Rights of Childbearing Women…
1. Healthcare
2. Care consistent with scientific evidence
3. Choose a midwife or physician
4. Choose her birth setting from the full range of safe options
5. Leave her maternity caregiver and select another
6. Information about professional identity and qualifications
7. Communicate with caregivers and receive care in privacy
8. Care that identifies and addresses social and behavioral factors
9. Full and clear information about benefits, risks, and costs of procedures, drugs, tests and treatment
10. Accept or refuse procedures, drugs, tests and treatment
11. Be informed of her caregivers wish to enroll her or her infant in a research study
12. Unrestricted access to available records
13. Maternity care that is appropriate to her cultural and religious background
14. Have family members and friends of her choice present
15. Continuous social, emotional and physical support from a caregiver trained in labor support
16. Full advance information about risk and benefits – available alternatives
17. Freedom of movement-birth in positon of choice
18. Uninterrupted contact with newborn as long as she and her baby are healthy
19. Receive information about benefits of breastfeeding- access to lactation consultant
20. Decide collaboratively with care givers when she and her baby will leave the birth site for home based on conditions and circumstances
*download complete source: www.childbirthconnection.org/rights
1. Healthcare
2. Care consistent with scientific evidence
3. Choose a midwife or physician
4. Choose her birth setting from the full range of safe options
5. Leave her maternity caregiver and select another
6. Information about professional identity and qualifications
7. Communicate with caregivers and receive care in privacy
8. Care that identifies and addresses social and behavioral factors
9. Full and clear information about benefits, risks, and costs of procedures, drugs, tests and treatment
10. Accept or refuse procedures, drugs, tests and treatment
11. Be informed of her caregivers wish to enroll her or her infant in a research study
12. Unrestricted access to available records
13. Maternity care that is appropriate to her cultural and religious background
14. Have family members and friends of her choice present
15. Continuous social, emotional and physical support from a caregiver trained in labor support
16. Full advance information about risk and benefits – available alternatives
17. Freedom of movement-birth in positon of choice
18. Uninterrupted contact with newborn as long as she and her baby are healthy
19. Receive information about benefits of breastfeeding- access to lactation consultant
20. Decide collaboratively with care givers when she and her baby will leave the birth site for home based on conditions and circumstances
*download complete source: www.childbirthconnection.org/rights
