Mothers-to-be think their own mothers know better than the medical profession when it comes to health advice, researchers say. A University of London team surveyed women who gave birth in the 1970s, 1980s and the 2000s. Modern women were more likely to take a mixture of advice, but were still more likely to follow family wisdom. The researchers talked about pregnancy and childbirth advice to seven women who gave birth in the 1970s and 12 of their daughters who had babies in the 2000s. They also analysed interviews on the same topic, which had been carried out with 24 women in the 1980s.
The 1970s mothers were most likely to take advice from family members. But researchers found that women who had babies between 2000 and 2010 had to evaluate a wide range of information from doctors, midwives, books, magazines and, latterly, the internet—as well as that from their families. In these women, it tended to be family advice that won out—particularly if a mother-to-be was dealing with a specific symptom. Read full article
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