Table 2 Themes and categories identified in interviews
Theme | Category |
|---|---|
1. Feeling about attending child birth | Anxious and frightening |
Learning moment | |
Great and comforting | |
2. Responsibilities during child birth | Supportive role |
Decision maker | |
3. Positive experiences during child birth | Planning family |
Joyful | |
Bondage | |
4. Negative experiences during child birth | Painful |
Inability for men to be let in theatre | |
unplanned reactions |