As VelSid told us a few days ago, it is good news that Galician hospitals incorporate dilation bathtubs in deliveries.
Soon they will begin to be used in two hospitals, the Regional Hospital of O Salnés de Pontevedra and the Virxe de Xunqueira de Cee de La Coruña, and it is expected that before the end of the year it will reach all Galician hospitals.
The novelty has been very well received by both future moms and doctors, because it really is a good method to facilitate childbirth, I would certainly choose it.
It does not mean that the birth itself is going to take place in the water, let's say that it is not submerged births, but of baths with warm water that help and shorten the process of dilatation prior to delivery.
There are midwives who wisely recommend parturients to get into the house bathtub with warm water when labor contractions begin. Thus the first phase of the dilation passes and the mother comes to give birth with a good part of the path traveled. You can also place a birth pool at home to be more comfortable than inside the bathtub.
When getting into the bathtub with warm water, the perineal muscles relax and soften making the pains less intense and then facilitating expulsion. This relaxation decreases the production of adrenaline, a hormone responsible for hardening the cervix.
In addition, the woman is allowed to be accompanied by her family and another important issue is the position, which when sitting in an upright position, instead of lying flat, the pressure of the baby along with the action of water favors the occurrence of a shorter and more natural birth.
Galician hospitals, and hopefully later spread to the rest of the country, have that idea in mind, that the dilation room has a bathtub for labor before the expulsion itself would be out of the water.
It is an excellent option to mitigate labor pains and achieve a more pleasant birth delivery, so much that it is possible that many women dare to give birth without epidural.
