On the Childbirth Experience of Multipara

Analysis of the Contents of the Birth Experiences Influenced by Previous Ones

Abstract

A childbirth is an experience in which the wife feels not only joy but also various pains. Every man percepts an incident happening to him with his own sensory perception, then judges it and acts. This process, after having been leaned as a new way of his perception, begin to have influences on what he dose there after. In the cases of wives who had delivery experience before, what kind of influence could it have on their another delivery at this time. I interviewed 27 wives who had had childbirth experience by semi-stractured interview, and classified and analyzed the results according to the seven following items; 1. self-control, 2. control of physical functions, 3. function of childbirth, 4. labor and other physical pains, 5. giving supports, 6. expectations to the newborn babies, and 7. preconceptions. As a result, we knew that a wife who had childbirth experience before felt fear and anxiety, when she cames upon a phenomenon which was different from what she had experienced before, or when she found herself again in the same kind of situation where she had had some negative experience before. And we also knew that, relation to her fomer experience, she was trying to give birth to a baby by making efforts to better her earlier faults.