From Home to Hospital

From Home to Hospital
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By:"Angela Danzi"
"Psychology"
Published on 1997-01-01 by University Press of America

Why \u003cb\u003eHome Birth\u003c/b\u003e? Nearly one of six (or 17%) of the women in this study selected \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ehome birth\u003c/b\u003e for all their childbirth experiences, about 25 percent of Italians, but \u003cbr\u003e\nonly 3 percent of Jews. Women who had home births exclusively, spanning the ...

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Employing seventy-eight in-depth interviews with Italian and Jewish American women, this study presents the subjective voices of women caught up in an important social change: the pre-1940 transformation of childbirth. Italian women were more varied in their choices some were more likely to prefer home birth with a midwife, while others used a hospital clinic or private physician. A significant number moved from home to hospital over their birth careers, while nearly all Jewish women selected physician-assisted hospital birth. These differences are explained by looking at the structure and context of women's family and friendship networks and their personal links to varying childbirth caretakers.\

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