A week ago we published an entry with a video of about five minutes entitled "It is not the same to give birth: the differences between a natural birth and an instrumental video." This entry received very different comments (in terms of criticism and support), as it showed two types of delivery with a fairly clear intent: to leave very well the natural birth and not so well the instrumentalized delivery.
After more than a hundred comments in that post (perhaps a record has been broken), not without controversy, I came to say, in one of my last interventions, that luckily, we said what we said, whatever our opinion about the deliveries, whether we like it or not, the luck was that in Spanish hospitals there was an unequivocal tendency to promote natural childbirth.
Two days ago, watching the news of TVE I could see a mini-report on childbirth, which you can see on the RTVE website, which I liked because I could see that my words were confirmed: Natural childbirth is already a trend and an objective in Spanish hospitals.
As you can see in the video, the birth plan, that instrument that seemed to be used by a few women (often called “crazy people who don't think about the health of their baby”), who were those few who knew what it was better for a delivery to go well, if there was no risk to health (most births), because they had read about it and because they knew that in other countries, which are more advanced than us, it was done like this, it is being implanted In the hospitals. As you can see in the video, in one of the visits they ask you to fill it out: "Tell us how you want to give birth".
You can also see how They have adapted the delivery rooms so that women can adopt more vertical positions, offering them instruments to mitigate discomfort during dilation such as the ball, for example, or freedom of movement (when you arrived before, you lay down and waited).
But the most important part of the documentary is everyone's speech, which focuses on the need to give the mother the prominence, to give her information, to make her feel able to give birth and, as for the direct attention of professionals, to wait and not to treat all births as if they were, at the outset, high risk.
Video | RTVE
Photo | Jon Ovington on Flickr On Babies and more | A vaginal birth is not the same as a natural birth, What the WHO advises for a normal delivery, What the WHO advises against in a normal birth
