Childbirth Facts

    “Large-scale prospective North American studies show that few healthy low-risk mothers require technology-intensive care when given good support for physiologic labor, yet the typical childbirth experience has been transformed into a morass of wires, tubes, machines, and medications that leave healthy women immobilized, vulnerable to high levels of surgery and burdened with health concerns while caring for their newborns.”

    source: LTM II 2006