20/02/2018
Finally! Let us allow and embrace the unique and individual blossom of every mother. Thank you World Health Organization (WHO)!
‘In spite of the considerable debates and research that have been ongoing for several years, the concept of “normality” in labour and childbirth is not universal or standardized. There has been a substantial increase over the last two decades in the application of a range of labour practices to initiate, accelerate, terminate, regulate or monitor the physiological process of labour, with the aim of improving outcomes for women and babies. This increasing medicalization of childbirth processes tends to undermine the woman’s own capability
to give birth and negatively impacts her childbirth experience. In addition, the increasing use of labour interventions in the absence of clear indications continues to widen the health equity gap between high- and low-resource settings’.
NEW WHO guidelines for Intrapartum Care
http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/intrapartum-care-guidelines/en/
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