60% of women who give birth in the new Dénia Hospital choose natural childbirth. The Gynecology and Obstetrics Area thus demonstrates a clear inclination to allow "non-medicalized delivery, as long as the pregnancy and the pre-delivery conditions are normal", stand out in a statement issued from the center.
Talking about natural childbirth involves avoiding practices such as episiotomy or the use of synthetic oxytocin to accelerate dilation. Neither do they shave the parturients or apply enemas unless they request it.
The amniorrexis, name that receives the maneuver of artificial rupture of the amniotic bag, is only performed in specific cases, if it is really necessary, as in cases in which the dilation is excessively slow. It is also tried that the expulsion of the placenta is done in a natural way and the umbilical cord is not cut until it stops beating, allowing the baby to receive an extra blood volume that will provide more iron stores.
Once the cord is cut, the "early onset" of breastfeeding begins, a system in which the Dénia Hospital has been a "pioneer" in the Valencian Community, they said.
In its protocols it is also established that from the moment of delivery, both in natural births and in cesarean sections, the baby will be in contact "skin to skin" with his mother.
With respect to epidural anesthesia, each parturient can decide whether to use it or not.
The hospital has eight rooms with expansion beds, all equipped with a toilet, as well as two paritorios and an operating room.
The rooms have a telemetry system that consists of controlling uterine dynamics without wires, using a wireless system to measure contractions and fetal heart rate leaving the future mom freedom of movement.
The beds become obstetrician foals when the time of delivery arrives, so that the parturient can give birth in the room accompanied by a family member or by the person she chooses.
Without a doubt, Dénia shows that she is doing things very well and that she is thinking, above all, about the well-being of moms and their babies.
Being able to give birth in the same room where you dilate, being able to be in skin-to-skin contact with your baby, even having given birth by caesarean section and making the late-cut cord, along with the rest of the actions described, is a luxury today.
It is clear that the way to go through hospitals is this and luckily it is already being done in more and more centers.
For now, if I were a woman and had to give birth, I would love to do it in Dénia.
