The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has run an initiative since 2005 encouraging expectant mothers to give birth without medical interventions including epidurals, inductions and caesareans. Approximately 40% of mothers give birth without medical interventions, compared to three decades ago when 60% did so. “What we don’t want to do is in any way contribute to any sense that a woman has failed because she hasn’t had a normal birth. The nature of these problems is serious and shocking.”Warwick said she did not believe midwives would have looked at the “normal births” campaign and thought it meant pushing normal birth “beyond the point of safety. “This was a top-down, blunt campaign designed to influence how midwives made decisions at absolutely critical moments.

Source: The Guardian August 11, 2017 23:28 UTC