Unnecessary practices in childbirth?

We were talking precisely about the circumstances in which the delivery care does not meet the real medical needs and is carried out unnecessary practices in childbirth.

I leave this interesting video that explains these issues. In it we can listen to midwife Inma Marcos, one of the pioneers in the care of natural childbirth in Spain and Dr. Enriqueta Barranco, who explains very well to a mother her intervened birth. Attorney Francisca Fernandez also tells us that the law defends the freedom and health of women, and also their rights as a patient over the protocols.

The birth care protocols they do that, in many Spanish hospitals and around the world, there is still excessive intervention but there are also more and more centers and professionals who work to achieve more humanized care at birth, applying medication, acceleration or interventions only when they are really necessary, and not by custom or internal regulations.

The rates of caesarean section, episiotomy, intervened delivery and use of medication to speed up labor remain very high, in some frankly shocking hospitals. Caesarean section, episiotomy, shaving, enema or the application of synthetic oxytocin are sometimes necessary, but others are routine as advised by the World Health Organization itself.

And, although we have made great progress with the protocols for Normal Childbirth, it is still necessary to make further progress to maintain security at birth but without using unnecessary technology and practices in childbirth. Listening to the professionals and mothers of this video are very clarifying.