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Abstract
While the transition to motherhood may not be a crisis for most new mothers, it is certainly a stressful life event. In order for health care professionals to facilitate new mothers’ transitions to motherhood, they need to be aware of the various concerns during postpartum period. This study was aimed to assess concerns of women about the early care after first labor. It was carried out at post-natal department in 3 hospitals in Mansoura City. The study subjects consisted of 300 women in postpartum department during first 24 hours after labor. An interview schedule was designed and utilized to collect the necessary data. The results of this study revealed that 77.7% of women had physical concern, psychological concern (69.7%), concerns related to infant care (97.3%), social concerns (55.0%), sexual concerns (18.0%) and concerns related to family planning (72.0%). A significant relation was found between the women concerns and related independent variables among the studied women. It was concluded that a sizable proportion of women had physical concern specifically nutrition, fatigue and perineal pain. They also had economic concern related to baby needs that explored why working women prefer to return back to work. The majority of women had also psychological concern about their future role of being a mother and the use of birth control methods was essential.. Therefore, the study recommended the development and dissemination of training courses and education programs for the decision makers, workers in health care settings and antenatal clinics to raise awareness of concerns of primipara women and how to address it.