Women and Birth
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 17-24 , March 2007

It's beyond water: Stories of women's experience of using water for labour and birth

  • Robyn M. Maude

      Affiliations

    • Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6005, New Zealand
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +64 4 3855999x5289/64 4 4769319; fax: +64 4 3855316/64 4 4769315.
    • ,
  • Maralyn J. Foureur

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Kuring-gai Campus Lindfield NSW 2070, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 2 9514 5708.

Received 1 June 2006 ,Revised 27 October 2006 ,Accepted 27 October 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2006.10.005

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