«Although we do not have data, it is understood that lack of
routine obstetric care will have a significant negative impact on maternal and newborn outcomes,» says Lisa Jane Thomas, a WHO medical officer who worked in Liberia for the past six weeks.
Not exact matches
In Spain,
obstetric care includes
routine enemas, pubic shaving, and episiotomy, procedures that are not evidence based and which ignore the WHO's guidelines on the
care of women in labour.
* Women report difficulties in accessing intermittent monitoring in some
obstetric led maternity units due to
routine policy and the individual beliefs or perceptions of risk from health
care providers.
Currently I'm the one providing continuity of
care to most of our
obstetric patients, and, as a GP, they can come and see me as often as they like, not just the fixed
routine antenatal appointment schedule.
Cheryl Beck wrote that, «Birth trauma lies in the eye of the beholder,» elaborating that what the mother perceives as a traumatic birth, may be seen as a
routine delivery by
obstetric care providers (Beck, 2004).
They subsequently received
routine intrapartum and postnatal
obstetric care.
Group 1 was the control group and women received
routine antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal
obstetric care with no special intervention applied.