Table 3.

A summary of expressed beliefs by women with and without previous childbirth experience

	With previous childbirth experience	Without previous childbirth experience
Pain	Expressed positive attitudes towards pain tolerance during vaginal delivery	Expressed worries about pain for vaginal delivery
Fear	No fear expressed	Expressed fear of fetal injury, and unexpected delivery date
Main desire	Experience of a real motherhood	Like to keep body shape
Embarrassment and discomfort	Not mentioned	Mentioned embarrassment and discomfort with vaginal delivery
Views on mode of delivery	Viewed vaginal delivery as natural and normal	Viewed vaginal delivery as suffering
Overall expressed preference for mode of delivery	Vaginal delivery	Cesarean section