Care Culture of Pregnant Mothers

Agustina Abuk Seran, Stefanus Supriyanto, Alberth M. Bau Mali

2017

Abstract

Factors of belief and traditional practice have a negative impact on the pregnancy and fetal growth. This research aims to learn the care culture of pregnant mothers. The design of this research is a qualitative study with the case study design approach. The informants of this research were pregnant women and family, midwives, and the birth attendants. The method oof this study are observation and in-depth interviews. The data was analyzed with descriptive qualitative. The pregnant mothers consider pregnancy as normal and natural; there is an the abstinence to eat eggs and salted fish for the reason of causing itching all over the body, and there is a belief and fanaticism about the birth attendants for pregnancy care, the pregnant mothers involve or get support from their husband/family to keep the pregnancy of the spirits by always carrying objects that are believed to keep the pregnancy in the form of iron types such as scissors, nails or pins) while they are outdoors. This has been done from generation to generation. Pregnant mothers still believe and are fanatical about the birth attendants and family for pregnancy care. Recommendations for midwives are to always make their partners become the birth attendants.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Seran A., Supriyanto S. and Mali A. (2017). Care Culture of Pregnant Mothers.In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium of Public Health - Volume 1: ISOPH, ISBN 978-989-758-338-4, pages 570-577. DOI: 10.5220/0007517905700577

in Bibtex Style

@conference{isoph17,
author={Agustina Abuk Seran and Stefanus Supriyanto and Alberth M. Bau Mali},
title={Care Culture of Pregnant Mothers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium of Public Health - Volume 1: ISOPH,},
year={2017},
pages={570-577},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007517905700577},
isbn={978-989-758-338-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium of Public Health - Volume 1: ISOPH,
TI - Care Culture of Pregnant Mothers
SN - 978-989-758-338-4
AU - Seran A.
AU - Supriyanto S.
AU - Mali A.
PY - 2017
SP - 570
EP - 577
DO - 10.5220/0007517905700577