#357 | Back to Basics: Birth Planning 2.0

About this episode

The episode revisits the importance of using evidence-based care in birth planning and challenges the notion that interventions are necessary.

Six seasons later, we are revisiting one of our first episodes of this podcast: Using evidence-based care to plan your birth. Much of what happens in labor is presented as standard, routine, or unavoidable—but that doesn’t mean it’s evidence-based. Birth care hasn’t become more complex because women need more intervention. It’s become more complex because intervention has become the default. If you’ve ever wondered whether what’s happening in labor is truly backed by research—or simply ...

Topics covered

• birth planning
• evidence-based care
• labor
• intervention

Keywords

• birth
• care
• complexity
• research

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