Mood and birth experience |
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| Authors: | Susan Crowther Liz Smythe Deb Spence |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton, Melbourne, Vic 3800, Australia;2. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton, Melbourne, Vic 3800, Australia;1. Midwifery, University College of the North; University of Manitoba, Helen Glass Centre for Nursing, 89 Curry Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2;2. Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Human Ecology building, 35 Chancellors Circle, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2;3. College of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Helen Glass Centre for Nursing, 89 Curry Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2;4. Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, The Birth Centre, 603 St. Mary''s Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R2M 3L8;1. Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Akureyri, Solborg, P.O. Box 224, 602 Akureyri, Iceland;2. Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Eiriksgata 34, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland;3. Icelandic Heart Association, Iceland;4. School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Sæmundargötu 2, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland |
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| Abstract: | BackgroundThose at the birth of a baby sometimes speak of the experience as significant and meaningful; an experience in which there is an atmosphere or mood that surrounds the occasion. This paper explores this mood, its recognition, disclosure and how we attune or not to it. The paper is philosophically underpinned by hermeneutic phenomenology. The Heideggerian notion of “attunement to mood” is used to interpret this phenomenon. This paper describes how such a mood becomes visible.MethodsUsing a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, 14 tape-recorded transcribed interviews, each about an hour long, were conducted over 8 months from mothers, birth partners, midwives and obstetricians. The stories crafted from these transcripts have been interpreted alongside my own preunderstandings and related literature. Appropriate ethical approval was gained.FindingsAnalysis suggests that there is a positively construed mood of joy at birth that can be concealed when disrupted. Disturbing this mood has the effect of exposing the world of birth and its inherent activities and feelings revealing possible meanings inherent in the lived birth experiences. Disturbances at birth provide distinctions and tensions in which a concealed constitutive mood at birth can be seen. This paper provides insight towards a deeper appreciation into how the sacred joy of birth may be protected.Implications for practiceThe way in which we attune to birth may have consequences to birth outcomes and to the experience of childbirth. The consequences of these findings for those in the world of birth are discussed. |
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