Caesarean section

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

Thanks to the many studies and investigations that are carried out, there is currently a lot of data that is known about postpartum depression. For example, we know that it is the number one health complication during and after pregnancy, and therefore, every day we work harder to find the reasons that cause it.

In 15 years, caesarean sections have doubled in the world: they have gone from 12 percent in 2000 to 21 percent in 2015, when the WHO recommends that this practice not exceed 10 percent and a maximum of 15 percent of births. In the world, one in five babies are born by cesarean 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.

Triplet deliveries are rare and veiled or blanket births are much more so, when the baby is born inside the amniotic sac. The delivery that we bring you is a recent triplet cesarean section assisted by Dr. Rodrigo da Rosa Filho in São Paulo, Brazil.

A few days ago we informed you in detail about the main analgesic techniques (pharmacological or not) to better cope with the moment of delivery, and today we want to do the same with anesthesia.

The controversy surrounding the advisability of early delivery or not, instead of waiting for it to occur spontaneously, is recurrent.

A few weeks ago we told you what a birth plan is and the importance of preparing it calmly during pregnancy, since this will allow us to face the arrival of our baby in the most relaxed and confident way possible.

We talk about skin-to-skin contact with the baby from minute zero, that the father or the companion can cut the umbilical cord, that mother can breastfeed in the same operating room and that she even helps her baby to be born ... And many other innovations in the protocol for these interventions that further humanize childbirth and give women the leading role. That is the goal to be achieved, according to WHO recommendations.