Comparing the Outcomes of Physiologic Delivery with Non-Physiologic Delivery Group

Background: the main purpose of physiologic delivery is to rely onmother’s body for childbirth. in physiologic delivery method pregnantwomen attend delivery preparation classes and they learn how toovercome fear and pain. this study compares delivery outcomes amongwomen who participated in physiologic delivery with those who hadundergone non-physiologic delivery.methods: all patients referred for physiologic delivery were assessed.exclusion criteria were lack of prom, post date, cephalopelvicdisproportion, multi-fetal pregnancy, meconium stain, blood pressureabove 90/140, placenta previa and previous record of cesarean. datawas entered in spss 16 software and fisher and chi-square tests wereused to compare vaginal laceration, episiotomy and apgar score betweentwo groups.results: twelve out of 73 pregnant women (16.4%) in physiologicdelivery group and 27 out of 69 pregnant women (39.1%) innon-physiologic delivery group needed episiotomy (p = 0.002). tenpatients (13.7%) in physiologic delivery group and seven persons (10.1%)in the non-physiologic delivery group were suffering from vaginallaceration (p = 0.51). there was no signifi cant statistical differencebetween newborns’ apgar score in two groups.conclusions: physiologic delivery can reduce the need for episiotomywithout any further complications.