From: A longitudinal study of women’s memories of their childbirth experiences at five years postpartum
Response after childbirth | Response after 5 years | Two-sample test | Concordance rate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | I don’t remember | ||||||
n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | |||
11. Did you feel that through childbirth you encountered a part of yourself that you did not previously know? | ||||||||
Yes | 353 | (86.1) | 54 | (13.2) | 3 | (0.7) | < 0.001 | 71.3% |
No | 105 | (61.0) | 62 | (36.0) | 5 | (2.9) | ||
12. Did you feel that childbirth meant looking within yourself and searching for insight? | ||||||||
Yes | 364 | (87.7) | 45 | (10.8) | 6 | (1.4) | < 0.001 | 72.6% |
No | 108 | (63.9) | 60 | (35.5) | 1 | (0.6) | ||
13. During childbirth, did you feel that you had no boundaries? | ||||||||
Yes | 121 | (58.5) | 73 | (35.3) | 13 | (6.3) | = 0.797 | 57.5% |
No | 116 | (37.3) | 177 | (56.9) | 18 | (5.8) | ||
14. Did you feel that a higher power was at work and that you were being moved by it? | ||||||||
Yes | 268 | (84.3) | 45 | (14.2) | 5 | (1.6) | < 0.001 | 63.2% |
No | 135 | (66.2) | 62 | (30.4) | 7 | (3.4) | ||
15. Were any of your actions during childbirth completely unexpected even to yourself? | ||||||||
Yes | 140 | (68.0) | 62 | (30.1) | 4 | (1.9) | = 0.018 | 61.5% |
No | 125 | (39.6) | 181 | (57.3) | 10 | (3.2) |