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Sat, 8 Jan 2000 22:07:50 -0500
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Penny Simkin did a little study on this several years ago - she interviewed
women that she had "doula'd" many years before, and she compared their
memories to the notes she had taken at the births. They were very accurate
and remembered the births as though they happened yesterday.

She (actually, I think she had other people doing the interviews, to
eliminate bias) also asked them about positive or negative feelings about
the birth experience. Her conclusion was that even if women had a difficult
birth, they felt most positive if they had been supported and felt they had
participated in all decision-making. And many described the experience of
giving birth as changing how they felt about themselves and affecting their
whole lives.

(All of this is just from memory as I don't have the study around.)

Teresa Pitman
 Guelph, Ontario

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