Europe is wrong. WHO is wrong. Everyone who defends that childbirth does not require a scalpel and midwives and gynecologists who attend home births safely are wrong. He flex ad It should be considered as possible misleading advertising and home births are real crazy things that carry very serious risks.
This is what transpires from SEGO statement, Spanish Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics, chaired by Doctor Bajo Arenas.
"It could be a deceptive act of publicity, given that this announcement can lead people to believe that a birth in their own home is better than in a hospital, thus leading to error among the recipients of this publicity"
He Dr. Bajo Arenas, in an editorial published in the magazine for gynecologists that the SEGO publishes, adds its opinions on home births, opinions that would be fine, I think, that at the same time of launching them it will contrast them with the unquestionable data of the countries in which Home birth is common and paid by Social Security, data that reveal that the terrifying consequences that it cites do not occur in them.
“Deliveries in pallets, without specialized attention and outside specialized centers where you can intervene, we already know what they entail. High rates of maternal and perinatal mortality, dystocia not diagnosed with detained deliveries and rectovaginal fistulas that hypothetize the woman's life ”.
In my opinion the image that Flex's announcement He has offered Spanish society in general has greatly disturbed Dr. Arenas. I do not believe that this announcement encourages deliveries in "jergones" without assistance, nor that women are going to launch, as if they were childish or ignorant, to decide this option without assessing all the possibilities. I do not understand, really. What he says, in my humble opinion, does not hold.
"Hopefully the weight of justice falls on those responsible if there is a death of a mother or a child without having put the means to avoid it."
Well, of course. I also. I also hope that the full weight of justice falls on those responsible for hospital deliveries in which negligence is verified as a result of death. It would be more.
In any case, Bajo Arenas is confident that pregnant women and their partners will be responsible.
"They have the ability to discern and choose a more appropriate option within hospital facilities, where they can attend them favorably, in case of complications."
I, more simply, I hope that mothers and fathers inform themselves and decide on their safe and humane birth option.
Anyway, I still hope to one day post a comment on a press release from the Dr. Bajo Arenas on the scandalous figures of episotomies, caesarean sections and intervened deliveries of the Spanish obstetrics, or on the birth care protocol of the Puertollano Hospital with its 50% cesarean section rate. I think they are issues that fall within your responsibility.
The truth is that I expect more seriousness from a society like SEGO than entertaining in commenting on advertisements that are not meant to be scientific studies.
Meanwhile I wish Dr. Bajo Arenas to travel more. Surely you can learn a lot if you go to Holland.
