Indhold: Introduction ; Summary of recommendations and care pathway ; Planning place of birth ; Care throughout labour ; Coping with pain in labour: non-epidural ; Pain relief in labour: regional analgesia ; Normal labour: first stage ; Normal labour: second stage ; Normal labour: thrid stage ; Normal labour: care of the baby and woman immediately after birth ; Prelabour rupture of membranes at term ; Meconium-stained liquor ; Complicated labour: monitoring babies in labour ; Complicated labour: first stage ; Complicated labour: second stage ; Complicated labour: immediate care of newborn ; Complicated labour: third stagernAppendix: Declarations of interest ; Clinical questions ; Selection criteria and validity scores for included and excluded studies for the systematic review comparing planned home birth and planned hospital birth and the systematic review comparing planned standalone midwife-led unit and obstetric unit birth ; NCC-WCH analysis to obtain the best estimate of intrapartum-related perinatal mortality in England and Wales ; Decision tree modelling framework to assess cost-effectiveness for place of birth ; Economic evaluation for ST analysis