Introduced on 1st of January 2019, the new standard of the perinatal care brings benefits not only for the woman herself, but also significant profits and tasks for the medical personnel. It provides an appropriate and uniform work organization while guaranteeing the safety of the patients and the personnel who follow the accepted standards. In addition, it significantly raises the importance of the midwife's profession, indicating its place in the structure of care for physiological pregnancy, a childbirth, a puerperium and a newborn. The purpose of the work was to present the most interesting and important aspects that were presented in the current standard of dealing with pregnant and delivery women. The midwife's profession is an independent profession undertaking activities promoting active delivery, non-pharmacological methods of alleviating delivery pain and thus striving to reduce medicalisation.

Key words: standard, midwife, perinatal care.