A few days ago I realized another sample of how the option of a natural birth, more humanized, fortunately it is gradually taking positions in our society.
In this case it was the book Normal Birth Initiative. Luckily, there are more and more hospitals that offer this possibility.
Now it has been the Ministry of Health of the Principality of Asturias that has announced the implantation of natural childbirth in Asturian hospitals with the clear objective that women who resort to non-medicalized delivery "feel at home".
According to health officials, the intention is that the hospital system offers the advantages that characterize home births, such as comfortable space where pregnant women can prepare for childbirth as they wish, walk or sit ...
Always looking for a more intimate place where they have the company they want, where lighting is taken into account, in which the mother's immediate contact with the baby is practiced, the cord cut is delayed ...
And in which more or less extended medical routines such as episiotomy are not practiced unless necessary. That is to say, let nature take its course, with the added value that the woman can be monitored by a medical team before the appearance of any complication.
It also wants to emphasize all Asturian motherhoods in the promotion of breastfeeding. It is always good news that childbirth is treated as what it is, a natural physiological process and that their medicalization be reduced. Fortunately, more and more hospitals are choosing this way to bring babies to the world, and hopefully they will continue to add up.
