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Nine Years’Experience with Family‐Centered Maternity Care in a Community Hospital
Author(s) -
Klass Kay,
Capps Kay
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1980.tb01527.x
Subject(s) - childbirth , medicine , maternity care , community hospital , obstetrics , nursing , family medicine , pregnancy , genetics , biology
Over a 9‐year period the percent of Lamaze‐trained parents grew from 10% to 68% in this community hospital. Another 25% of the couples use self‐taught Lamaze or other prepared childbirth techniques, bringing the total of prepared couples to 93%. Changes made by the nursing staff and 13 obstetricians over these 9 years include Lamaze training for staff nurses, inclusion of siblings, suspension of admission and later obstetric routines, reduction in use of medications, and many choices for type of delivery and family participation. A recent 9 month's statistics show 71.97% spontaneous deliveries, 10% cesareans, 33.3% of the vaginal deliveries done in the labor bed, and 90% of women having only local, pudendal or no anesthesia.