The sociodemographic data collection form and the perceived stress and traumatic birth perception scales as pre-tests will be applied to the pregnant women who accept the study before the childbirth training. After the pre-test, the pregnant women will be given face-to-face childbirth preparation training in a classroom environment during four sessions. When the participants complete the training sessions, the scales will be applied as a post-test. The data collection process will be completed after the application of the scales.

Participants will be divided into groups of ten and the training is planned in 4 sessions. Session contents are prepared as sharing general information on preparation for birth, explanation of frequently applied interventions in labor, explanation of non-drug pain relieving methods, teaching and practicing active birth positions that help the labor progress. The duration of the sessions is planned as 2 hours on average.

It was developed by Cohen et al. (1983). The scale was adapted to Turkish by Eskin et al. (2013). The PSS, which consists of 14 items in total, was designed to measure the degree to which a number of situations in a person's life are perceived as stressful. Participants evaluate each item on a 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from "Never (0)" to "Very often (4)". 7 of the items containing positive expressions are scored reversely. Scores vary between 0 and 56. A high score indicates a high perception of stress. In the study by Eskin et al., the Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was found to be 0.84.

The Traumatic Birth Perception Scale (TBPS) was developed by Yalnız et al. (2016) to determine the perception of traumatic birth, and its validity and reliability studies were conducted. The original study was conducted on women aged 18-40. The final version of the scale consists of 13 items. Each item is in the form of an ordinal scale and is scored between 1 (lowest score) and 10 (highest score). The scores obtained from each item are added together. As the score obtained from the scale increases, it shows that the level of perception of birth as traumatic increases. The score obtained from the scale varies between 0 and 130. According to the total score of the scale; 0-26 points indicate "very low", 27-52 points indicate "low", 53-78 points indicate "medium", 79-104 points indicate "high", and 105-130 points indicate "very high" level of perception of traumatic birth. The Cronbach alpha value was found to be 0.89 in the original study of the scale.