Many times, when we talk about natural childbirth, some people say that a natural birth in our environment is impossible for the mere fact of having certain comforts such as a birthing bathtub, a dilation ball, relaxing music and someone who ensures that everything goes well, because it would no longer be a natural birth, for the artificiality of adding elements that do not exist in nature.
In a way they are right, although I think that it is natural all that birth in which the mother, with more or less environmental support, gives birth without changing her posture, without being guided to push at a certain time , without touching the vaginal area (neither touching nor cutting) and where the mother gives birth as she sees fit.
In any case, it does not matter how the words natural birth are defined or what they refer to. The important thing is not if a woman in Spain may or may not have a natural birth. The important thing is that it be done the best for mother and baby at all times and, to date, It is best to do the minimum necessary so that everything goes as nature proposes and disposes.
Just in case you are left with the doubt of what a natural childbirth could really be, run these days online this video in which a woman gives birth alone in the middle of the jungle (Well, at a specific time an older woman, perhaps her mother, walks around to give her four encouragements), then preparing a place to have the baby between leaves and getting up quietly as who is going to buy the bread and leaves when she has paid .
I do not say that doing so is better, basically because everyone knows that giving birth in these conditions carries risks for the mother and the baby (in the middle of the jungle, without hygiene, without anyone giving the baby vitamin K, without anyone assessing if the placenta has come out complete, without ...), but surely it is a bit of thinking to see how they do it in other cultures that they are not lucky enough to have a national health system that can help them in case of emergency or qualified professionals for it (although I don't know how long we will have it, everything has to be said).
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