Women and Birth
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 105-113 , September 2007

New parents’ experiences of postnatal care in Sweden

  • Ingegerd M. Hildingsson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, SE-851 70 Sundsvall, Sweden
    • Department of Women and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence address: Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, SE-851 70 Sundsvall, Sweden. Tel.: +46 60 148587; fax: +46 60 148910.

Received 5 January 2007 ,Revised 1 June 2007 ,Accepted 4 June 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2007.06.001

Women and Birth
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