Evaluating the Effect of Hugging and Praying on Traumatic Birth Perception, Birth Pain, and Birth Anxiety

Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥18 years * No communication barriers * Applying to Ağrı Training and Research Hospital for normal delivery within the study dates * Volunteering to participate in the study * No contraindications for normal vaginal delivery (e.g., cephalopelvic disproportion) * Being at term (38-42 weeks) * No condition preventing praying and hugging Exclusion Criteria: * Refusal to participate in the study * Maternal disease (heart disease, diabetes, etc.) * Having a preterm or postterm pregnancy * Undergoing an emergency cesarean section during follow-up * Having a fetal malformation (anencephaly, Down syndrome, etc.) * Not answering the questions in the questionnaire