TY - JOUR T1 - Women experienced communion, strength, and understanding of their partners' feelings by having their partners present at the birth of their babies JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 59 LP - 59 DO - 10.1136/ebn.2.2.59 VL - 2 IS - 2 A2 - , Y1 - 1999/04/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/2/2/59.abstract N2 - Bondas-Salonen T.How women experience the presence of their partners at the births of their babies.Qual Health Res1998 Nov;8:784–800OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science Question How do women experience the presence of their partners at the birth of their babies? Phenomenology.Healthcare centres, hospitals, and women's homes in Finland.40 Finnish women who had given birth to 1–6 children. Women had different educational backgrounds, ages, types of housing, and occupations. A woman's partner was defined as the man who was present at childbirth and the alleged father of the child. 9 women were followed up for 2.5 years.Data were obtained before, during, and after delivery by observations of lived events and through 80 interviews. Interviews lasted 20–75 minutes, used open ended questions, and addressed the women's experiences of health and care during the pregnancy … ER -