CORRECTION article
Front. Glob. Women’s Health
Sec. Maternal Health
NO CHANGE TO TITLE OR KEY WORDS!
Provisionally accepted- The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Adding/removing text [Most of the non-verbal data was removed from participant quotes and transcripts by editors -namely "Laughs" "Laughter" and "Pauses". As the article's analysis specifically address humour and silence in the data, these omissions change the meaning of the data and render the analysis less clear and less convincing.]A correction has been made to the section ["Results and Discussion", in 23 instances highlighted below -and also shown attached as supplementary files.The file "Published article with article corrections in comments" shows the current published article with all corrections in the comments.The file "Originally submitted article with missing words highlighted" shows the corrections another way in case this is clearer. However please note that this version does not include the final changes made by the editors before publication -I only include it to make the placement of the missing words absolutely clear.] Uncommon collective practices: Complementing standard knowledges ….Justine: When you suddenly get contractions, and pressure in your back passage, you don't like it. Okay? And for about 5 minutes, a lot of women, lose it. Just because, they, they are not used to the sensation of both together…And if you're a birth partner within punching distance you'll get hit. …It's very scary for the woman, but after a couple of minutes, it's over… And then you suddenly go, push! …You're so focused on pushing, it takes over your whole body and you forget about all the pain. ….Olivia: All a bit fuzzy? Ah, maybe. I'd say more so with pethidine than with diamorphine and that's the reason it changed, actually, so. Eh, generally we find that we prefer diamorphine, pethidine made everybody a bit woozy. But I had it with my, my first is a bit older and em, I enjoyed pethidine, I have to say I really like it! But, you know, everybody's different. ….Intuiting labour: Embodied, oblique knowledges ….Kath: [My friend] said to me, one thing I'll say to you now, "Don't let them tell you not to push." She said, "I'm sure the reason I had a good back-to-back birth was because I didn't have some dickhead midwife telling me not to push." And as soon as my midwife walked in for my birth, and it was a midwife I'd met prior, I went, don't tell me not to push! Because I'm going to push! And I've been told I'm not allowed to -you know, straight off, I'm gonna push, I'm gonna push. Because you can't not if that urge is there. … Maria: Did you notice that I said, you might, you might get that, you might you might you might you might you might. All of you will start off labour differently. There is no set pattern. It'd be dead simple if there was. But there isn't. You'll all start off differently. Some of you! Won't go into labour at all! But that's for week three. This week, we are gonna go into labour. Yeah? You'll all start differently. You might get a show, you might not. Your waters might break, they might not! The waters can break before labour, in labour, halfway through, at the end, or not at all! A baby can come out, in the bag of water. You might get a bit of D and V, and it's nothing to do with labour starting, it might be something you've eaten! So you'll all start off differently. ….
Keywords: Birth stories, Antenatal preparation, Childbirth education, care, Collective knowledge, feminist technoscience, socio-narratology, Group-led
Received: 19 Sep 2025; Accepted: 17 Nov 2025.
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* Correspondence: Leah De Quattro, leah.dequattro@manchester.ac.uk
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