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Abstract
Background: Maternity care during childbirth played a crucial role in ensuring maternal and child safety to reach woman satisfaction. Aim: This study aimed to assess maternity care and women satisfaction during childbirth. Study design: A descriptive cross sectional study design was used. Setting: The study was carried out in labor and delivery unit at Belqas center hospital, Dakahlia governorate, Egypt. Sample type: A convenient sample was utilized. Study Sample: The study sample included 240 laboring women who attended for delivery. Tools: A structured interviewing questionnaire, observational checklist for the quality of care for mothers and newborn babies during labor & delivery, satisfaction likert scale. Results: The present study show that less than half of staff washed their hands before assisting with delivery which needed for some improvement, more than half of labor support as persons are allowed with women during delivery needed for some improvement , almost items of partogram needed for substantial improvement because partogram is not ideally performed, more than half of midwifes physically helped women to find comfortable position and women informed about risks and benefits of physiologic versus active management of third stage which needed for substantial improvement, less than half of disinfectant was not put on perineum after delivery needed for substantial improvement with near to one fifth of women dissatisfied with care. Conclusion: Around half of maternity care as condition of delivery, labor support, care during first, second, third stages of labor and care after delivery needed for some improvement, also around half of fetal care needed for substantial improvement. While using partogram in maternity care needed for very substantial improvement plus not availability of CTG machine .More than two thirds of studied women were satisfied with maternity care .Recommendation: Nurses need educational program to improve quality care for mothers and newborn during labor and delivery.