Exploring Women’s Experiences of Maternity Service Delivery in Regional Tasmania: A Descriptive Qualitative Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Setting
2.2. Data Collection
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Themes
3.1.1. Theme 1: Is This Normal?
To be honest I was ignored. I didn’t get breakfast at all. It wasn’t even acknowledged that I hadn’t eaten. I like they did my standard checks and stuff. But apart from that I didn’t really no one checked in on me no one did anything they kind of just ignored me I don’t know if it was because it was baby number five, or, you know, as I just sort of expected though I knew whether it was busy I don’t know. But I must say that that was the one thing that I was quite upset about was you know, I hadn’t been given breakfast I’d literally just had a baby…..it just wasn’t acknowledged at all that, I’d expressed a concern about him [baby] not accepting one breast, he’d accept one breast but the other one, he wouldn’t, and that concern wasn’t really even looked into, it was sort of maybe you could just try a different hold and that was it(Anise 5th baby)
3.1.2. Theme 2: Talking about Me Not with Me
…and so I’d had a cold and I had a chest infection was being treated so that, because I had those symptoms so wasn’t allowed to attend any appointments, getting pushed back and pushed back and that kind of felt like I got to 38 weeks and I was like I haven’t seen a doctor like I need to be seeing a doctor, what is happening …that was stressful because I was missing appointments and I just let like I was being left behind, why doesn’t anyone care, why doesn’t anyone care that I’m really unwell while pregnant(Daphne 1st baby)
I asked to go home just because there was no help there, yeah, they let me go. I realised there was, there was no point really staying in there when I am asking for help and they’re not helping me.
3.1.3. Theme 3: Luck of the Draw
Really friendly and understanding, and they are patient, they explained stuff yeah. It made me feel quite good actually, to be able talk to them and just not feel like I’m being judged or anything like that. Yeah, I feel quite good about it, yeah.
Because my labour had stalled by the time they said an hour, and then another half hour and then had another half an hour because they had to get theatre staff in. At the time, when you sort of put that many timelines on someone, I don’t think they can progress in the zone.(Magnolia 1st baby)
4. Discussion
4.1. Limitations
4.2. Recommendations from This Research
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Hargreaves, S.; Young, S.; Prior, S.J.; Ayton, J. Exploring Women’s Experiences of Maternity Service Delivery in Regional Tasmania: A Descriptive Qualitative Study. Healthcare 2022, 10, 1883. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101883
Hargreaves S, Young S, Prior SJ, Ayton J. Exploring Women’s Experiences of Maternity Service Delivery in Regional Tasmania: A Descriptive Qualitative Study. Healthcare. 2022; 10(10):1883. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101883
Chicago/Turabian StyleHargreaves, Sally, Sarah Young, Sarah J. Prior, and Jennifer Ayton. 2022. "Exploring Women’s Experiences of Maternity Service Delivery in Regional Tasmania: A Descriptive Qualitative Study" Healthcare 10, no. 10: 1883. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101883
APA StyleHargreaves, S., Young, S., Prior, S. J., & Ayton, J. (2022). Exploring Women’s Experiences of Maternity Service Delivery in Regional Tasmania: A Descriptive Qualitative Study. Healthcare, 10(10), 1883. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101883