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J Caring Sci. 2019;8(1): 23-31. doi: 10.15171/jcs.2019.004
PMID: 30915310        PMCID: PMC6428162

Original Research

Lived Traumatic Childbirth Experiences of Newly Delivered Mothers Admitted to the Postpartum Ward: a Phenomenological Study

Sedigheh Abdollahpour 1 ORCID, Zahra Motaghi 2 * ORCID

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