Labour

Labour is a unique experience that will be gladly remembered if no complications arise. Antenatal classes are an excellent way to prepare for the awaited moment.

Pregnancy takes more or less 40 weeks. It is said that a pregnant woman has come to term between weeks 37 and 40, it is also important that labour’s symptoms can be recognised around this time. The most telling ones are contractions and waters breaking.

In the event of breaking your waters, regardless of the type or quantity of the liquid observed, you must get to hospital as soon as possible. At this stage patients are checked and after confirming the situation, labour gets induced.

Riguardo alle contrazioni, ciò che segnala l’inizio del parto, è la frequenza e l’intensità di queste. Se è il primo parto, si richiede il ricovero ospedaliero quando si verificano tre contrazioni ogni dieci minuti e con una durata di trenta secondi.

With regard to the contractions, it is their frequency and the intensity that indicates the beginning of labour. If this is the first baby, after three contractions lasting thirty seconds each and in less than ten minutes it is recommended to stay in hospital. On the other hand, if this is the second baby, it is advisable to get to hospital as soon as contractions lasting thirty seconds each in approximately five minutes, happen.

If after 40 weeks no labour symptoms appear, doctors would like to keep the foetus monitored and most likely you will be admitted in hospital to proceed with an inducted labour between weeks 40 and 41. This will always be at the doctors criteria.

Labour at Instituto Bernabeu will always be assisted by the corresponding medical team: gynaecologist, midwife, paediatrician and anaesthetist. It will take, on a normal trouble free delivery, two days before given the all clear to go back home. If the delivering of a baby is via a caesarean, then it will usually take around five days before you can go home, counting on no complications arising after the birth

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