“Born at home"Or rather," Who was born at home? "Is a curious publication available on Amazon that brings us closer to home birth, something that until recently was the most common, and that the author, Corie Feiner, wanted to spread later of the birth of his own son in the home.
The work is focused on showing us the stories of illustrious Americans: poets, educators, inventors, adventurers and politicians who were born at home as the author discovered after visiting the places where they came to the world and the museums where their houses have become.
During the last century, in Western countries, birth was moved to hospitals and treated, rather than as a natural process, as a disease that, almost inevitably, should be treated as a mortal danger. Today the trend is changing and the greatest medical experts have understood that, although we must never fail to take into account the safety and the possibility of a problem, normal delivery is not a disease and can be attended in homes or delivery houses , as in fact already happens in Holland or Great Britain.
The truth is that, in my closest environment, it is usual for children to be born at home or in centers specialized in natural childbirth. And I would prefer, if possible, to give birth at home.
When the experiences of these women are heard, and the professionals who have attended them are known, the fear is lost and it is trusted that, if emergency care or pregnancy is advised against home delivery, the hospital will go to the hospital.
The direct knowledge of all those mothers and gynecologists like my dear Emilio Santos and many midwives with very up-to-date training makes me see it as something completely normal and a respectable and safe option.
I would avoid going to a hospital if it was not necessary
On the other hand, when a woman goes to the hospital hoping she won't have unnecessary interventions that lead to problems in childbirth or separate her from her son, I stay with my soul in suspense until I can talk to her and she tells me if “she has had Good luck with the team that turn. ” It must be that I have read too much and that I have become very critical with the attention to childbirth in Spain, to which I admit a general improvement, but that still seems to me insufficient.
The episiotomy example
Ten years ago Episiotomy rates in Spain were scandalous. But that does not mean, logically, that the vast majority of Spanish females had a genital problem that prevented us from giving birth without tearing apart dangerously. The point is that it was decided that making a cut to all was the way to prevent the possibility of a tear. All women who wanted to have a child would pay that price, that of living with a cut in their genitals. How did we accept it without even asking?
Pure common sense should have guided these doctors before decreeing that all Spanish women should pay the price of a cut in our sex, painful and sometimes with consequences forever, because Nature could not have designed us so badly.
When we started asking if that was necessary, the reaction was very negative. We had no right to ask, to question professionals, to demand different treatment. We had to put up with the "cortecito" and we couldn't even ask without being labeled as ignorant or hysterical.
Tears exist, but with adequate preparation and non-aggressive delivery management, the danger is reduced enough to discourage this "short" in sex for all today. What a professional should know today is to avoid tearing, minimize it and intervene only if necessary. Not by protocol.
Today science has shown that that practice was a mistake. There are still many things that must change.
My personal experience
My experience, throughout all these years, it makes me perceive as more insecure (emotionally at least and also for the safety of my son) to go to any hospital to give birth at home, because the professional who will attend you there you do not know and You do not know, even if you are a professional, what kind of attention you offer or respect the woman's desire to give birth naturally, something that seems indispensable to me.
On the other hand, if I had no choice, I would study the center's attention protocol very well and would only entrust my life and that of my son if it seemed the most appropriate. I would analyze the protocol, the figures for caesarean sections and episiotomies, artificial artificial oxytocin, the reasons for a programming or a provocation, the organization of newborns, the rate of instrumental deliveries, the promotion of breastfeeding and the trajectory of the heads of service . I would present my birth plan and be very aware of the way they received it and how they explained the options. There are places where I could go quiet.
But I'm not worth any hospital or any doctor. My own experience in the birth of my son would not make me feel safe if I had to go to the same center, although I know, faithfully, that the attention, especially to the newborn, has greatly improved. They still have very high cesarean and episiotomy rates and I prefer not to take a risk.
I would give birth at my house
The great advances and improvements, despite the reluctance of some professionals, are enormous and, it is true, more and more women are reporting respected deliveries in hospitals and in which interventionist protocols have not been applied.
Maybe, in a few years, I change my perception, but today I am still very cautious and would opt for give birth at home If my circumstances were adequate to do so. My confidence in the professionals to whom I would ask you to accompany me is very great, they have shared with me their knowledge and their emotions, I know many people who have attended and I know that they would do what it takes to avoid risks, always also respecting my opinions . Yes, I prefer to give birth at home. I know it's safe.
More and more children are again born at home, but now with the peace of mind of receiving specialized care from their midwives, who are very clear that giving birth at home is a safe and respectable option.
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