A multidisciplinary evaluation, exploration, and advancement of the concept of a traumatic birth experience

The future of midwife-led continuity of care: Call for a dialogue

“…Like midwives, the birthing woman experiences disparities between her own values and the institutional rules, boundaries, and regulations when it comes to giving [ 34 , 38 ]. Birth and midwifery care are embedded in a much wider context – an ecological system of social, historical, political, and cultural features and human behaviour [ 39 ]. Certain a priori macro-level societal aspects such as the overall traditional norms and values about reproduction, birth, and motherhood shape the woman’s subordinate position and reproductive role in society when compared to men.…”

“…According to feminism, midwives are regarded at the lower end of the medical hierarchy and subordinate to obstetricians within medical institutions. Androcentric bias is believed to be deeply embedded in working environments in maternity services [ 39 ].…”

“…When MLCC is not publicly presented as the norm or when midwives are portrayed as practising under the auspices of the medical profession [ 40 , 41 ], women might be perceived as alternative, irresponsible, a bad mother, when it comes to wanting MLCC. Being aware of the rather opinionated, dogmatic, and domineering nature of social media, women might risk how they are perceived and validated by others when choosing MLCC, not allowing to act differently than expected or generally accepted [ 39 ].…”

Denial of reproductive potential: a predictor of unperceived pregnancy in an Austrian neonaticide sample

“…The whole issue of trauma in the history of these women could only be assessed by interviews by an experienced clinician rather than the evaluation of the files from the court, police and forensic expertise, which might have led to the lack of information in our sample on this issue. The gap in reports of a traumatic birth experience was described recently in principle-based concept analyses, which could only include 6 papers offering descriptions of women's experience of the delivery after an unperceived pregnancy (Kuipers et al 2024). The results from the psychiatric diagnoses show that more than half of the subjects did not have any psychiatric diagnosis.…”