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Additional Resources
**Please note that the following is a collection of birth story and experience-related information. As this is a site of learning, these links are meant to offer a balance of information, and do not represent my personal opinions.**
Birth Story Websites
Birth Experience
How to Heal from a Traumatic Birth and Bond with Your Baby
La Leche League - Making Peace with your Birth Experience
Making Peace with your Birth Experience
Balancing Birth Experience and Interventions for Better Outcomes
Improving the Birth Experience
The Best Birth for You: A How-to Guide
Opinions
Giving Birth: A Unique Experience for Every Mother
Your Home-Birth is Not a Feminist Statement
A Good Birth Experience is More than the Baby Being Born Alive
Why the Birth Experience Matters
I Had a C-section and I Loved It
Women Deserve to Have a Better Birth Experience
Additional Media
Photographs of a Peaceful Home Birth
Pinterest Birth Story Photography
Further Reading
Ayers, S., Pickering, A.D. (2005). Women’s expectations and experience of birth. Psychology & Health, 20(1), 79-92.
Hauck, Y., Fenwick, J., Downie, J., & Butt, J. (2007). The influence of childbirth expectations on western Australian women’s perceptions of their birth experience. Midwifery, 23(3), 235-247.
Hayden, J.M., Singer, J.A., Chrisler, J.C. (2006). The transmission of birth stories from mother to daughter: Self-esteem and mother-daughter attachment. Sex Roles, 55(5-6), 373-383.
Lay, M.M. (1999). Midwives Birth Stories: Narratives that Expand the Boundaries of Professional Discourse. In J.M. Perkins & N. Blyler (Eds.) Narrative and Professional Communication. (137-150). Connecticut: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Lothian, J., Grauer, A. (2003). “Reality birth: Marketing fear to childbearing women. The Journal of Perinatal Education, 12(2) vi-vii.
Nilsson, L., Thorsell, T., Wahn, E.H., & Ekström, A. (2013). Factors influencing positive birth experiences of first-time mothers. Nursing Research and Practice, Volume 2013.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/349124.
Oppenheim, D., Wamboldt, F.S., Gavin, L. A., Renouf, A.G., et. al. (1996). Couples’ co-construction of the story of their child’s birth: Associations with marital adaptation. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 6(1), 1-21.
Reynolds, J. (1997). Post-traumatic stress disorder after childbirth: the phenomenon of traumatic birth. Canadian Medical Association, 156(6), 831-835.
Rijnders M., Baston H., Schönbeck Y., van der Pal, K., Prins M., Green J., & Buitendijk S. (2008). Perinatal factors related to negative or positive recall of birth experience in women 3 years postpartum in the Netherlands. Birth, 35(2), 107-116.
Simkin, P. (1991). Just another day in a woman's life? Women's long-term perceptions of their first birth experience. Part I. Birth, 18(4), 203-210.
Thomas, D & Brown, S.E. (2011). A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change. Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. ISBN #978146458881.
Waldenström U. & Nilsson, C. (1994). Experience of childbirth in birth center care. ACTA Obsetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 73(7), 547-554.
Waldenström U. (1999). Experience of labor and birth in 1111 women. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 47(5), 471—482.
Waldenström U., Hildingsson I., Rubertsson C., & Rådestad I. (2004). A Negative birth experience: prevalence and risk factors in a national sample. Birth, 31(1), 17-27.
Wiklund, I., Edman, G., & Andolf, E. (2007). Cesarean section on maternal request: reasons for the request, self-estimated health, expectations, experience of birth and signs of depression among first-time mothers. ACTA Obsetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 86(4), 451-456.