Table 2.

Maternity and birth details of those women who responded to open text question

Maternity and birth details	Count (%) (n=6101)
Parity
Had one previous birth	3256 (53.37%)
Had more than one previous birth	2845 (46.63%)
Model of care
Standard care (fragmented care)	2081 (34.11%)
Continuity of care with public midwife (MGP)	1581 (25.91%)
Continuity of care with doctor (private ob)	1364 (22.36%)
General practitioner shared care	542 (8.89%)
Private midwife (privately practising midwife)	505 (8.28%)
No healthcare	28 (0.46%)
Mode of birth
Vaginal birth	3611 (59.19%)
Caesarean during labour	1008 (16.52%)
Assisted vaginal birth (forceps/vacuum)	884 (14.49%)
Caesarean before labour	558 (9.15%)
Vaginal breech	40 (0.66%)
Place of birth
Public hospital	3833 (62.83%)
Private hospital	1071 (17.55%)
In hospital but transferred from birth centre	99 (1.62%)
Birth centre	390 (6.39%)
In hospital but transferred from home birth	57 (0.93%)
At home with midwives	436 (7.15%)
Born before arrival to hospital	80 (1.31%)
Planned freebirth	49 (0.80%)
Other	86 (1.41%)
Initiation of labour
Spontaneous	3713 (60.86%)
Induced	1853 (30.37%)
I did not labour	535 (8.77%)
Time since birth
Less than 6 months	1438 (23.57%)
6 months to 1 year	1153 (18.9%)
1 year to 2 years	1630 (26.72%)
2 years to 3 years	1000 (16.39%)
3 years to 4 years	482 (7.9%)
4 years to 5 years	377 (6.18%)
Did not answer	21 (0.34%)
Birth pre-COVID-19 or during COVID-19
Pre-COVID-19	3489 (57.19%)
During COVID-19	2591 (42.47%)
Did not answer	21 (0.34%)
Experienced a traumatic birth
Yes	2037 (33.39%)
No	4062 (66.58)
Did not answer	2 (0.03%)

MGP, midwifery group practice.