Revisiting Healthy Birthing Practices - Time is Now!!

Abstract

Since the early 1960s, we have seen a lot of changes in maternity service delivery practices. Medicalization of birthing process by Obstetricians changed the scenario, and that’s why there is currently a push by several influential organizations to support midwifery care practices which promote, support, and protect natural, safe, and healthy birth. A growing body of research continues to provide evidence for the benefits of supporting the normal physiologic process of labor and birth and the risks of interfering with this natural process. Optimal care in childbirth is referred by Lamaze as Six Healthy Birth Practices. A growing body of research continues to provide evidence for the benefits of supporting the normal physiologic process of labor and birth and the risks of interfering with this natural process.