Women and Birth
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 89-96 , September 2009

Optimising psychophysiology in third stage of labour: Theory applied to practice

  • Carolyn Hastie

      Affiliations

    • Belmont Birthing Service, O&G Department Hunter New England Health, Croudace Bay Rd., Belmont, NSW 2280, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 43893919; fax: +61 2 43893919.
    • ,
  • Kathleen M. Fahy

      Affiliations

    • The Newcastle University, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia

Received 13 June 2008 ,Revised 2 February 2009 ,Accepted 22 February 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2009.02.004

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