The Birth-SAGA

An epidemiological approach to uncovering determinants of negative birth experiences.

The main aim of the research project is to:

• quantify women’s birth experience on a national level and identify characteristics of women with a negative birth experience. 
• test the hypothesis that childhood adversities, including physical, sexual and emotional abuse, parental death, parental depression/alcohol/drug use, or other deprivation in childhood, increase women’s risk of a negative birth experience 
• test the extent to which obstetric complications contribute to women’s negative birth experience. 

Our principal investigator: Emma Marie Swift, Lecturer of Midwifery