Résumé :
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Background: A woman's choice of birthplace does not only influence her birth experience, but also impacts on maternal and neonatal outcomes. For healthy women who have had a straightforward pregnancy, a planned home birth supported by midwives and other maternity care providers, is now a recognised choice within many individual countries' health care systems. However, there is limited evidence on women's actual experiences of engaging with maternity care providers to plan for a home birth, especially within the context of middle- to high-income countries where there is integration of maternity care services. Therefore, this systematic review will synthesise findings from previous studies, which have reported on women's experiences of planning a home birth in consultation with maternity care providers, in middle- to high-income countries. We anticipate that primarily qualitative studies will be located, as the focus of the review is on experiences of women.
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