Intrapartum Care: Care of Healthy Women and Their Babies During Childbirth
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Intrapartum Care: Care of Healthy Women and Their Babies During Childbirth
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The guideline is intended to cover the care of healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies entering labour at low risk of developing intrapartum complications. In addition, recommendations are included that address the care of women who start labour as ‘low risk’ but who go on to develop complications. These include the care of women with prelabour rupture of membranes at term, care of the woman and baby when meconium is present, indications for continuous cardiotocography, interpretation of cardiotocography traces, and management of retained placenta and postpartum haemorrhage. Aspects of intrapartum care for women at risk of developing intrapartum complications are covered by a range of guidelines on specific conditions (see section 1.8) and a further guideline is planned on intrapartum care of women ‘at high risk’ of complications during pregnancy and the intrapartum period.
Copyright © 2014 National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health.
Sections
- Guideline Development Group membership and acknowledgements
- Guideline development group membership and acknowledgements 2014
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Summary of recommendations and care pathway
- 3. Place of birth
- 4. Care throughout labour
- 5. Latent phase
- 6. Initial assessment at the onset of labour
- 7. Prelabour rupture of membranes at term
- 8. Coping with pain in labour – non-epidural
- 9. Pain relief in labour: regional analgesia
- 10. Monitoring during labour
- 11. First stage of labour
- 12. Second stage of labour
- 13. Third stage of labour
- 14. Care of the baby and woman immediately after birth
- 15. Glossary and abbreviations
- 16. References
- Appendices
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