Have you heard of a 'natural birth'?
wrote a book by the same name suggesting that childbirth wasn’t inherently painful and that medication should be avoided. In modern medicine, though, the phrase doesn’t mean much to doctors and nurses.
“There isn’t a formal medical definition for ‘natural birth,’ as most medical providers perceive the process of labor and delivery as a natural process,” Dr. Yvonne Butler Tobah, an OB-GYN at the Mayo Clinic, told . She added that, generally speaking, when people use the term “natural birth,” they're referring to a full-term patient spontaneously laboring and using relaxation and breathing techniques to manage pain.“The gold standard for delivery of a birthing person with
is a cesarean delivery,” Tobah pointed out. “If a vaginal delivery is attempted in a patient with placenta previa, she and the baby will have life-threatening hemorrhaging and other severe complications.”
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