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How to safely demedicalize childbirth

2023-09-18T10:16:04.600Z

Highlights: Maternity hospitals are trying to limit the use of gestures deemed invasive by women. But being careful never to compromise their safety. More than 90% of women in France say they are satisfied or very satisfied with their medical care during pregnancy and childbirth. This figure reflects the efforts made to reduce the overly systematic use of certain technical gestures that are sometimes irrelevant and considered too invasive in childbirth. "There was a tendency a little "bobo" to want to give birth again at home," says P Céline Chauleur, head of the gynecology-obstetrics department of the CHU of Saint-Étienne.


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More than 90% of women in France say they are satisfied or very satisfied with their medical care during pregnancy and childbirth, according to the latest national perinatal survey of 2021. This figure reflects the efforts made to reduce the overly systematic use of certain technical gestures that are sometimes irrelevant and considered too invasive by women in childbirth. Professionals have listened to the request of women, who must now be systematically questioned about the mode of delivery they prefer.

Because this feeling of not being listened to was a dangerous fashion: "There was a tendency a little "bobo" to want to give birth again at home, with midwives who lent themselves a little bit, says P Céline Chauleur, head of the gynecology-obstetrics department of the CHU of Saint-Étienne. And we, male and female practitioners, did not want it at all because it is an unacceptable risk for the patient, which would make us ...

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