July, 2018 | Alliance Of African Midwives

The Rights Of Women When Giving Birth

For more than 60 years, it has been the standard of care to try to speed up childbirth with drugs, or to perform a cesarean section if labor was seen as progressing too slowly. Now a new set of recommendations is … Continue reading →

Do not intervene to speed up birth unless real risks involved

Medical staff and midwives should not intervene to speed up a woman’s labour unless there are real risks of complications, says the World Health Organisation (WHO), warning that too many are not having the experience of natural childbirth that they … Continue reading →

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