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Most women have symptoms of pregnancy in the first weeks of gestation, so it is surprising to hear news like this, in which the woman does not find out that she is pregnant for months, and even in the most extreme cases, until the time to give birth. However, although it is very rare, these cases do exist: it is known as a cryptic pregnancy.

The arrival of a baby is always a great event, and to capture this important moment, many families hire a birth photographer to capture the first moments of the newborn's life, although we can also take some photographs ourselves to keep beautiful memories of that. day.

The external cephalic version (ECV) is a technique whose objective is to manually turn the baby that is poorly positioned in order to avoid a breech delivery or a cesarean section.

Being a virus with a relatively short time of existence, the scientific evidence on the Covid-19 coronavirus and its effects on pregnancy and the possible ways of contagion between mothers and children is limited. Although research to date suggests that the infection is not passed from mother to child, there is insufficient evidence to determine whether the virus can be transmitted during pregnancy.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that caesarean sections do not exceed 10 percent and a maximum of 15 percent of births. However, in many countries many more are done than recommended.

Every time we are getting to know a little more how the coronavirus behaves, which came to revolutionize our lives so much, and also childbirth. Given the possibility that the virus could affect the newborn, at first it was recommended to separate them at birth if the mother was infected, and they could only see them through video calls, although some hospitals did allow contact in their protocols, except in severe cases . This, without a doubt, is what caused the most anguish for women who were going to give birth.

Since 2004, during the month of May the World Respected Childbirth Week has taken place in several countries, an initiative created by the French Association for Respected Childbirth and promoted by UNICEF, whose objective is to raise the voice and generate awareness so that the birth be considered a natural process again, in which the rights of mother and baby are respected.

According to the Federation of Associations of Midwives of Spain, in almost four percent of full-term pregnancies the baby is breech. This news, which falls like a jug of cold water to the future mother, is usually communicated in the last ultrasound performed in pregnancy, and sometimes there is talk of a scheduled cesarean section if the baby is not turned in time.