**3. How to reach a positive postnatal experience?**

A positive postnatal experience is recognized as a significant endpoint for all women giving birth and their newborns, laying the platform for improved short- and long-term health and well-being [9]. It is also defined as when women, newborns, partners, parents, caregivers, and families receive information, reassurance, and support consistently from motivated health workers; where a resourced and flexible health system recognizes the needs of women and babies and respects their cultural context. Moreover, the positive birth experience promotes a sense of achievement, enhances a feeling of self-worth, and facilitates confidence; all of which are

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important for a healthy adaptation to motherhood and psychological growth [10]. Understanding what constitutes a positive birth experience is critical to providing maternity care that meets childbearing women's individual needs, preferences, and priorities. Likely wise, any satisfaction with birth has been associated with several factors and the Psychosocial dimensions of care have been shown to influence women's overall assessment. Individualized emotional support empowers women and increases the possibility of a positive birth experience [11].

Therefore, the human reproductive program initiated by the World Health Organization has developed a comprehensive set of recommendations for care during the antenatal and postnatal period, focusing on the essential package that all women and newborns should receive, with due attention to the quality of care, that is, the provision and experience of care and management of postnatal complications [1].
