2005
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2005000500003
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Abstract: The effects of support for women during labor and delivery provided by health professionals, lay women, and doulas on the maternal and neonatal outcomes have been evaluated through randomized clinical trials, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews. This article presents a review of these studies, focusing on the principal characteristics, support provider, simultaneous presence of the woman's spouse and/or family members during labor and delivery and the outcomes. The analysis included studies published from 19… Show more

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“…They can also be professionally qualified and hired to provide physical support, information, to ensure immediate contact with babies, and to provide guidance on breastfeeding (Brüggemann et al, 2005).…”
Section: Use Phytotherapy a Lot I Work With Hydrotherapy Especialmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…They can also be professionally qualified and hired to provide physical support, information, to ensure immediate contact with babies, and to provide guidance on breastfeeding (Brüggemann et al, 2005).…”
Section: Use Phytotherapy a Lot I Work With Hydrotherapy Especialmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Under that perspective, some randomized clinical studies and systematic reviews show the usefulness and the form of support that is provided by family members, spouses, and friends of mothers-to-be, and the effects from the support that is given to women during labor by health care professionals, doulas, and laywomen (Brüggemann et al, 2005). Following that trend, some maternity wards in Brazil have been adapting physical areas to enable the permanence of a companion without jeopardizing the privacy of the remaining mothers-to-be (Storti, 2004), and one of the proposals of Rede Cegonha of 2011 is to enable maternity wards to be adjusted and to allow the construction of maternity facilities that make it possible for companions to be present before, during, and after childbirth (Brasil, 2011a).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In a study on support during parturition, the authors (19) concluded that the support provided by doulas reduced the rate of cesarean sections, use of oxytocin, decreased the time of parturition and birth process, the use analgesia/medications for pain relief and increased maternal satisfaction with the birth experience.…”
Section: ) When I Was Having My Son My Mother Could Not Get Into Thementioning
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“…In the twentieth century, in order to reduce the high rates of maternal and infant mortality, occurred the institutionalization of birth, changing the domicile for hospitalization, and the consequent medicalization. 2 The technological improvement of delivery care has resulted in the absence of solidarity and loss of affective contact. The care has become depersonalized, evidenced by rules and pre-established routines, focused on the doctor's figure, divorcing the birth from the family environment and a humanistic care.…”
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confidence: 99%