Having a baby is a process in which a woman, her baby and the people who care for the woman actively participate so that everything goes well. And when the delivery is by cesarean section, too.
Her name is Mili América Antelo, she is 40 years old and has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital de Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona with severe pneumonia due to Covid-19.
There is a viral video of a veiled childbirth that is circulating these days on the networks and WhatsApp groups that is really impressive and rare, but contrary to what is said, it has nothing to do with Covid-19.
The state of pandemic by Covid-19 declared by the WHO, together with the state of alarm decreed by the government of Spain, means that we are living an exceptional situation. This experience can create a feeling of uncertainty, worry, and sometimes fear. And all these feelings increase in pregnant women and for that reason, doctors Llanos Gómez and Sara Cholvi, Gynecologists of the Obstetrics and Gynecology service of the Hospital de Manises explain to us how they are caring for pregnant women in their hospital. In turn, they want to convey to you that you are not alone, and that they are going to accompany you on this beautiful path of bringing a new life to the world.
These are atypical times for everyone, and especially for the more than 40 thousand women who have given birth in times of coronavirus in our country. Due to the pandemic, the arrival of their babies is being very different from what they had imagined, but they are already with their offspring in their arms or will be very soon. Everything will be fine.
Pregnant women may not be accompanied during labor and delivery in the Valencian Community. This is established by the new 'Communication Protocol for pregnant women at the time of delivery', dated April 4.
If, in itself, we are all concerned about the situation we are experiencing, uncertainty increases in the case of pregnant women who are going to give birth in the next few days or weeks. There is no evidence about the transmission of the virus from the mother to the baby during pregnancy, and that is good news, but what are births like during the COVID crisis?
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