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The humanization of birth

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  • 1Department of Midwifery, Children's and Women's Hospital of British Columbia and Providence Health Care (St Paul's), Vancouver, Canada.

International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics: the Official Organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
|December 18, 2001
PubMed

The humanization of birth conference drew more than 2000 people from 26 countries. This article summarizes the conference. In much of the world women have learned to fear birth; this fear is represented by the increase in cesarean section rates seen in many countries. The humanization of birth may reduce this fear. Yet humanization is difficult to achieve in technocratic societies. It is important to recognize that safety and self-fulfilling experiences are not contradictions, and that humanized birth is the safest approach.

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