Within the strategy for the care of humanized childbirth, it is increasingly sought that the woman who is going to give birth do so in a minimally medicalized environment, that sits in a climate of intimacy that makes her the true protagonist of the process.
In view of this, the Hospital de Manises, in Valencia, will open a delivery house in April imported from the model of the English 'birth center', a new space in the Obstetrics and Gynecology service in which women with pregnant women can give birth without risk.
The 'delivery houses' or 'birth houses' They are a fairly widespread concept in the United Kingdom, Germany and other European countries. They are specially designed places for women to feel comfortable in a family environment, the closest thing to what a home birth could be.
There, the woman has at her disposal all the material she may need to make her experience more comfortable such as a delivery bath, rocking chair, delivery stool, gymnastics balls or anything else that allows her to move freely and adopt the positions she wants during the delivery.
The Hospital de Manises is finalizing the decoration of the room, which will have furniture such as a house in which medical equipment will be camouflaged and modular lights will be installed.
Of course, it will not be missing in the delivery house an obstetric bathtub for dilation in water, a highly recommended method that helps to control the pain of contractions and shorten the dilation phase. There will also be loops, childbirth chairs and balloons, as well as hot showers as an alternative to pharmacological analgesia to relieve labor pain.
If the woman wishes, she can resort to the epidural, as well as be accompanied by the person she decides. It should be added that in the hospital no systematic episiotomies are performed and oxytocin is not administered to induce labor if it is not necessary.
Of course, that start giving birth homes in hospitals is great news For women seeking a more welcoming environment when giving birth and a more humanized treatment but with all medical guarantees.
