The paradoxes of communication and collaboration in maternity care: A video-reflexivity study with professionals and parents

Research on maternity care often focuses on factors that prevent good communication and collaboration and rarely includes important stakeholders – parents – as co-researchers. To understand how professionals and parents in Dutch maternity care accomplish constructive communication and collaboration, we examined their interactions in the clinic, looking for “good practice”. We used the video-reflexive ethnographic method in 9 midwifery practices...