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This study was designed with the aim of exploring beliefs and attitudes in this region.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec id=\"j_jpm-2020-0148_abs_002_w2aab3b7c58b1b6b1aab1c16b3Aa\">\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Voluntary participation in an ethics-approved survey was offered to pregnant women attending the antenatal clinic at Sidra Medicine from August 2018 to January 2019 with no exclusion criteria.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec id=\"j_jpm-2020-0148_abs_003_w2aab3b7c58b1b6b1aab1c16b4Aa\">\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Of the 346 respondents, 58.1% were Arabic and the remainder expatriates. This group composition allowed comparison between women native and non-native to the Gulf region. Arabic and non-Arabic women differed significantly in previous birth experiences: the Arabs had had more doctor-led deliveries (45 vs. 34%), epidurals (56.6 vs. 45%) and episiotomies (65.7 vs. 54%). 70.2% of the respondents chose a normal delivery as their preferred birth mode though a smaller majority of the Arabic subgroup did (63.2 %). 60.4% preferred delivery by doctors and longer hospital stays (47.6), more so Arabic participants (64.7 and 68.6 %). Significantly less Arabs, would choose husbands as birth partners (51.2 vs. 86.2%) and more expressed a gender preference for doctors. Other group choices are presented.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec id=\"j_jpm-2020-0148_abs_004_w2aab3b7c58b1b6b1aab1c16b5Aa\">\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Though women in this region made comparable choices about mode of delivery as their Western counterparts, they demonstrated an expectation of a culturally distinct and more medicalized approach to care in labour. 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