What women want / deserve

“All mothers should have access to safest vaginal birth practices. We should not expect them to choose between vaginal birth with avoidable harms and cesarean section.” Childbirth Connection article

Lamaze International believes that the following care practices, adapted from the World Health Organization (WHO), promote, support, and protect nature’s plan for birth:
  1. Labor begins on its own
  2. Freedom of movement throughout labor
  3. Continuous labor support
  4. No routine interventions
  5. Non-supine (e.g., upright or side-lying) positions for birth
  6. No separation of mother and baby after birth with unlimited opportunity for breastfeeding

 

Posted: December 9, 2006 Tell it like it is (0)