Abstract
ABSTRACT: As part of planning a new maternity wing of a Boulder, Colorado hospital, a telephone interview survey of 645 women who delivered within one year at this hospital was made to determine their preferences for 49 different options in maternity care. The sample was divided into 210 women chosen at random, 230 from La Leche League groups, and 205 women from prepared childbirth classes. The most important areas of concern to these new mothers were similar in all three groups and revolved around maintaining family closeness and obtaining help from hospital staff rather than desire for new or different facilities. Proposals resulting from this study were for the new maternity service to provide 1) combined labor‐delivery‐recovery rooms; 2) most post‐partum rooms to be private; 3) father unrestricted in visiting throughout; 4) sibling visitation; 5) inservice training for medical and nursing staff in childbirth and breastfeeding techniques; 6) family‐centered cesarean births; 7) alternative birth arrangement with early discharge.
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