonalities of perceptions and experiences of being 'with woman' for students. Data saturation guided when recruitment ceased and final sample size was achieved.Findings: Student interviews revealed that when considering the concept of being 'with woman' students were able to give descriptors of what they interpreted the meaning of being
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