The routine use of intravenous fluids, restrictionson eating and drinking, continuous electronic fetal

monitoring, epidural analgesia, and augmentation of labor characterize most U.S. births. The use of
episiotomy is far from restrictive. reports that for women who gave birth from June 2011 to June 2012,
89% of women experienced electronic fetal monitoring (66% continuously), 62% received intravenous
fluids, 79% experienced restrictions on eating, and 60% experienced restrictions on drinking in labor.
Sixty-seven percent of women who gave birth vaginally had an epidural in labor, and 31% were given
Pitocin to speed up their labors. Twenty percent of women had their membranes artificially ruptured.
Seventeen percent of women had an episiotomy, and 31% had a caesarean.These interventions disturb
the normal physiology of labor and birth and restrict womens ability to cope with labor. The high use of
these interventions reflects a system-wide maternity care philosophy of expecting trouble. There is an
increasing body of research that suggests that the routine use of each of these interventions, rather
than decreasing the risk of trouble in labor and birth, actually increases complications for both women
and their babies. The purpose of this article is to review the literature related to the evidence base and
the outcomes associated with the interventions routinely used in labor and birth in the United States.
The findings make the case for the value of maternity care that avoids the use of routine interventions.

This research study will improve our nursing practice by having profound and comprehensive knowledge
about the interventions during the delivery.This study will also aid in eradicating or avoiding nursing
practices that are not really essential intervention unless they are medically necessary. This research
study will help ensuring the delivery of the baby as safe and healthy as possible by avoiding unnecessary
intervention.
Things that are taught in class are constantly changing. Ideas that were taught years ago may not be
reliable anymore because it was contradicted by recent studies. In order for you to give quality nursing
care, you need to be updated to new ideas. This research study helps us in updating our knowledge
about the recent information that will help us in our study
In Philippine setting,I think it would be difficult to accept this ideas because we are accustomed to such
practices/interventions like episiotomy for such a long time. It will take a lot of time and additional back
up researches to put this concepts into action. But I see potential that Philippines may able to adapt this
ideas and to carry out in practices little by little. At the present, Philippines is now carrying out the
concept of letting the women eat and drink prior to the delivery.
I think there is a possibility that they may able to adapt this ideas and carry out it in practices.
In general,