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Tangible benefits reaped when women support women in labor.
2003 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women who have a supporter with them throughout labor have much more positive experiences of childbirth. They are also less likely to need painkillers or have any form of surgical intervention.
This is according to a new Cochrane review of 15 trials that collected data from nearly 13,000 women.
The benefit is greatest if the supporter is not a member of hospital staff, and when the women are in situations where epidural painkillers are not routinely available, such as home-deliveries, found Ellen Hodnett, RN, PhD, and coauthors (Continuous support for women during childbirth (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library, 2003; Issue 3).
The research shows that using nurses or midwives to provide this support may not be as effective because they are often highly influenced by the technology-driven culture of the delivery suite. Since the middle of the 20th century there ...
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