{"doi":"10.1111/birt.12854","title":"The First Baby Study: What women would like to have known about first childbirth. A mixed‐methods study","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Although prenatal care providers aim to prepare women for first childbirth, little research has explored retrospectively what birthing people would like to have known before first childbirth. AIM: To describe women's reports of what they would like to have known before first childbirth but feel they were not told. METHODS: This is a secondary analysis of the First Baby Study, a large prospective cohort study conducted in Pennsylvania, USA. Telephone interviews were conducted with 3006 women 1 month after their first childbirth. Women were first asked: \"Was there anything that you would have liked to have known before your delivery that you were not told?\". If \"yes\" they were asked a second question: \"Please tell me what you would have liked to have known before your delivery\". ANALYSIS: A convergent mixed-methods analysis including descriptive analytics to compare characteristics of women by answers to the first question, and qualitative content analysis of women's open-ended answers to the second question. FINDINGS: A total of 441 women (14.7%) reported there was something they would like to have known before their first childbirth. Women described that communication with care providers was their main concern. They would have liked a better understanding of their options before birth, more agency in decision-making, and more information about the topics of their body, their birth, their baby, and what to expect beyond birth. CONCLUSIONS: Results highlight important topics for childbirth education, and the impact of gaps in shared decision-making, patient-provider communication, and supportive care practices for first childbirth, especially where women have identified vulnerabilities.","journal":"Birth","year":2024,"id":443098,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":8,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.6086,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1257253,"name":"Kerry Sutcliffe","orcid":"0000-0001-8340-2088","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1123421,"name":"Jennifer Vanderlaan","orcid":"0000-0002-2122-1537","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":348971,"name":"Kristen H. Kjerulff","orcid":"0000-0002-5376-2581","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1257252,"name":"Kate Levett","orcid":"0000-0003-3784-4648","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":44,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:01:24.471942Z","pmid":"39166782","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}