In 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified birth plans in the cop category of practices that are clearly useful and should be promoted. A decade prior to this classification, WHO (1985) urged a review of the biomedical model of care during pregnancy and childbirth, which tended toward interventionism and medicalization in developed countries. Consequenty, in its subsequent 1996 recommendations for care in normal birth, WHO deemed it inappropriate to overuse certain practices and interventions such as early maniotomy, routine use of oxtocin, lithotomy positomy position for the expulsion phase, routine use of episiotomy, continuous electronic fetal monitoring during labor in normal condicions, and separation of the newborn forn its mother. A growing amount of research indicates that, rather than increasing safety, unnecessary use of technology in child birth leads to iatrogenesis, increases the rate of cesarean and instrumented births, and interferes with establishing the bond between mother and child (General Directorate of Public Health, 2007).