Today I want to point out a campaign that is circulating on the web:
Giving birth at home, an option that would have to assume Social Security
It is in Catalan and Spanish.
I think it is important to sign this petition, because I believe that every family should be able to choose, regardless of their financial capacity, what they believe is best for the birth of their baby with appropriate professionals, knowing that pregnancy and childbirth are a physiological and not a pathological process!
TI would also like to point out that there is a model to be able to request compensation for money for home birth, look on the website of ALPACC Associació de Levadores del Part a Casa de Catalunya.
I am a midwife
My first contact with a midwife was the day I decided to give birth, thanks to my mother, who gave me the opportunity to be born at home, as was once done. At that time, in Italy, everything was very medicalized, where my mother and a few other pioneers dared to give birth at home for the first time with the traditional midwife, the famous ones who went on horseback to attend births in the areas farthest from the city. When I was a few years old (6-7) after having seen a documentary on home births on TV in England, it was clear to me that I wanted to be one when I was “grown up.” I was present at my sister’s birth, always at home, when I was 16, and I cut the umbilical cord, thus taking my first step into the science of midwives. As a family tradition started by my mother, I gave birth to my two little girls at home with the midwife and my husband, for them we decided to do what is called the “Lotus Birth” or “Lotus Birth”: This involves not cutting the umbilical cord and leaving the placenta attached to the child until it detaches on its own, which occurs on average three to four days after birth. This practice is also defined as “integral birth”: the child is born; then, the placenta is “born”, and both remain joined.
I want to thank my grandparents who let me watch TV when I was little (HA-HA-HA); I want to thank my mother and my father; I want to thank my partner who supported me in this decision (in fact, he was the first to say we were going to have a home birth); I want to thank my friend and midwife; and finally, I want to thank my daughters!
<3 THANK YOU <3
