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  • Making the Shift: Narratives of Transfer from Planned Home Birth to the Hospital in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Houtman, Leah S.
    Abstract:
    About 1% of U.S. births each year are planned home births (Vital Statistics Reports 2017). Of these, roughly 10% transfer to a higher level of care during labor (Melissa Cheyney et al. 2014), yet their experiences are rarely heard. Storytelling has long been used not only as entertainment, but as...
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    Masters Thesis
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Melissa J. Cheyney About 1% of

  • "It's not about place it's about space" : place-of-birth decision-making in Cork, Ireland

    Creator:
    Houtman, Leah S.
    Abstract:
    Despite apparently supportive national policies, including nation-wide legalization of home birth and coverage by the national health care system of the costs associated with that option, these births account for less than 1% of all births in the Republic of Ireland. Using data collected during participant observation, both in person...
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    :   _________________________________________________________________________________________________   Melissa  J.  Cheyney       Despite  apparently  supportive  national