Childbirth in a Technocratic Age: The Documentation of Women’s Expectations and Experiences
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Table of Contents

List of Figure and Table

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xv

Chapter 1: Maternal Expectations in 21st-Century
U.S. Birth Culture

1

Chapter 2: Expected Childbirth Pathways

19

Chapter 3: Expectations and Experiences of
Planned Hospital Natural Childbirth

45

Chapter 4: Expectations and Experiences of
Planned Spinal (Epidural)
Labor Analgesia

69

Chapter 5: Expectations and Experiences of
Deferred Epidural Decisions

95

Chapter 6: Expectations and Experiences of
Planned Cesarean Delivery

115

Chapter 7: Expectations and Experiences of
Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC)

139

Chapter 8: Expectations and Experiences of
Out-of-Hospital Birth

157