One-on-one professional support during labor is recognized for its role in promoting physiological birth, reducing interventions, and enhancing women's birthing experiences. Throughout physiological birth, many women encounter an altered state of consciousness. This state not only facilitates the normal birth process but also empowers women during and after childbirth. Recently, the flow-a...
A flow experience typically occurs when the challenge of a demanding physical activity aligns with an individual's abilities, resulting in a sense of empowerment and fulfillment. Experiencing flow during physiological childbirth occurs in various birth environments, but quantitative studies comparing home birth and hospital birth in this respect are scarce. Childbirth is a psychological,...
It has been demonstrated that birth without medical intervention conveys significant physical and psychological benefits to the mother and her newborn baby. However, there is a need to include women's subjective experience of physiological birth to understand and promote it. The theoretical concept of "birthing consciousness" hypothesizes that women during natural childbirth sometimes...