RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE ISSUED TO EXPECTANT AND DELIVERED MOTHERS

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 93  (6) , 197-202
Abstract
At the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wilhelminenspital der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria, 98% of all deliveries are continuously monitored; 30% (1979) received epidural anesthesia. The presence of the husband in the delivery room and partial rooming-in is available to all mothers. To find out if the service to expectant and delivered mothers is according to the requirement of the patients, questionnaires were distributed indiscriminately over a 2 mo. period to 350 pregnant women and to 240 women in the puerperium. Fetal monitoring was valued positively in the majority of cases; the presence of the husband during delivery is requested in a minority of cases only, but would be welcomed by a higher proportion of puerperal women for the next delivery. Expectant mothers wished epidural anesthesia in 50% of cases. Not only pregnant, but also delivered women demanded rooming-in, the latter group agreeing in the main with a partial form of rooming-in. Nearly 90% of mothers with rooming-in felt well prepared for baby care on leaving the hospital. The possibility of a synthesis of continuous monitoring to achieve optimum safety of delivery and family-orientated obstetrics in the hospital management of labor and the puerperium is discussed.

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