Humanising childbirth means taking into account women's values, beliefs and feelings and respecting her dignity and autonomy during the birthing process. Reducing over-medicalised births, empowering women and using evidence-based maternity practice are strategies to promote humanised births. This study aims to explore the Japanese experience of childbirth in different birthing situations where humanised childbirth has been identified among the priority goals of the institutions concerned, and to explore the barriers and facilitators encountered in the practice of humanised childbirth in these centres. The most important barriers identified in humanised birth care were institutional policies and strategies that limited the presence of a birth companion. The main supportive factors were women's cultural values and belief in natural childbirth and institutional strategies to prevent unnecessary medical interventions.
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