Sentences with phrase «labour and birth whilst»

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Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.

Most first births are slower than actively managed maternity units would like and so labours in hospitals get hurried along by either physical or chemical means, and whilst most babies can cope well with this artificial speeding up of the labour, some find it a challenge and become distressed requiring further interventions.

In such a case, would it not be better to allow gravity, i.e; the birth mother standing and moving whilst in labour, to take charge rather than the birthing mother instead lying on her back in an ambulance and then hospital along with the accompanying substantial increase in stress levels?I suppose all I am trying to say is that IF my partner and I were to have a second baby, I really would like to support my partner once more in having a home birth.