The Obstetric Violence Paradigm and the Lack of Humanization in Birth

Abstract

Obstetric violence began to be debated in 2007 in social areas, despite the fact that intolerable acts related to childbirth had already been seen worldwide. This study aims to demonstrate the importance of obstetric violence, as it is not consented by the woman and ends up being silenced by both patients and health professionals. This research is an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative literature review since it aims to understand the importance of the mentioned topic. The literature shows that obstetric violence includes factors such as aggressive management of vaginal delivery with the use of oxytocin to accelerate the process; negligence of health professionals in not helping the woman who expresses her suffering through words and tears. Therefore, this must be studied so that health professionals and undergraduates in the areas of women's health care become humanized, thus being able to bring information and comfort to pregnant women so that they stop suffering undue acts. during childbirth and puerperium.