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When a baby is born, health professionals make several evaluations to know that everything is fine and that it does not require special attention due to any problem during pregnancy or delivery. One of the tools they use to make a quick diagnosis of possible problems is the Apgar scale or test.

Umbilical cord prolapse is a complication that occurs before or during childbirth, understood as "prolapse" the fall or descent of an organ or organic structure. In this rare case (it occurs in less than 1% of births), the umbilical cord falls or prolapses through the cervix in front of the baby once labor has started.

Hormones are chemicals that travel through the body; They are messengers, they carry information for our body to function properly. These substances are involved...

When labor begins, the midwife or gynecologist uses vaginal examination to assess the condition of the cervix or cervix. Remember that it must reach a dilation of 10 centimeters for the baby to be born.

Birth photographs are the ones that convey the most emotions, as they manage to capture that incredible moment in which parents welcome their new baby. It is the memory of a moment that was filled with powerful feelings and sensations.

For some years now, various studies and scientific investigations have found that delaying the cutting of the umbilical cord has various benefits for the baby, both short and long term.

Although something more is learned every day about how the coronavirus behaves among children, with the existing data after a year living in a pandemic, it is known that vertical transmission during pregnancy is rare, as is newborn infection at the time of delivery or the days after, with skin-to-skin contact with the mother and breastfeeding.

In almost any aspect of life it is often said that "experience is a degree", and in the case of giving birth by cesarean section I think that would also apply. Obviously, you always have to take into account the circumstances surrounding this operation and that can be very different each time, but in general I would say that the second recovery from cesarean section is much more bearable and faster than the first.