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Table 4 Responses on the "discovery" factor of the CBE-Scale at baseline and 5 years postpartum

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)