219Obstetric Violence: Between Recognition of Rights and Trust in Transformation

Obstetric violence denotes the mistreatment, abuse, or neglect that women may endure during childbirth, frequently perpetrated by healthcare pro fessionals.The concepts of trust and transformation are pivotal in addressing this phenomenon and in restoring the historically rooted relationship between women, their bodies, and midwifery care.Traditionally, this bond was embedded within culturally rich frameworks, wherein childbirth knowledge and practices were trans mitted orally across generations.However, the contemporary predominance of highly medicalised-and at times coercive -approaches to childbirth has signi ficantly eroded this trust, disrupting the relational continuity between birthing individuals and their caregivers.