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For decades, women have been encouraged to give birth naturally聽鈥 that means avoiding all medicines and interventions, including continuous monitoring of the baby鈥檚 heart rate and caesarean sections.
But now, several events suggest the pendulum is swinging back the other way. In May, the UK鈥檚 Royal College of Midwives (RCM) quietly cancelled a long-standing campaign to promote natural births. Separately, doctors are beginning their own more proactive approach to ensuring interventions happen as soon as they are needed. And campaigners have formed a new pressure group called 鈥淢aternity Outcomes Matter鈥…
