Out of fear of the suffering of childbirth, more than half of expectant mothers decide to give birth under epidural. Today, some hospitals offer an alternative, allowing women to give birth naturally. An example is the limitation of the pain of contractions thanks in particular to a relaxation technique in water. Presentation of the polyclinic of Blois to discover this method of delivery.
Report to the maternity of the Lilas. the conception of the birth is different. A future mother: "I didn’t want it to be the doctors who take charge of everything for me"and a doctor "we try to consider people as people who have a say, and not as people who have to undergo the medicine without being able to discuss it"
Testimony, very hard, of a 37-year-old woman, hidden face, having undergone a raw curettage, without anesthesia, in a clinic of the city following a miscarriage.
Investigation report on gynecological trauma. Forced caesarean sections, traumatic examinations, lack of dialogue. The word of women is free. Many testimonies have been gathered in a book: "Le livre noir de la gynécologie" by Mélanie DECHALOTTE: "Often the caregivers do not realize that they practice mistreatment". Some maternities try to take into account the needs of patients, but the number of caregivers is closely linked to these prerogatives.
The method of painless delivery was developed in 1952 by Dr Lamaze, a French doctor who had been inspired by a Russian method, long before the epidural. This method consists of a set of techniques: from breathing to psychological conditioning, which minimize pain. Return to this method, with edifying testimonies on the relationship to pain according to different times.
Debate between Marie José JAUBERT, author of the "Bateleurs du mal joli", in which she denounces the "hoax of the psycho prophylactic delivery, and deplores the war of the medical sects which is played at the expense of women", and Pierre SIMON, gynecologist. The latter asks her about the difficult conditions of childbirth. He replies that this is a detail.
For 10 years, epidural anesthesia has been practiced which allows women to give birth without pain. There was, however, reluctance. Interview of a midwife who feared a different relationship with the patients: "With the epidural, I was afraid of losing this relationship with the woman... now we are talking about the child..." Interview of a mother who has just given birth to her 5th child, for the first time under anesthesia: "We feel nothing, we participate in everything...".
A mother testifies to her difficult childbirth after the announcement of the death of a woman at the Pont de Chaume clinic in Montauban. She anonymously delivers her harrowing experience at the same institution when she gave birth to her daughter. She denounces the relentlessness of the doctor who caused a hemorrhage.
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