Birth

On January 16, 2013, a pregnant woman went to the Virgen de la Victoria University Hospital in Malaga with symptoms of childbirth. After admission, she was transferred to the delivery room where she was attended by the gynecologist and a midwife. During the birth, the newborn fell to the ground from a great height suffering brain trauma and bruising.

More and more women are preparing humanized and natural alternatives when preparing their birth plan, previously informing their hospital about birth assistance protocols. And luckily, more and more hospitals are beginning to be aware of this need, incorporating specialized units in respected delivery.

It happened in Bangladesh. Arifa Sultana, 20, gave birth to her first child of natural birth. He went home and after 26 days he returned to the hospital for severe pain in his abdomen, not knowing what was happening to him. And their dizygotic twins (twins) were born, of whom he did not even know their existence. It was then that doctors discovered that Arifa has two wombs, a congenital anomaly called didelphys or didelfo, that allows babies to grow in two different wombs.

Megan Ann Mattiuzzo, 29, is a professional wedding photographer who just found out she was pregnant, knew she wanted to capture that special moment with her camera herself. The result is spectacular images taken from an angle that we do not usually see in most birth photos: from the eyes of his mother behind the lens.

With the use of social networks, today it is more common to share with our family and friends some fragments of our daily lives and the special moments we live. Motherhood and life with children are one of the things that fathers and mothers share most through these means, and actresses and celebrities are no exception.

If you are in the last trimester of pregnancy and childbirth is approaching, you will be interested to know how your baby's birth will develop and what will happen at each moment to arrive as prepared as possible. Its usually called delivery at the time the baby is born, but the truth is that the birth begins much earlier.

This is a story of seeing to believe. Did you know that the chances of having sextuplets are estimated at one in 4.7 billion? That is what The Woman's Hospital of Texas (United States) assures, on its Facebook page, when it is proud to have attended a delivery of six babies, born in nine minutes.

Most mothers (and fathers, of course) dream about what our baby will be like and imagine what she experiences inside mom's gut. Now, thanks to the images that the Brazilian photographer Janaina Oliveira took from the birth of three babies, parents from all over the world can get a more accurate idea of ​​what her son's world is like in the womb, between the image of the last ultrasound and the moment of his birth.

I had heard of women who claimed to have had an orgasm during childbirth, but for me it was another false myth. I have always related pleasure with sex and childbirth with pain, or rather with the possibility of not feeling it. And reality and science have shown me that I was very wrong. Having an orgasm is possible during a respected birth, since the woman's sexual organs and pleasure hormones are very involved at birth.

Childbirth is a long-awaited moment during pregnancy, especially in the final stretch, but also, it is one of the most doubts and fears women can feel. Regularly these fears appear in new mothers, but also, they are frequent in those who expect twins or twins for the first time.

Birth photographs summarize in an instant the beauty of one of the most powerful experiences for parents, the birth of a child. They perfectly convey the intensity of the moment, the feelings of parents and family members, as well as the unforgettable moment of seeing his face for the first time and the first moments with the newborn.

Spanish Public Health is an international benchmark. Citizens go to the hospital to perform medical procedures at no cost, and the same happens when the mothers are going to give birth. This does not mean that it is free, we pay it through taxes, but it is a public service.

Birth photographers are becoming more frequent, perhaps because families realize "how valuable it is to preserve memories of the best days of their lives." This is what ensures Birth Becomes Her, an international community of birth photographers, who call an international competition to choose the best images of the year of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.

I have seen an impressive video on networks that I cannot stop sharing with you. Although we have seen other types of births known as veiled or "crushed" births on other occasions, this spectacular way of reaching the world is surprising. This is the video of a cesarean birth in which the baby leaves inside the intact amniotic bag.

I'm still surprised by the wonderful things you can find on the Internet. And, Daniela Justus, and more specifically her photographs, were one of those great discoveries. I remember with great affection and it still excites me, the first photo with my daughter in the parish, just when she was born, still attached to me by the umbilical cord.

On Monday afternoon some parents decided that their second child would be born at home, and without medical assistance. When the couple requested help from the emergency service, it was already late: the baby came from the buttocks and could not survive. This tragedy triggers again the alarms about the security of home births.

In some deliveries, the baby is placed in the maternal pelvis looking up instead of down, which makes it difficult to leave and increases the risk of caesarean section and instrumented deliveries. A midwife at Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Vanessa Bueno, has designed an ergonomic cushion that facilitates the rotation of the baby's head during childbirth and also helps to rest in the third trimester of pregnancy.

Caesarean sections in the world have doubled in 15 years: they have gone from 12 percent in 2000 to 21 percent in 2015, when WHO recommends that this practice does not exceed 10 percent and at most 15 percent of Births In the world, one in five babies are born by caesarean section, according to a report with data from 169 countries published in The Lancet magazine on the occasion of the XXII World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Maternal bids, during the phase of the expulsion in childbirth, are essential for the baby to descend through the maternal pelvis and go outside. They are the force that the mother makes to push the baby through the birth canal. It is a reflex act that usually coincides with the dilation of the cervix of 10 centimeters and the moment when the baby's head fits into the maternal pelvis.

Triplet deliveries are rare and much more so are veiled or unmanned births, when the baby is born inside the amniotic bag. The birth we bring you is a recent cesarean section of triplets assisted by Dr. Rodrigo da Rosa Filho in San Pablo, Brazil. It is a tricigotic pregnancy, in which each of the three babies has its own bag, cord and placenta.