Translation of "accouchement par forceps bas " (French → English) :

However, since the Commission and the Council have agreed on a redefinition of objectives, focusing on a pragmatic 'all-hazard approach' to the Union's critical infrastructure, they must complete their clarification efforts and avoid using an extremely ambitious title to hide what is a much more limited reality. And that reality is that it was only with great difficulty that the governments reached a financial agreement, which actually fell far short of the wishes expressed by Parliament and - what is more serious - of what was needed to pursue the objectives which the European Union had set itself, among which the establishment of an ar ...[+++]ea of freedom, security and justice was high on the agenda.

Accordingly, this directive needs to provide protection on the one hand for men and women wishing to have or having young children or dependants requiring special care and, on the other, take account of the specific conditions experienced by women during and after pregnancy, so that there is no discrimination against such persons, whose situations make them more vulnerable in the harsh reality of the world of work.

In the Netherlands, specially trained postnatal assistants help out mothers at home for several hours a day during the first ten days after they give birth.

The perinatal mortality rates in France and the Netherlands are fairly similar (8.2% and 8.4% respectively in 1996); yet, while in France most children are born in a hospital, almost a third of births in the Netherlands take place at home (although hospital births have become much more common in the last 30 years).

There, 25% of women giving birth for the first time are HIV-positive, and more than 30% of women giving birth in maternity wards at the local hospital are also HIV-positive.