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The choice of whether to give birth in a health facility, whether public or private, or to give birth at home is a decision for the parents.
It is good for future parents to know that there are "Baby Friendly Hospitals".
The UNICEF and WHO’s Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative aims to ensure that hospitals apply proven procedures and organisational models that support, promote and protect breastfeeding.
To obtain and maintain "Baby Friendly Hospital" recognition, hospitals must apply the 10
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During pregnancy, dear mothers-to-be, take time for yourself and your baby and try to attend a preparatory course: a series of meetings on a regular basis that can help you understand what’s happening to you and your baby and how to be supported.
It will be a meaningful opportunity for you to meet other mothers-to-be, who are perhaps experiencing such a special and intense moment like you. Also this course could give you a chance to discuss all the questions and doubts that may arise
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Childbirth, in most cases, takes place at the physiological end of pregnancy (around 40 weeks) in several ways, including:
- vaginal delivery
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- spontaneous and natural;
- accompanied by pharmacological intervention (induction with oxytocin or administration of an epidural);
- following a previous caesarean section (VBAC=vaginal birth after caeserian);
- in water;
- at home;
- caesarean section
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- planned (by the doctor or at the patient's request);
- emergency.
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