What is “maternity ward violence”? Let’s take a look at how maternity ward violence is described and defined in foreign countries. In the eyes of patients, “labor room violence” includes verbal violence, psychological violence, and physical violence. The characteristics of this “violence” are inappropriate (no evidence or indication), uninformed (no information and informed consent), and uncontrolled (medical staff dominates and the patient has no ability to refuse). 1. Characteristics of the labor and delivery room: unfamiliar environment, unfamiliar doctors, unfamiliar midwives, unfamiliar waiting and delivery process, uncertainty of the delivery process and outcome, all of which make most pregnant women particularly apprehensive, insecure, and vulnerable to psychological harm 2. “Verbal violence”: the verbal aspect of harm includes and is not only limited to threats, reprimands, shouting, belittling, lying, manipulation, ridicule, etc. 3, “psychological violence”: sometimes, medical personnel do not need to speak at all to bring psychological harm to the mother. For example, ignoring, condescending attitude and expression, scornful look, impatient look, etc. 4. “Physical violence”: In addition to “verbal violence” and “psychological violence”, there are many obstetric interventions and behaviors that are considered to be “physical violence”. For example, medical practices without informed consent, obstetric procedures, obstetric operations and obstetric medications without evidence-based medical evidence, treatment against the patient’s will, and failure to provide appropriate analgesia when indicated. Labor and delivery violence is often not explicit and exists in a professional form, in fact, the harm it brings to women is no less than the harm caused by domestic violence. When faced with the authority of professionals, there is basically nothing you can do except complain or passively accept it. In most cases, these behaviors will be interpreted as a service attitude problem, and even if a complaint is filed, it will be handled according to the general process. From the perspective of some medical professionals, most of the so-called “labor and delivery room violence” is imagined and exaggerated. The starting point for medical staff to do these things is good, mainly for the safety of children and adults, even if some operations are somewhat traumatic, or necessary, in exchange for greater safety and security of the mother and child. The medical staff and you have no grievances, why would they want to deliberately hurt you? Please understand and cooperate with the goodwill and kindness of obstetricians and midwives. The concept of “maternity ward violence” comes from abroad, what is the situation in China? What percentage of women would be dissatisfied with their birth experience and believe they have experienced “labor and delivery violence” if a survey was conducted? In fact, most obstetricians and midwives act with good intentions, but because they are accustomed to their professional authority role in the doctor-patient relationship and are too busy clinically, they lack effective communication with patients and neglect the necessary informed consent process, resulting in many interventions without informed consent that leave the mother psychologically and physically harmed. In fact, most patients will understand and accept these interventions if we spend more time communicating with them, and then these necessary interventions will not cause psychological harm to the patient and become “labor room violence. If the situation is really urgent, emergency measures can be implemented while providing effective information and informed consent to the patient and family, and asking for their understanding and cooperation. However, medications and surgical procedures that are not indicated and not based on evidence are still essentially “violence”. Because of the authority of the physician, it is easy to get the patient to “consent” to these interventions, and they may seem less “violent” and “barbaric”.