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During the nine months of pregnancy, the baby breathes through the mother. The baby's lungs are the last organ to start working, and it will be after birth. Your first breath (which may or may not be accompanied by crying) sounds like a gasp indicating that air has entered your lungs for the first time.

Our little ones are curious by nature, and there comes an age when they have hundreds of questions to ask us. Why is the sky blue? because it rains? How do airplanes fly? or why is the moon not seen during the day ?, are some of the most popular, among which is sometimes also the -sometimes- dreaded: how was I born?

In the middle of the second wave of Covid receiving good news that has nothing to do with the pandemic, it is always well received. And more if they have to do with a healthy birth in a city very affected by the virus, such as Seville. This is one of them.

I recognize that during my births I did not want many people around me and the presence of my husband and father of my children was enough for me. For me it was an intimate moment, which had to stay between us.

When we speak of a respected or humanized birth, we refer to giving each mother and baby a birth process in which the decisions, well-being and health of both are privileged as protagonists, within a natural and respectful environment. And this is precisely what we see in the interactive documentary, 'Giving birth in the 21st century', produced by Barret Cooperativa in collaboration with À Punt Mèdia and RTVE's Audiovisual Innovation Laboratory.

Perinatal loss is one that occurs from week 22 of gestation to the first seven days of life. According to WHO figures, in 2019 47% of all deaths of children under 5 years old occurred during the neonatal period: approximately one third on the day of birth and about three quarters in the first week of life. And yet it is a topic that is rarely discussed.

Pregnant with her third child, Andrea began to feel labor pains and went to the emergency room convinced that her baby was on the way. But at the hospital they not only sent her back home, but the woman affirms that the gynecologist who treated her came to reproach her that it seemed unbelievable that she did not know how to identify labor contractions.

Various studies over the years have analyzed the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the effects and possible consequences that may occur depending on the type of childbirth that is had, both in the mother and baby, as well as in the short and long term.