The health plan to establish a less "medicalized" delivery care It is spreading throughout the national territory. At good Time.
In Cantabria, the Ministry of Health has implemented the plan in its public hospitals and in the private clinic Mompía with the intention of recovering the physiology of childbirth, reducing medical interventions, reducing the number of caesarean sections, and ultimately, humanizing births
Although the percentage of this practice has been reduced last year, there is still much to at least approach the 10% recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). The Valdecilla Hospital stands at 20% while that of Laredo is around 25%, but they believe that with the new strategy it will drop to 15% in the two hospitals that concentrate 87% of deliveries in the region.
He natural birth care project It is part of the Plan for Attention to Women 2008-2011, an initiative that the Government will present in the next quarter that includes an improvement in childbirth care aimed at respecting the emotional needs of women and babies.
As I have been saying a few months ago, I think that the most human attention to childbirth is becoming less and less a fantasy to become a reality. The process is slow, but little by little we see how hospitals from different communities are joining this new wave.
Of course it is a joy to think that when giving birth the woman will be treated with respect, giving her the possibility of choosing how and in what position she wants to give birth, whether or not she wants anesthesia, and knowing that she will not have a C-section or an episiotomy "by decree."
However, I am still concerned about the situation of some private centers that may reach 40% of C-sections in the deliveries they attend.
Anyway, I am convinced that the new current is infecting not only the centers but the minds of future moms. More and more people want to have an active voice in their deliveries.
