Care(less) encounters: early maternal distress and the haunted clinic

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Funding Acknowledgements

First and foremost, we express our gratitude to all research participants who shared with us their personal stories of emotional distress. The paper is based on data collected within two research projects, funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP0990229) and Healthdirect Australia, a national, government owned, not-for-profit organisation. Thank you to Dr Kate Johnston-Ataata, who collected many interviews for the research that informed this paper, and to Maureen Robinson for her support. Renata Kokanovic thanks RMIT University, which, through the RMIT University Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowship, supported her completion of this paper. Finally, we are thankful to anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments that assisted us in refining the final version of this paper.