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In Babies and More we like to share stories that invite us to be more empathetic and understanding with other parents, and those publications that seek to put an end to those judgments that we sometimes make without realizing it, inspire us to stop judging or draw conclusions just by seeing a small fragment of the lives of other mothers.

Maternal pushing, during the second stage of delivery, is essential for the baby to be able to descend through the maternal pelvis and go outside. They are the force that the mother uses to push the baby through the birth canal.

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.

There are babies who are in a great hurry to get into the world and they do it before their mother has time to get to the hospital. This has been the case Alexis Swinney, a 25-year-old woman from Texas, who gave birth to her fifth child in the car seat while her husband was driving to the hospital.

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.

One of the possible complications of childbirth that generates the most fear is perineal trauma, the name given to the tear or episiotomy produced at the moment of delivery. Although the new protocols are trying to re-educate professionals to intervene less and let labor flow smoothly, not everything is in the hands of doctors and women can also do things to avoid these types of situations.

During pregnancy there are many doubts that assail us about the type of delivery we want. Some women are clear that they want to give birth without anesthesia, and resort to other analgesic techniques for pain relief. Others, on the other hand, prefer the epidural when the time comes.