The term "natural childbirth" denotes an approach to childbirth characterised by a bias towards physical and mental hygiene in the management of pregnancy and labour. It emerged in Britain in the interwar period, partly as a response to the growing interventionism of mainstream obstetrics. Its appeal since then has rested on the belief that it could provide a holistic approach to maternity care...

objectives comparing the effects of spontaneous pushing in the lateral position with the valsalva maneuver during the second stage of labor on maternal and fetal outcomes. methods inclusion criteria in this randomized clinical trial conducted in iran were as follows: nulliparous mothers, live fetus with vertex presentation, gestational age of 37 - 40 weeks, spontaneous labor, and no complicatio...

Background Childbearing for the first time is a unique experience. Quality of life is an important indicator in health studies. This study aimed to assess the quality of life of women who were conceived by ARTs and had successful childbirth for the first time and to compare it with quality of life in women who become pregnant naturally and similarly had successful childbirth for the first time....

The term “natural childbirth” denotes an approach to childbirth characterised by a bias towards physical and mental hygiene in the management of pregnancy and labour. It emerged in Britain in the interwar period, partly as a response to the growing interventionism of mainstream obstetrics. Its appeal since then has rested on the belief that it could provide a holistic approach to maternity care...

Objective: Change of healthcare model in normal childbirth, health authorities interest in exploring childbirth expectations of pregnant women, and their cultural and social specificity make relevant the study of these expectations at this moment. The aim is to know what are the childbirth expectations from a sample of Spanish pregnant women and to study the differences between primiparous and ...

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT the 1997 Safe Motherhood Initiative effectively eliminated support for training traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in safe childbirth. Despite this, TBAs are still active in many countries such as Bangladesh, where 88% of deliveries occur at home. Renewed interest in community-based approaches and the urgent need to improve birth care has necessitated a re-examination of...

In this era of overnight successes and fast fading fads the philosophy of childbirth conditioning (or natural childbirth), as it is more commonly known, has taken almost thirty years to get to its present point of recognition. It was an over-powering zealist, Grantly Dick Read of England, who developed the idea and by his persistence and enthusiasm against a great deal of opposition, has made t...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the use of epidural analgesia and experienced pain during childbirth after a short antenatal training course in self-hypnosis to ease childbirth. DESIGN Randomised, controlled, single-blinded trial using a three-arm design. SETTING Aarhus University Hospital Skejby in Denmark during the period July 2009 until August 2011. POPULATION A total of 1222 healthy nulliparou...

delivery. In such circumstances, he argued, childbirth occurred quickly, with few complications, limited discomfort, and little need for the medical intervention that had become a regular part of modern obstetrical practice. For Dick-Read a "natural birth" transcended medicine, having important social, if not religious, connotations. A pleasant and uncomplicated delivery, he believed, best prep...