At the Sant'Anna hospital in the City of Health in Turin, the father or a loved one chosen by the future mother will be able to be with her for the cesarean section.
The decision to open the doors not only for natural births, but for cesarean sections, may be of a different nature, also depending on the clinical conditions of the future mother.
In fact, you will not be used in the case of an emergency intervention, but only for scheduled ones.
The choice may be from the presence of the father or loved one in the preparation room, to stay next to the mother until the last minute before the operation to the post-intervention phase in the recovery room with mother and newborn, but also to the presence in the operating room .
A case, the latter, which requires that the chosen person has full awareness of the situation and is able to respect the rules of the room for the protection of the health of the mother and unborn child.
The aim, as the hospital explains, is "a better welcome and humanisation of childbirth".
Once the Covid pandemic phase has been overcome, "the objective is to bring Sant'Anna back to the pre-pandemic phase, during which it was an open hospital, giving as much space as possible to the experience of the mother, the newborn and the entire family, combining their needs with the protection of the safety of care. With this objective, among others, two important improvement actions are being launched which provide for greater involvement of the loved one chosen by the woman in the cesarean section room (gentle cesarean birth ) and the introduction of clinical procedures (Eras protocol) capable of further improving the mother's recovery after surgery.
The first father to witness a caesarean section, in recent days, is 33 years old and the mother is 31. Their child, a 2.8 kilogram boy, was born after the woman was followed by the university's Obstetrics and Gynecology 2, directed by Alberto Revelli.
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