2023-09-18 14:15:45
By Pauline Léna
Published 2 hours ago, Updated 4 minutes ago
AMELIE-BENOIST/BSIP via AFP
DECRYPTION – Maternity hospitals strive to limit the use of procedures considered invasive by women. But taking care never to jeopardize their safety…
More than 90% of women in France say they are satisfied, or even very satisfied, with their medical care during pregnancy and childbirth, according to the latest national perinatal survey in 2021. This figure reflects the efforts made to reduce overly systematic recourse to certain technical gestures that are sometimes irrelevant and considered too invasive by parturients. Professionals have heard the request of women, who must now be systematically questioned about the method of delivery they prefer.
Because this feeling of not being listened to gave rise to a dangerous fashion: “There was a somewhat “bobo” tendency to want giving birth at home againwith some midwives who lent themselves a littleindicates Professor Céline Chauleur, head of the gynecology-obstetrics department at Saint-Étienne University Hospital. And we, male and female practitioners, absolutely did not want it because it is an unacceptable risk for the patient, which would make us…
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