Choice of the place of birth

Nowadays a nascent mother has a number of possibilities where it can take its child to the world. There are various offers in most towns meanwhile. It is absolutely recommendable to inform itself first of all thoroughly. You can decide whether you would like to take their child to the world in a hospital, ambulatory in a clinic or at home. You are only restricted in your choice when a high-risk delivery has to be expected.

Clinic birth

Most children come onto the world in Germany in the hospital. In any case you should give birth in the clinic if deviations have yielded the check-ups of the normal pregnancy course or you feel safer in a hospital. It is the advantage of a clinic delivery that a hospital is established personnelly and medical-technologily optimally on emergencies. Can a cesarean section be carried out within shortest time or be premature deliveries provided by pediatricians optimally, for example.

The main emphases and the quality are the obstetrics lichen departments from hospital to hospital so differently that a comparison is worthwhile.

Questions to the maternity hospital

The clinical complexes organize information evenings for the nascent parents. Physicians and midwifes introduce themselves to it. If the labor room isn't occupied, it can be inspected. However, the first appearance shouldn't be the eruption to choose a certain clinic. Already make a note of the deciding factors important to you at home best and enquire specifically.

Possible questions are:
  • Does the hospital offer birth preparation courses at which I can get to know the midwifes of the house? How many midwifes are available? Do you already have adequate experience with births? Does a midwife stay with the nascent mother during the whole birth or is a change of shifts carried out rigidly every eight hours? May I bring my own midwife?
  • How many delivery rooms are available and how are they equipped (giving birth stools, balls, birth rope)?
  • I may design the delivery free: running around, bathing, choosing the birth position freely freely?
  • There are which routine measures around the birth, e.g. shave, enema, open the amniotic sac, sheath episiotomy?
  • Is a midwife, an anesthetist and a pediatrician in the house always (also at night)?
  • Which pain-relieving methods are offered?
  • Like much one hundred births are ending with a cesarean section, suction cup or forceps? How many sheath episiotomies are made?
  • Which shapes of rooming-in are offered?
  • How are the visiting times regulated? May brothers and sisters children also come for a visit?
  • Does the hospital have a pediatric clinic of its own, an early born or newborn childs intensive care unit? Into which children's hospital is the baby brought if necessary? Can the mother leave itself con-embarrassed there?
Ambulatory birth

Women who would not like to do without the technical securities of a hospital but nevertheless don't want to miss the security of your domiciliary environment have the possibility of an ambulatory delivery. This form of the delivery is offered in some hospitals and birthplaces. You take your child to the world in the clinic and can bring even your own midwife. The mother and the child are well during and after the birth and no medical problems appear, you can go home after a monitoring time from 2 to 24 hours so. It is advisable if the selection falls on a birth clinic which particularly offers ambulatory births.

At home the domiciliary nursing care organized should a midwife be found. The midwife checks the health status of mother and child at the aftercare. It checks the involution of the womb and the cure of the navel. It gives tips for the childbed exercises and helps at silent problems.

Home childbirth

Only still few children are born at home today. The parents choose this place the birth, so their principal desire to give birth as of course as possible and in the familiar environment. The nascent parents take on the full responsibility for the birth at a home childbirth. An experienced midwife is present which the birth supervises and conducts. It must if necessary transfer the nascent mother into a hospital.

Some are point at a home childbirth to take into account, though:
  • The nascent mother must be completely healthy. The check-ups should let expect a complicationless birth course.
  • An experienced midwife suits the parents aside during the birth and at least 10 days after this. Being able to at home preparation measures be discussed at visits of the midwife in front of the birth. There should exist a good mutual trust between the parents and the midwife. Many midwifes also offer information evenings and birth preparation courses.
  • The shipment to the next hospital should be able to be carried out as quickly as possible. The disadvantage of a home childbirth lies in it that during a birth unforeseeable difficulties which make an immediate operation necessary can always appear. The heart sounds of the child can suddenly get critical or appear in the afterbirth phase bleedings, for example. By the loss of time during the shipment to the nearest hospital lesions are then possible with mother and child.
Birthplace

The birthplace offers a middle course between a home childbirth and a clinic birth. It is a familial atmosphere in a birthplace. The birth rooms are fitted out very cosily. Brothers and sisters children can be often looked after and the day rooms are comfortable for giving birth to the nascent fathers and these. The birth is conducted by experienced midwifes. A physician is frequent in reputation readiness. The nascent mother is introduced to a surrounding hospital at complications


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