Fewer women are affected by childbirth injuries in Jönköping County

Each year, about 2,000 children are born in the Jönköping County Region and between the women who give birth suffer between 20 and 30 from serious childbirth injuries.

But it is a low figure seen throughout the country.

The Region has long been targeted to reduce the number of childbirth injuries.

"We have declining numbers year on year, so it's something we do right," says midwife Maria Magnusson.

Chief Operating Officer Johan Skoglund agrees.

- It's great fun. And we know that our methods are known in the country.

The methods that the Jönköping County Region has developed together with the entire south-eastern health care region are very much about communication between the hospitals, talking about the problems of war, birth defects and learning from each other.

- But it is also a lot about training in the right technology when you release, says Johan Skoglund.

And the preventive work has produced results. The average in the country is 1.6 per cent in the case of third or fourth degree ruptures in births where no suction clock or other instruments are used.

In Jönköping, the figure is 1 percent, which is among the lowest in the country. This shows information from Sweden's municipalities and county councils.

Maria Magnusson often meets women who are worried about childbirth.

- Many people have concerns about childbirth injuries and want us to be accurate and to have control over the genital area at birth.

What should you as a midwife think about?

- It is important not to force the crucifixion and avoid the suction clock as far as possible, since it poses a risk situation for larger bursts. We work in teams around the woman and always try to be two midwives when we deliver.