If anything we can assure today is that societies are moving faster than their institutions, and the proof of this is that there are more and more complaints, requests and pressure from the population in the face of institutions such as educational and health. As a result of these popular pressures, hospital protocols have been able to change, professionals have been recycling (or have seen the need to do so) and have modernized a bit.
But there are still many things to improve, and one of them is the time a baby passes without his mother having been born by birth by caesarean section. In some hospitals the father enters the caesarean section, the child is placed in the mother's chest and there remains the time it takes, as if it were a normal delivery. In others the father has to be left out, the baby goes to the nest, or with the father, and the mother is left alone for two hours in resuscitation, when this is not ideal.
De Mare a Mare requests it at the Virgen de los Lirios de Alcoy Hospital
There are popular struggles and there are local struggles. There are struggles at the state level and struggles at the particular level, and the more you change, the closer you are to us, the easier it will be for the change to be global in the end. The breastfeeding support group De Mare a Mare is clear about it and that is why it has started collecting signatures to ask the hospital in your area to change the protocols and that babies born by caesarean section remain with their mothers at birth.
How many hours do they spend without their mothers now?
I don't know, answer me. In the hospital where my children were born babies pass two hours without his mother. The mother is transferred to the resuscitation plant, the baby stays on the floor, with the dad or in the nest (although it is no longer the typical nest full of cribs) and at two hours, if the mother is well, she is taken to the neonatal plant to finally be with your baby. In other hospitals that time may be less, or much longer. A couple of years ago, nurses from a hospital in southern Spain were boasting in a few days of obstetrics having managed to reduce the separation from the usual 16-18 hours to only 9-10 hours. 9-10 hours without your son? Terrible.
And why don't they put them together?
Why are those born vaginally skin to skin with the mother and those born by caesarean section are separated from their mothers? Because the mother has just had surgery. The abdomen has been opened to the uterus and sewn again. This with the corresponding anesthesia, of course. After an operation a person he has to recover from that anesthesia and that's why he goes to the resuscitation zone, in case there is any immediate complication. In case everything goes well, he moves to his room.
It is carried out with women who give birth by caesarean section the same protocol as with other operations, but it is not the same. in the other operations they take out or fix something that is not going well. Here you take a baby and there are An emotional bond that breaks. And it shouldn't break.
Most women do not suffer urgent complications, so most women could be resuscitated with their baby and their partner next door. The baby on his chest, which does not bother at all, the couple next door, which does not bother at all, and if there is any complication they move away and act.
This is not usually done because in resuscitation there is no one who can take care of the baby if necessary, so one option is to have it. Another option is not to leave the mother in resuscitation, but to raise her to the floor in a room where in case of emergency action can be taken, for which it will be necessary for the staff to be prepared.
Seen this way it seems difficult to achieve, since, as I say, we must make modifications and perhaps have at least one more person to be for the baby in resuscitation, or to be with the mother if she is on the floor (I see more feasible what first than the second, since the resuscitation rooms are much more open and from a central point you can see all the beds).
But hey, Babies born by caesarean section are there every day, and the benefits of not separating mother and child are countless. From an emotional bond that does not break, because after leaving the baby does not separate from his mother, to better breastfeeding rates, because a baby is born very active to make the first take, meet his mother, be calm with and after 2-3 hours he falls asleep for a few hours, etc.
Come on, there are so many benefits that the logical thing would be that, or in resuscitation, there were personnel to care for the babies and that mothers and babies could be together, or even that in the neonatal plant they created a resuscitation subunit only for mothers who give birth by caesarean section, or with complications, so that they are with their babies without separating from them.
Sounds utopian, right? Well, it should be like that.
