Better Births. Anna Brown

compassion and incredibly professional’. This presence encouraged a self‐belief in the women, affirming that their own bodies can birth naturally. This is wonderfully reaffirmed by Victoria's friend when she messaged, ‘My job is simply to relax and allow my body to birth my baby’. Victoria acknowledged the midwives' intuition in getting ready for the birth and states, ‘they were right’. They remained patient and calm, giving of self through a balance of engagement with Victoria but affording her therapeutic space when needed, ‘and completely left me alone’. These attributes and consequences of being ‘with woman’ are clearly identified through Rodgers' Concept Analysis of the literature, but the stories above, speak for themselves.

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