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Woman’s Satisfaction with Her Water Birth Experience

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Maternal and obstetric health specialist nurses focus their attention on the human responses to life transitions, particularly in physiological situations. The appearance of associations, in Portugal, for physiological birth defence and for water births defence was the reason for this research. This is a qualitative, phenomenological study from the Max Van Manen perspective with the aim to understand the experience of mothers who had one or more water births in Portugal. Thirteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with women who had at least one experience of childbirth in the water. The data were collected between July 2017 and February 2018. From the qualitative analysis of the data emerged seven categories. Considering the dimension of this study only two of these categories are possible to be presented in this article, namely: the benefits of water; and the woman’s satisfaction manifestations with the experience of physiological labour in water.

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IPV - Polytechnic Institute of Viseu CI & DETS - Center for Studies in Education, Technologies and Health, RESMI - Higher Education Network for Intercultural Mediation, Sigma Theta Tau International, Phi Xi Chapter.

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  1. Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, E.P.E., Aveiro, Portugal

    Mariana Gonçalves

  2. Escola Superior de Saúde de Viseu do Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal

    Emília Coutinho, Paula Nelas, Cláudia Chaves & João Duarte

  3. Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Vitória Pareira

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Conception and study design: MG, EC, VP; data analysis: MG, EC, VP; manuscript preparation: MG, EC, VP, PN, CC, JD; and discussion, revision, submission: MG, EC, VP, PN, CC, JD.

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Correspondence to Emília Coutinho .

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  1. Department of Education and Psychology, Didactics and Technology in Teacher Education (CIDTFF) Research Centre, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    António Pedro Costa

  2. Informatics Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering LIACC Research Center, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  3. Department of Education and Psychology, Didactics and Technology in Teacher Education (CIDTFF) Research Centre, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    António Moreira

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This study is financed by national funds by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., the project UID/Multi/04016/2016. Funding supported by FCT and CIDETS - Center for Studies in Technology and Health Education, Portugal.

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Gonçalves, M., Coutinho, E., Pareira, V., Nelas, P., Chaves, C., Duarte, J. (2019). Woman’s Satisfaction with Her Water Birth Experience. In: Costa, A., Reis, L., Moreira, A. (eds) Computer Supported Qualitative Research. WCQR 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 861. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01406-3_22

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