Today, scientific evidence indicates that the childbirth is a natural physiological process and that unnecessary medical care can cause many more problems than we know. Childbirth is a normal act, the culmination of our sexual reproductive experience, and for this the body of the mother and child are prepared. Any routine intervention without real need, including loss of intimacy, is harmful.
The World Health Organization Many years ago I determined that certain medical practices were harmful or unnecessary. However, they have continued to be performed routinely in Spanish hospitals. The woman who does not present complications must have her birth in privacy, without interruptions and in a collected and respectful environment. Must be able to move, receive massages, be accompanied at all times by the person chosen by her and not be the object of attention by trainees if she does not want to. You must be able to feed and drink, walk, give birth in the position you decide and, above all, not be subject to protocol actions that are not proven to be beneficial for your specific case. The application of synthetic protocol oxytocin to accelerate normal delivery, rupture of membranes, fetal cardiogram, application of enemas and shaving, denial of food and drink to the parturient, continuous monitoring, serum, inability to move during labor and lying position for the expulsive are all issues that have long since they had to leave in our hospitals for healthy women in a delivery without complications.
These practices, which morbidity and mortality rates do not improveThey are clearly related to more painful deliveries that make epidural anesthesia, which is not harmless, generalized as the only palliative treatment for pain.
Everything I have explained has caused Spanish women to suffer rates of caesarean sections, instrumental deliveries and episotomies that triple the rates recommended by WHO, with the consequent suffering and complications for maternal and fetal health.
Fortunately in October 2007 The Ministry of Health echoed a movement that, born from user associations and professionals, demanded that the birth care model be changed. The New Normal Delivery Care Strategy It is the first step to get women and babies to live childbirth and birth without violence.
