Evidence-based recommendations for achieving humanized Birth

Abstract

Introduction: The change in healthcare paradigm has brought many transformations, between them women's empowerment in taking back their rights and control over birth. This is known as respected birth. Chile, in contrast to other countries, has not incorporated these regulations into law. World Healthcare Organization made guidelines with evidence-based recommendations for achieving respected birth. Objective: Generate recommendations and proposal for respected birth at the Chilean public health system. Methodology: directed bibliographic review of main topics addressed in literature and evidence that supports them. Results: Active labor should be defined over 5 cm of dilation, use intermittent auscultation, manage pain according women desires, favor movement, immediate skin-to-skin contact, delayed umbilical cord clamping, and restrict episiotomies, amniotomies, caesarians and vaginal examinations. Conclusions: Following evidence-based recommendations will contribute to achieve respected birth, given that many of interventions considered as obstetric violence or that are not contributing to a respected birth are not evidence-based, and therefore represent unnecessary interventions for the parturition process.