Birth

On the occasion of the Olympic Games that are being held in Tokyo, the neonatology nurses at St. Luke's Health System Hospital in Missouri, in Kansas City, United States, wanted to honor the babies born on this date by knitting Olympic costumes with which newborns look adorable.

A little over a month ago we advanced: only 105,141 babies were born in the first four months of this year in our country, 6% less than in the same period last year. They were the latest data provided by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), which confirms the downward trend for five years and that has accelerated due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Hodge planes are levels used to imaginatively divide the pelvis from the upper to the lower straits in order to locate the position of the fetal presentation during birth, as it passes through the birth canal.

Although we often focus on the mother, it is clear that for the baby, birth involves the discovery of a new world of sensations.

The first cry of the newborn is the form of expression used to debut in life, although not all babies cry at the time of delivery.

The gestation of the human being is a complex process with a certain duration that should not be forced. The natural thing, and for that reason the most convenient thing, is that the childbirth is triggered spontaneously, when the physiological mechanisms that cause the labor to begin begin by themselves.

Today, June 7, the World Birth Rights Day is celebrated, rights that as mothers and fathers who want the best for their children we must defend and promote, because it is necessary that there be more humanized births.

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