Stop rushing women in labour, WHO says, with new advice to reduce caesarean section rates Women should be given more time to give birth, the World Health Organisation has said as it changes its advice, warning that too many are being pushed into caesarean sections.
Its experts said mothers-to-be were being subjected to too many medical interventions, and should have more say over how and whether they gave birth.
The new advice rejects previous suggestions about the speed of a normal labour, saying the idea that a cervix should dilate at 1cm per hour was “unrealistic” and led to too many women having needless caesareans. The Daily Telegraph
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Its experts said mothers-to-be were being subjected to too many medical interventions, and should have more say over how and whether they gave birth.
The new advice rejects previous suggestions about the speed of a normal labour, saying the idea that a cervix should dilate at 1cm per hour was “unrealistic” and led to too many women having needless caesareans. The Daily Telegraph
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- Individualized, supportive care key to positive childbirth experience World Health Organization
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