‘I felt like I could do anything!’ Writing the phenomenon of ‘transcendent birth’ through autoethnography

Kurz, E; Davis, D; Browne, J

‘I felt like I could do anything!’ Writing the phenomenon of ‘transcendent birth’ through autoethnography

Kurz, E Davis, D

Browne, J

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Citation:: Midwifery, 2019, 68 pp. 23 - 29
Issue Date:: 2019-01-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Kurz, E	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Davis, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2041-1064	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Browne, J	en_US
dc.date.available	2018-10-10	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Midwifery, 2019, 68 pp. 23 - 29	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0266-6138	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/128983
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Objective: To discuss the concept of ‘transcendent birth’, an as yet poorly articulated and under recognised psychosocial wellness phenomenon of childbirth. Design: an auto-ethnographical examination of the primary authors’ journaled experiences as a student midwife and childbearing woman. Setting: three maternity care units in South Eastern Australia as well as the home of the primary author. Findings: The phenomenon of transcendent birth is linked with physiologic birth. Maternity care can hinder or facilitate physiologic birth, and therefore transcendent birth. Key conclusions: Transcendent birth is more likely in maternity care models which value the childbearing woman and physiologic birth. Implications for practice: Women's access to transcendent birth is demarcated by women's position in society, cultural knowledge of transcendent birth and the valuing of transcendent birth as a maternity care outcome.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Midwifery	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.midw.2018.10.003	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Nursing	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Humans	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Mothers	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Pregnancy	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Labor, Obstetric	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Parturition	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Anthropology, Cultural	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Adult	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Female	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Surveys and Questionnaires	en_US
dc.title	‘I felt like I could do anything!’ Writing the phenomenon of ‘transcendent birth’ through autoethnography	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	68	en_US
utslib.for	1110 Nursing	en_US
utslib.for	1117 Public Health and Health Services	en_US
utslib.for	1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	68	en_US

Abstract:

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Objective: To discuss the concept of ‘transcendent birth’, an as yet poorly articulated and under recognised psychosocial wellness phenomenon of childbirth. Design: an auto-ethnographical examination of the primary authors’ journaled experiences as a student midwife and childbearing woman. Setting: three maternity care units in South Eastern Australia as well as the home of the primary author. Findings: The phenomenon of transcendent birth is linked with physiologic birth. Maternity care can hinder or facilitate physiologic birth, and therefore transcendent birth. Key conclusions: Transcendent birth is more likely in maternity care models which value the childbearing woman and physiologic birth. Implications for practice: Women's access to transcendent birth is demarcated by women's position in society, cultural knowledge of transcendent birth and the valuing of transcendent birth as a maternity care outcome.

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