my labour. Therefore, while before I was
more like ‘Don’t push! Ah-ah-ah’, now if
a woman wants to push, I let her push
and that’s it
Only three participants (who had been working
in the labour suite for a couple of years) stated that
their response to the phenomenon did not change
over time. They argued that, since their placements
within the university midwifery programme,
they have always been encouraged to respect the
physiology of labour in the presence of EPU