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A spontaneous vaginal delivery (SVD) occurs when a pregnant woman goes into labor with or without use of drugs or techniques to induce labor, and delivers her baby in the normal manner, without forceps, vacuum extraction, or a cesarean section.

Assisted vaginal delivery (AVD) occurs when a pregnant woman goes into labor with or without the use of drugs or techniques to induce labor, and requires the use of special instruments such as forceps or a vacuum extractor to deliver her baby vaginally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_vaginal_delivery

A spontaneous vaginal delivery (SVD) is a medical term used to describe when a pregnant woman goes into labor without the use of drugs or techniques to induce labor, and delivers her baby in the normal manner, without a cesarean section. In other words, it is the natural birth of a child, simply without the intervention of modern techniques devised by humans.

The general motive behind choosing to proceed with a SVD rather than a modern delivery is of concern over the possibility of artificial methods having an unnatural and unintended harmful effect on the infant. It is widely accepted that synthetic medical drugs have been observed to produce adverse health effects and as such the FDA attempts to enforce disclosure of these effects to consumers, when the effects are deemed statistically significant. In addition to these known risks, medication carries with it the risk of causing harm in ways not currently known or understood. Although most professionals in the medical industry would contend that such risks are often negligible, being that drug use is so common, there are however many holistic practitioners, other professionals, and members of the public which disagree with this contention and are not willing to take the risk. Afterall, an infant child is a fragile creature, intimately connected to the health of its mother.

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