Birth

The truth is that there is not only one way to fall in love, but the crush is one of the most widespread, which also often occurs at the time of delivery between the mother and the baby. The first time you see your baby's face and they put it on you at birth there is an explosion of hormones that make it easier for the newborn and the mother to fall in love.

Recently I shared with you one of the most beautiful moments of my life, the experience of my twin birth. A humanized and respected caesarean section. The goal I had with that article was that there was finally a positive experience on the net for all pregnant women looking for a glimmer of hope around caesarean sections.

Even when someone asks me about my births I remember them with a smile. I remember what scared me most in the world. Panic to the pain, to the complications, to the unknown, to that new life as a mother who was beginning and not knowing if she could cope. When I had my first child I got rid of caesarean section because of Kristeller's maneuver, painful but without consequences.

The mere fact of being born a girl in India is a challenge to survive, and more when born with 400 grams of weight and just 28 weeks of gestation. In a country where selective abortion of female fetuses and female infanticide is the order of the day, a premature baby who was given a 0.5 chance of survival has managed to get ahead against all odds.

The debate about the place where women should give birth is hot lately, with opinions in favor of home birth and opinions against, debate that goes on every time an event seems to prove right to one or the other. From Babies and more we always advocate to inform, offer data, and thus promote that each woman choose the option she considers best; and there seems to be no absolute truth in these matters: if you want security, the hospital seems to be the best option, while if you want a respected delivery, the best option seems to be home delivery (although these are generalizations that do not have what to always do).

The dance has proven to be a good method to induce labor naturally, thanks to the mother's movements help the baby to be placed and with its own weight, contribute to soften the cervix to cause birth. Emily Skye, is a well-known internet fitness mom and she knows it very well, that's why she recorded a fun video in which she goes out in a bikini dancing "Push It" (a very appropriate song for the moment) pregnant for 40 weeks.

We know more and more about the importance of birth for the rest of our lives. Understanding more deeply what happens to the mother and the baby at that time is key to better understand that childbirth is something sacred that we must recover. Ibone Olza, a child psychiatrist, mother and birth rights activist, tells us about all this in his latest book 'Parir, the power of childbirth', with a prologue by Icíar Bollaín.

Water birth is an alternative to normal birth that has many benefits for women and for the newborn, as we have told you on other occasions, and that is why many women choose it to give birth to their babies. However, the use of this method is not without controversy, and it has been described cases of babies with significant problems to be born in this way.

After nine months gestating your baby, the time for delivery has finally arrived! A moment that many women define as one of the most beautiful of their lives, but unfortunately for others it can also be a traumatic episode. The childcare brand Suavinex has conducted an online survey among more than 14.

I have always been fascinated by birth photographs. I find images so powerful and impressive, that they capture that moment full of emotions, a moment so raw, so real, so natural. The beginning of a new life. However, for some people the images of a birth are annoying or unpleasant and when they are published on social networks, they are reported and many of them end up being deleted.

Perinatal loss is one that occurs in the last phase of pregnancy or in the first seven days after the baby is born. It is not difficult to imagine the hard blow that this has to suppose for some parents, nevertheless, the society insists on hiding this terrible pain. Silence the loss of that baby or try to comfort some shattered parents with inappropriate phrases, is something more common than we think.

Spain is the country that carries out the most organ transplants and donations, in what is a clear example of the solidarity of many of its citizens. That is why, in large part, there are many parents who donate the cord blood of their babies, knowing that the stem cells it contains will be used for research or to transplant people with diseases as serious as leukemia or lymphomas

It's a crazy story that took place last Halloween when Brittany Selph, a mother from Tennessee who went into labor a few days earlier than expected (expected on November 5). Upon arrival at the hospital, she was prepared for childbirth and called the gynecologist who would attend the birth of her baby.

Brazilian obstetrician Fernando Guedes da Cunha is an unusual doctor. And we love it! He uses dance to help women relax in labor and help their babies be born, but not only that, but he invents the choreographies and dances with his patients. A few days ago he published a video in which we see him with a pregnant woman in full labor, Camila Rocha, dancing "Paradinha" by Anita.

For some people, the way our children are born is a reference of the type of mothers we will be. Sounds a bit absurd, right? Because it is. We cannot judge a mother based simply on whether her children were born by natural birth or caesarean section. However, it continues to be the subject of endless discussions and ill-intentioned comments.

More than a year ago I wrote a post in which I talked about how inappropriate or annoying it can be for some mothers to give birth to their baby, that there is a separation between them, and that it is another person, maybe a grandmother, who takes him in the arms for the first time. Although many women claimed that it had happened to them and had hurt them, and others agreed that if it happened to them it would also bother them, there were some who did not see it as relevant or important and did not see the problem.

It is always nice to see the birth of a new life, but I assure you that this video is beautiful to see for the peace it transmits. Witnessing that unique and special moment in which the baby appears in the world for the first time is really a privilege. Therefore, today we want to share with you this incredible video of a home birth in the water, in which the baby was born inside the intact amniotic bag, what is known as veiled delivery, something that happens very rarely, it is believed than in one in 80.

The birth of this mother is going around the world for two very curious events: she had a premature delivery in the car, on the way to the hospital, and her baby was born in what is known as a "veiled delivery", which is when she is born with the bag intact. Just 29 weeks of gestation According to Raelin Scurry in his Instagram account, on August 5 he realized, around 10 in the morning, that he was having contractions.

Last Wednesday, a unit of the Summa had to go to a home in Madrid to attend a delivery that had been complicated and in which the newborn was in cardiorespiratory arrest and did not respond to stimuli. The mother, who had opted for a natural birth at home, had the help of two midwives who had to immediately call emergency services to save the baby's life.

What determines the time we are born? Is it pure chance? Is there an hour at which more births occur? Are more babies born in the morning, in the afternoon or at night? To find answers to these questions, Zan Armstrong, an engineer and data analyst, has done a thorough analysis of birth patterns in the United States.