Step 1: offers all birthing mothers unrestricted access to birth companions, labor support, professional midwifery care: the coalition for improving maternity services:.
The first step of the Ten Steps of Mother-Friendly Care insures that women have access to a wide variety of support in labor and during the pregnancy and postpartum periods: unrestricted access to birth companions of their choice, including family and friends; unrestricted access to continuous emotional and physical support from a skilled woman such as a doula; and access to midwifery care. The rationales for the importance of each factor and the evidence to support those rationales are presented.
MAYRI SAGADY LESLIE is a faculty member in the School of Nursing at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and the former Director of the Nurse-Midwifery Service and Birth Center at the University of California at San Diego . SHARON STORTON is a psychotherapist who specializes in women's mental health and trauma recovery. She is also a member of the CIMS Leadership Team.
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