Yes, their 10 steps are different. A mother friendly hospital, birth center or home birth service:

1. offers all mothers unrestricted access to birth companions, labor support and professional midwifery care.
2. provides accurate descriptive and statistical information to the public about the practices and procedures for birth, including measures of interventions and outcomes.
3. provides culturally competent care, that is, care that is sensitive and responsive to specific beliefs, values and customs of the mother's ethnicity and religion.
4. provides the birthing woman with the freedom to walk, move about and assume the positions of her choice during labor and birth (unless restriction is specifically required to correct a complication) and discourages the use of the lithotomy (Flat on back with legs elevated) position.
5.has clearly defined policies and procedures for collaborating with other maternity services and linking the mother and baby to appropriate community resources during both the prenatal and postpartum periods.
6. does not routinely employ practices and procedures that are unsupported by scientific evidence.

7,educates staff in non drug methods of pain relief, and does not promote the use of analgesic or anesthetic drugs not specifically requires to correct a complication,
8.encourages all mothers and families, including those with sick or premature newborns or ionfants with congenital problems to touch, hold, breastfeed and care for their babies to the extent compatible with their conditions.
9. discourages non religious circumcision of the newborn. 

10. strives to achieve the WHO/UNICEF "Baby Friendly Hospital Designation.


Each step has individual policies to achieve the goals of the step and the appendix has 8 questionnaires to use.



It is by Barbara A. Hotelling & Helen A. Gordon, Springer Publishing, 2014.


 

 




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