In 2018 the WHO published the 56 Recommendations to allow the childbirth to be a positive and not only safe experience for mothers and neonates. Among these recommendations we started to analyze what we believe are to be implemented and consolidated more urgently in Italian obstetric practice. We therefore submitted to a group of obstetricians the request to indicate the first five recommendations of a subsequent series among things not to do in the context of birth attendance because not supported by evidence of effectiveness.