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Women's Decision-Making And Factors Affecting Their Choice Of ...

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Montiemeame: now hku husband feeLs the same, so it Ls not<br />

sowtethi-ng we trLed to olLscuss.<br />

Soit-hatelo: we probabLu olLscussed the fact that he wouLol prefer to be<br />

sowtewhere where peopLe Iznew, a Lot of peapLe were arouvt.ol to Cisfre questtons, so he<br />

feit as well reallu that we wanted to go to hospitaL. To be hoikest 1 OCiikvvOt sit<br />

here and sau that he de-ftniteLu scot I want to go to hospLtaL but IznowLng his<br />

personaLitu. I would thimk he would prefer to have sowteone eLse around. I-fe's<br />

ctuLte 513/K1101r to vut Ln that seikse.<br />

matebogo: t don't thi.nle. I gave Kw& anu choize at all. 1 thi-nlz he would<br />

probabLu have sciLd it was u.p to Kite CinUwC1U.<br />

oiebogevtg: we never reaLLu olLscussed it because we Iznew when {name<br />

of hospital] cLosed dowvt, WeitxSt thought oh weLL, next tLwte we have a babu<br />

wal be at [name of hospital]. so, um, des, it wasn't somethLng we di-scussed,<br />

wAS juSt, that was where we were goimg to go.<br />

One woman planning a hospital birth expressed the husband's<br />

involvement in this way:<br />

mosi.bodL: I've deaded to have it Li& hospitaL, the reasons for that reaLLu<br />

are because it Ls mu fl.rst babu and I feeL safer. P,oth mu husband and vu.useLf<br />

have agreed that we'd both feeL happLer if was Lvt hospital., especiALLu as wtu<br />

husband worlzs reallu funnu hours and thi.ngs so if ao have to go on mu own<br />

there wouLd be Lots of peo-pLe to heLp reaLLu, I would just feet more safe an.ct<br />

secure Ln hospital..<br />

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