Table 4.

Perceptions toward home delivery and institutional delivery.

Home delivery		Institutional delivery
Positive perceptions	Negative perceptions	Positive perceptions	Negative perceptions
“So delivery and delivering at home is the best place. And then the safest place. No hesitation. No new person, no new environment, no new things. So that is the best thing (…) We have many positive things in delivering at home, as I said home is the safest place for the mother, they are really comfortable, they are really acquainted with the things” – Liangmai church worker, 50 years old	“Delivering at home, I feel is very dangerous (…) and after torturing your body enough only then give birth, so instead of facing these problems, it is better to go to the hospitals and deliver from there (…) then in hospital, we feel free, no worries. At home it is risky” – Liangmai woman, 38 years old	“If we give birth in the hospital it will be good, that’s what I feel because when my children died, that way, I think that might have been while cutting the umbilical cord something went wrong or what. So, it will be better when someone who knows takes care of us, and our children’s life will also be saved” – TBA, 58 years old	“Delivery in the hospital, they say: they lay down and deliver but for me I can ‘t deliver by laying down. Those who deliver by laying down their children is good ok? But it is difficult for us. I also feel that laying down and delivering will be difficult, at home I kneel and deliver.” – Liangmai woman, 24 years old