The delivery room is packed with medical personnel dressed in party hats and garlands and everyone yells the countdown “six, five, four, three, two, one, zero!” , while they record it with their mobiles.
At 12 o’clock someone picks up a baby in her arms, born by natural birth and immediately posts the images on the Internet , presuming to have participated in the first birth in Guatemala in 2019 . And all between screams, applause and beeps.
While all this is happening, the mother is lying on the table without anyone paying the slightest attention to her. This unforgivable disrespect, which has even been classified as obstetric violence , has gone viral on social media. Naturally, the criticisms of this video follow one another from minute zero.
Total lack of respect, empathy and professionalism
The video recorded at the Roosevelt Hospital Maternity Hospital, in Guatemala, spread like wildfire via Twitter. The euphoria of the doctors, more typical of a New Year’s Eve party, is ashamed.
It is incredible that none of those present have thought about how embarrassed the mother has had to feel, in the midst of the birth of her child, without anyone worrying about her needs in that intimate and special moment, and also spreading it.
After the criticism received, the publication was withdrawn, but the recording has been kept in other accounts, such as this one in Argentina, which reproduce it “with the hope that the first birth of 2020 will be attended by more evolved and respectful professionals with women. and their babies. “
This video was removed from the links. We believe that it is necessary to have it in our Tweeter with the hope that the first birth of 2020 will be attended by more evolved and respectful professionals with women and their babies. Enough obstetric violence pic.twitter.com/w4035TjJw6
– Dandoaluz.org.ar (@Dandoaluz) January 2, 2019
Delivery must always be respectful of the woman
The woman requires a calm environment to give birth, like the baby, who deserves to be born in an environment that is as intimate as possible, quite the opposite of what happened in this maternity ward.
In addition, many users criticize the actions of doctors, who could have harmed the health of the mother and her child, when their job is to take care of them.
These are some of the user comments that have been read:
Yes, in a hospital in Guatemala. Horrifying everything, poor mother’s face, going through all this. Making a circus, forcing her to wait for the baby to be born at 0:00. All your rights and that of your baby have been violated.
– Mariana Nieva (@es_nieva) January 2, 2019
https://t.co/O8sKNWOdIG
Woman and baby hostages of a New Year’s Eve celebration in the delivery room. Low-income woman in a hospital environment. All accomplices of sexual abuse with registration to exercise it– Dandoaluz.org.ar (@Dandoaluz) January 1, 2019
This is the most horrible and inhumane thing I have ever seen of childbirth. I have given birth for 3 months and my conscience has not allowed me to finish watching the video. Disgust. May it never be repeated for any mother and baby in the world.
– Wendy R. 🍹 (@gakushaa) January 2, 2019
In fact, childbirth is one of the most important and momentous moments in a woman’s life and remains etched in her brain (and her baby’s) forever.
Hence the importance of respecting the rights of mothers during the birth of their baby . To support this humanization of childbirth, the World Health Organization (WHO) has published its recommendations for placing the mother at the center for a positive birth experience.
Without a doubt, the opposite of the shameful experience of this Guatemalan mother. Hopefully it will never happen again, anywhere in the world.
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