Aspects influencing women's decision making about the mode of delivery

Abstract

Objective: get to know the aspects that influence decision making about the mode of delivery among women in the third term of pregnancy. Method: descriptive and qualitative study, developed in 2015 involving 15 pregnant women. Semistructured interviews were undertaken and the data were submitted to content analysis. Results: vaginal birth was the preferred delivery route among the pregnant women. The experiences by relatives, close persons and the pregnant woman herself, feelings and sensations experienced and the prenatal care received were the aspects that influenced the women's decisions. Conclusion: the choice of the mode of delivery was not influenced by a single aspect, but by a series of inextricable factors that, when analyzed separately, perhaps would not be able to influence the decision.