sinhala books to read baby during pregnancy

The quality of intrapartum care that a particular woman gets has an impact on her physical and emotional well-being. Thus it elaborates the significance of woman’s psychological well-being and achieving a satisfactory childbirth experience in addition to birth of her baby. In the latest Cochrane review on continuous support for women during childbirth has reported that continuous labour support with the help from a labour companion ( doula) who is a member of the labouring woman’s social network, has been proved to effective in improving laboring women’s satisfaction and hence their childbirth experience.

Studies have reported that mothers often felt alone and unsupported during childbirth process and some of them would not get pregnant again due to the negative experience they had during last childbirth. Higher workload in the hospitals resulted a sub-standard level of intrapartum care during childbirth. Address of these hidden aspects is important for a positive childbirth experience and mother’s long-term well-being. Although women seems to be satisfied with a healthy baby, the childbirth also has a psychological dimension. Labour room staff should always try to make her labour experience as comfortable and dignified as possible. The birth of a child is a significant event in a woman’s life and family. Therefore, this tool can be used to assess various dimensions of childbirth experience in first-time mothers. Different tools to assess maternal childbirth experience are essential to identify those who need psychological and moral support. Validation of this tool will be important in future research, audit projects as well as in service evaluation. In a similar manner for any study investigating woman’s satisfaction with her birth experience in Sri Lanka needs to have a standardised method like CEQ. Latest NICE guideline on intrapartum care has also highlighted that any research on the effectiveness of interventions in latent stage of labour needs measuring woman’s satisfaction with childbirth experience. Since there is no properly validated instrument in Sinhala language to assess childbirth experience in Sri Lankan women, Sinhala CEQ will be a worthwhile effort. Moreover, primiparous women are prone to get negative childbirth experiences. However woman’s perceptions and experiences in childbirth are being rarely evaluated. This CEQ is a simple self-administered questionnaire to assess women’s satisfaction in different aspects of their first labour and birth. Those are own capacity, professional support, perceived safety and participation comprising of 22 items.

It measures four main domains of the childbirth experience. It has been validated in the United Kingdom too in 2015. The Childbirth Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) was developed and validated among first-time mothers in 2010 in Sweden.

Sinhala books to read baby during pregnancy