What is not yet clear is the relative contribution to birth outcomes of health professionals» attitudes, continuity of carer, midwife managed or community based care, and implementation of specific practices (such as continuous
emotional and physical support throughout
labour, use of immersion in water to ease
labour pain, encouraging women to remain upright and mobile, minimising use of epidural analgesia, and home visits to diagnose
labour before admission to birth centre or hospital).
The wrongful birth claim will provide damages for the physical and
emotional pain, distress of an unwanted pregnancy and
labour and any additional re-sterilisation procedure.