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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Postpartum consultation: Occurrence, requirements and expectations Ingrid Carlgren*1,2 and Marie Berg2 Address: 1Department of Obstetrics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, SE 416 85 Gothenburg, Sweden and 2Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 457, SE 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden Email: Ingrid Carlgren* - ingrid.carlgren@vgregion.se; Marie Berg - marie.berg@gu.se * Corresponding author Published: 23 July 2008 Received: 27 February 2008 Accepted: 23 July 2008 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2008, 8:29 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-8-29 This article is available from: /1471-2393/8/29 ? 2008 Carlgren and Berg; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: As a matter of routine, midwives in Sweden have spoken with women about their experiences of labour in a so-called postpartum consultation. However, the possibility of offering women this kind of consultation today is reduced due to shortage of both time and resources. The aim of this study was to explore the occurrence, womens requirements of, and experiences of a postpartum consultation, and to identify expectations from women who wanted but did not have a consultation with the midwife assisting during labour. Methods: All Swedish speaking women who gave birth to a live born child at a University Hospital in western Sweden were consecutively included for a phone interview over a three-week period. An additional phone interview was conducted with the women who did not have a postpartum consultation, but who wanted to talk with the midwife assisting during labour. Data from the interviews were analysed using qual