Individualized, supportive care key to positive childbirth experience, says WHO

WHO has issued new recommendations to establish global care standards for healthy pregnant women and reduce unnecessary medical interventions.

Worldwide, an estimated 140 million births take place every year. Most of these occur without complications for women and their babies. Yet, over the past 20 years, practitioners have increased the use of interventions that were previously only used to avoid risks or treat complications, such as oxytocin infusion to speed up labour or caesarean sections.

From: http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/news/releases/2018/positive-childbirth-experience/en/index.html