During the process of natural child labour, most of women suffers some kind of perineal trauma when they go into natural childbirth labor, due to spontaneous perineum lacerations or episiotomies. The objective of this study of quantitative and descriptive approach is to document the number of perineal traumas occurred in women during natural childbirths in a hospital institution. This study was created based on 279 files of women who delivered their babies by natural birth a hospital institution that practiced tradicional obstetricsduring a period from July to December 2006. In 11,82% of the cases no lesions were reported. The episiotomy was practiced in 86,99% of the women and 3,25% suffered episiotomy and perineal lacerations in 1 and 2 degrees, 9,76% of the women had their perineum intact. The practice of the episiotomy was not justified in the files and it is practiced as a routine without any selective criteria by the institution, demonstrating that the disrespect to human rights of women still persists.
Natural Childbirth; Perineum; Episiotomy; Women's health
