Essential Childbirth Care Course Module 1. Introduction - Facilitator's Guide

Overview

The Essential Childbirth Care Course (ECBC) is focused on the midwifery model of care, which puts women, newborns and their families at the center, ensures continuity of care, and prevents unnecessary interventions, yet ensures lifesaving actions.

The ECBC provides innovative, fun, and challenging in-service adult education for the care of healthy women, and their healthy newborns, but is also available as an addition to pre-service education. It supports life-long learning in compassionate midwifery care in all settings, everywhere.

The goal of this guide is to support facilitators to enable learners to implement WHO recommendations and tools for evidence-based midwifery care for women and their newborns during labour, childbirth and the immediate postnatal period.