目的：描述巴基斯坦移民妇女在巴基斯坦和美国的比较分娩经历。
方法：框架是从贝瑞的文化适应中得出的，格里克-席勒等人。跨国主义和伯克曼的社交网络。
方法：定性
方法：妇女经历了与无法遵守文化传统和丧失长期文化传统有关的困难。性别亲属支持。在美国，通过与非亲属群体的弱联系的社交网络的发展，适应性策略是显而易见的，与巴基斯坦亲属保持跨国关系，以及妇女及其配偶对性别定义较少的角色的同化。
OBJECTIVE: Describe the comparative birthing experiences of Pakistani immigrant women in Pakistan and the United States.
METHODS: The framework was drawn from Berry\'s cultural adaptation, Glick-Schiller et al.\'s transnationalism and Berkman\'s social network.
METHODS: Qualitative
METHODS: Women experienced difficulties associated with inability to observe cultural traditions and loss of extended, gendered kin support. Adaptive strategies were evident through development of social networks of weak ties with non-kin groups in the United States, maintenance of transnational ties with kin back in Pakistan, and assimilation of less gender-defined roles by women and their spouses.
