scholarly journals Mexican-Born Women’s Experiences of Perinatal Care in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 941-945
Author(s):  
Lauren Trainor ◽  
Ellen Frickberg-Middleton ◽  
Monica McLemore ◽  
Linda Franck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Maternity Care ◽  
White Women ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Obstetric Outcomes ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences

Mexican-born women represent a significant proportion of the obstetric patient population in California and have higher incidence of adverse obstetric outcomes than white women, including maternal postpartum hemorrhage and perinatal depression. Little is known, however, about Mexican-born women’s experiences of maternity care in the United States. Qualitative methods were used to conduct a secondary analysis of interview transcripts, field notes, original photographs, and analytic memos from a study of 7 Mexican-born women’s birth experiences. Participants reported social isolation influenced their expectations of maternity care. Disconnection, characterized by unmet physical and relational needs, yielded negative experiences of maternity care, while positive experiences were the result of attentive care wherein they felt providers cared about them as individuals.

Outlaw Women

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Dewey ◽  
Bonnie Zare ◽  
Catherine Connolly ◽  
Rhett Epler ◽  
Rosemary Bratton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Women

This book argues that unique rural cultural dynamics shape women’s experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as “the Western frontier.” Together, these dynamics comprise an architecture of gendered violence, a theoretical lens applicable to women’s experiences of prison throughout the United States in its focus on how the synchronous operations of addiction and compromised mental health, poverty, fraught relationships, and felony-related discrimination undergird women’s lives. The architecture of gendered violence that comprises the primary pathway to incarceration among the Wyoming women in this study reflects the way the suite of concerns facing currently and formerly incarcerated women throughout the United States manifests in a remote rural context far from the coastal metropolises that dominate the production of criminal justice discourse and scholarship.

scholarly journals Sisters in Birth: Improving Birth Outcomes in Mississippi

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 168-180
Author(s):  
Getty Israel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Birth Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Charitable Organization ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences

Mississippi has the poorest birth outcomes in the United States. Sisters in Birth (SIB) is a community-based nonprofit, charitable organization program that links community and clinical health to improve birth outcomes in Mississippi. This article describes the community and clinical health variables that influence birth outcomes and the organization's work or mission. The overwhelmingly positive outcomes of the first 50 women in the program are presented as well as snapshots of individual women's experiences.

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