Mbekenga, Columba K.2022-03-242022-03-242018Mbekenga, C., Aston, M., Macdonald, D., Jefferies, K., Price, S., Mselle, L.T. and White, M., 2018. How Tanzanian nurse-Midwives and obstetricians develop postpartum relationships with women. International Journal of Childbirth, 8(1), pp.41-53.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1891/2156-5287.8.1.41http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/918Nurse-midwives and obstetricians are the primary postpartum health-care providers for mothers and babies in Tanzania. It is imperative that mothers and babies receive adequate information and sup- port in order to save lives. Feminist poststructuralism and discourse analysis were used to conduct and analyze 13 semi-structured interviews from nurse-midwives and obstetricians at three clinics in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Establishing friendly supportive relationships enabled nurse-midwives and obstetri- cians to work effectively with mothers postpartum. Participants explained the importance of including family members in postpartum care and about the strategies they used in a clinic environment that was not always supportive of including family. Effective relational maternity care focused on families during the postpartum period can facilitate the delivery of information and save lives.enPostpartumTanzaniaPoststructuralismArticle