FOLLOWING the letter ‘Welcome news’, (GDN, August 17), much has been made recently about giving birth and whether it should be natural or with medical intervention.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that 80 per cent of women should be low risk at the start of labour, and that “the uncritical adoption of a range of unhelpful, untimely, inappropriate and/or unnecessary interventions, all too frequently poorly evaluated, is a risk run by many who try to improve the maternity services” .