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Volume 3
Midwifery and Gynaecology 2019
December 04-05, 2019
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Midwifery nursing and Gynaecology
December 04-05, 2019 | Dubai, UAE
Annual Congress on
J Nurs Res Pract, Volume 3 |
ISSN: 2632-251X
Journal of Nursing Research and Practice
Home birth/water birth: Ten years’ experience in Panama republic: Main achievements and challenges
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ince 10 years and after 20 years working like Ob/Gyn in public and private hospitals and maternity
units in Panama, we began attending home births and water births with women who demanded us
these kinds of childbirth. That issue represented for us the necessity to do a complete reengineering
mental process, unlearn a lot of different bad learnt procedures and habits and retake the women
world, the birthing physiology, the human being mammal nature; to practice a pregnant, delivery and
attachment healthy and minimal intervention maternity care. With this new view finally to understand
that pregnancy and childbirth represent a lovely, happy and beautiful family experience. We had
received a huge women and social support as well us a strong support through different social networks.
It has been a strong rejection and disapproval from our Ob/ Gyn, paediatrician fellows, private hospitals
and different national medical associations. However we achieve a tremendous advance: the strong
necessity to change and adopt new ways in maternity care during pregnancy and delivery are issues in
the everyday women and family demand in social networks activities. Now our colleagues are obligated
to answer and explain the reason about the different kinds of dangerous and unnecessary medical
interventions. We learnt a lot and learn more and more in our daily professional work: have attend more
than 350 home and water births. In our experience in home births we included 42 VBACs, 2 twins and 3
breaches. The majority have been water births and our cesarean section rate is 5%. We watch excellent
perinatal outcomes and a high mother satisfaction level rate.
Biography
Aybar Rodrigo, Ob/Gyn from Panamá, has a huge expertise attending more than 10000 births in the Social Security Hospital, home and
water birth in his country and with his wife, also Ob/Gyn are pioneers in this field. He is known in his passion and dedication in improving
perinatal and delivery care in his country. He participates teaching residents Ob/Gyn and teaching a new approach in Perinatal and Delivery
care centered in a deep respect of women and child rights.
aybar_anhel@yahoo.com.arRodrigo Aybar
Centro Medico Nacional, Panama