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The Needs of Birthing Women
KUBAŇOVÁ, Hana
This bachelor thesis deals with mothers-to-be needs. The aim of the research was to identify needs of the giving birth mothers, how midwifes perceive them and how the mothers perceive them themselves and then to compare those needs. A qualitative method of a non?directive interview was chosen for the research. The interviews were conducted with 15 midwives and with 31 mothers in four maternity hospitals, one of them in Austria and then they were subsequently processed by a method of a content analysis. Results show that for the mothers themselves a decision what people will be at the birth, a desirable approach of the staff, an actual care of the staff and their physical needs belong among the most important needs. The midwives consider the most important needs the atmosphere around the giving birth mother, further just as the mothers, the desirable approach of the staff, the actual care of the staff and the physical mothers´ needs and besides it their maternal competence, awareness and perception of the birth primarily as a result. When comparing individual hospitals there was found a fact that the Austrian mothers have least needs and Czech mothers giving birth in the smallest researched hospital have most of them. Midwives in individual maternity hospitals do not differ very much among one another in a perception of the needs, however mothers´ needs were least perceived by midwives in the largest hospital. The thesis showed that even the midwives themselves have their actual needs at their work performance and these needs were identified. The author points out that midwives should be aware of not only the mothers´ needs in general, but they should know the specific needs of the woman they care of. Therefore she proposes an introduction of a birth plan, which would be drawn up by the midwife together with the mother and which would become a part of the nursing documentation.
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