Editing Childbirth (section)

===Coping===
Distress levels vary widely during pregnancy as well as during labour and delivery. They appear to be influenced by fear and anxiety levels, experience with prior childbirth, cultural ideas of childbirth pain, mobility during labour, and the support received during labour.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Weber SE |date=January 1996 |title=Cultural aspects of pain in childbearing women |journal=Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=67–72 |doi=10.1111/j.1552-6909.1996.tb02515.x |pmid=8627405|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |display-authors=4 |vauthors=Callister LC, Khalaf I, Semenic S, Kartchner R, Vehvilainen-Julkunen K |date=December 2003 |title=The pain of childbirth: perceptions of culturally diverse women |journal=Pain Management Nursing |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=145–54 |doi=10.1016/S1524-9042(03)00028-6 |pmid=14663792}}</ref>

Personal expectations, the amount of support from caregivers, quality of the caregiver-patient relationship, and involvement in decision-making are more important in the mother's overall satisfaction with the birthing experience than are other influencing factors such as age, [[socioeconomic status]], ethnicity, preparation, physical environment, pain, immobility, or medical interventions.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Hodnett ED |date=May 2002 |title=Pain and women's satisfaction with the experience of childbirth: a systematic review |journal=American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology |volume=186 |issue=5 Suppl Nature |pages=S160-72 |doi=10.1016/S0002-9378(02)70189-0 |pmid=12011880 |s2cid=33672391}}</ref>