Ingela Rådestad

TL;DR: Of the established methods to improve women's birth experience, childbirth education and obstetric analgesia seemed to be less effective, whereas support in labor and listening to the woman's own issues may be underestimated.

TL;DR: Apart from questions about psychiatric history, a psychosocial history in early pregnancy including stressful life events, native language and employment status could help the health professionals to identify women at risk for recurrent or sustained depression during pregnancy and the year after giving birth.

TL;DR: To investigate how many women wish to have a caesarean section when asked in early pregnancy, and to identify background variables associated with such a wish.

TL;DR: It is shown that it is advisable to induce the delivery as soon as feasible after the diagnosis of death in utero, and a calm environment for the woman to spend as much time as she wants with her stillborn child is beneficial, and tokens of remembrance should be collected.

TL;DR: First‐time mothers' views about antenatal childbirth and parenthood education and their contact with other class participants after birth are investigated and participants and non‐participants are compared with respect to the use of pain relief, experience of pain, mode of delivery, childbirth overall, duration of breastfeeding, and assessment of parental skills.