Tours, gifts and a beauty salon: amazing features of maternity hospitals around the world
'18.12.2021'
Source: Adme
A woman's satisfaction with the birthing experience can affect her health and attitude towards her newborn. The main factors of comfort here are support from doctors and relatives and a positive attitude. Different cultures go for curious tricks to make this process easier for expectant mothers. AdMe.ru I learned a lot about how everything works in maternity hospitals in some countries, and these original facts are really surprising.
Israel
In Israel, there are special excursions to maternity hospitals - siyurs. At the stage of choosing a hospital, the expectant mother can sign up for such a visit to the clinic, where she will be shown the maternity ward, wards, the postpartum ward, and will also be told about the specification of the hospital - whether natural childbirth or cesarean section is a priority.
In addition to excursions, hospitals arrange special meetings for pregnant women - kenes. These are conferences where they give gifts, show stand-up comedians' performances and educational videos.
“I left with a huge bag, which contained diapers, formula for feeding the baby, various creams (for the child and myself), diapers, bags, toys,” Tanya Levinson shared.
Childbirth is always taken by the team on duty, you cannot choose an obstetrician in advance. During the birth of a child, a change may occur, and then there is a chance to start labor with one doctor, and finish with another.
“It used to be that you would tell everything about yourself between contractions, either by acquiring a friend in a couple of hours, or by living your own Stockholm syndrome, and a shift change, and welcome, and hello again,” said Yulia Lyakhovetskaya.
The husband receives a special bracelet that allows him to stay in the hospital around the clock, attend childbirth and eat in the canteen for free.
“Our dad Grisha is just a double hero. While I was moaning for aesthetic reasons: “Dear, here is my hand, hold it”, - the midwife busily asked him to help hold the leg, ”said Yulia.
After giving birth, there is a choice: go straight home or stay in a special hotel for mothers with newborns to spend some time there, being under special supervision.
Italy
Pregnant women do not follow any special diet, they eat pasta with tomato sauce for lunch and drink coffee. A small amount of wine is also considered socially acceptable, the waiters will offer this drink, even if the visitor can already see the belly.
After the birth of the child, all friends and relatives come to visit the mother and the baby. The newborn is carried to show the guests so that they can hold it in their arms and take a photo.
“Relatives and friends with gifts came to my roommate in an endless crowd. They congratulated her, hugged her, took the child in their arms. I was shocked because I gave birth to two children in Belarus and my relatives were not allowed in so that they would not get an infection, ”says Alesia Shautsova on her YouTube channel.
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Japan
A woman with a newborn after the hospital leaves for several months to visit her mother or mother-in-law to get the necessary support there.
Pregnant women are given a special keychain with the inscription “There is a baby in the tummy” and a picture of a mother and a baby. This badge is usually attached to the bag, so others understand that the woman is expecting a baby and take the utmost care. And this keychain also gives you the right to occupy special places in transport.
After giving birth, the mother will have a festive dinner or lunch, and then three meals a day, not inferior to the restaurant one. If the birthday of a woman in labor falls on the postnatal days in the hospital, it does not matter: she will certainly be treated to a piece of cake and presented with a postcard.
“Food, from the point of view of our Soviet-Russian food system, is an allergic horror. They give everything from strawberries to shrimp. There is no concept of diet during breastfeeding. On the contrary, a nutritionist says that a child's brain grows and develops the fastest in the first year of life, so you need to eat a balanced and varied diet. It's hard to grow full brains on one buckwheat and chicken, ”explained SONATA in her blog.
In some hospitals, you need to pay extra for the opportunity to stay with your baby.
Taiwan
Here, it is believed that a positive attitude is very important, because it motivates to have more children. Therefore, Taiwan even built a Hello Kitty-themed hospital where midwives don't wear white coats, but a cute pink uniform.
Pregnancy and childbirth are managed by the same doctor. This approach helps a woman get to know her midwife better, get used to his manner of communication, humor.
According to legend, women should not bathe and wash their hair for about a month, and also need to wear long clothes. When reports of overheating of young mothers began to arrive, more and more centers with air conditioning and baths began to open, where traditions are maintained in a modern version, and mothers are trying to get there. There they are taught to care for the newborn, feed and look after the baby.
Finland
Laughing gas is often used instead of epidural anesthesia for pain relief and is considered safer.
Childbirth takes place without the participation of a doctor, the whole process is supervised by midwives. The doctor is called only in extreme cases, when labor is too delayed or a cesarean section is required.
If a pregnant woman is afraid to give birth, then she can contact the antenatal clinic and report it. She will be sent to a special center where specialists work to help cope with fears.
You must have a car seat with you when you check out. It is in it that the child is transported from the hospital to the home. The medical staff will make sure to check if it is correctly installed in the car.
France
Here, the pregnant woman can write a draft of the birth in advance and indicate in it what kind of lighting she prefers, whether she wants a cesarean, whether she wants doctors to use forceps. Doctors will take into account all wishes, but decisions will be made according to the situation.
The chambers are like hotel rooms. For each pregnant woman in French clinics, separate rooms are provided, which are designed for a mother and one more person. There is a bed for the patient herself and another one for her relative, a hairdryer, a refrigerator, a TV, a wardrobe with a safe. A set of towels and shampoo with gel is provided for each.
6 weeks after giving birth, a woman can start a recovery program that consists of 10 sessions with a midwife or kinesitherapist. The insurance company pays for everything. The program aims to help with problems such as incontinence or prolapse of internal organs.
South Korea
After giving birth, the woman eats a special soup, Miek Guk, which is rich in various vitamins and nutrients. Tradition is that Koreans prepare this soup for their birthday celebrations and remember what their mothers went through to give them life.
The clinics are equipped with beauty salons so that newly minted mothers can pamper themselves.
“Immediately after giving birth in the beauty salon, the masters tidied up my hair. Also pleased with the local massage of the abdomen. The postpartum tummy became flat after a couple of days, and all thanks to oriental medicine, ”says LIMIKLA in his magazine.
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Bonus # 1: it's not easy to find out the gender of a child in Canada
“In Canada, an ultrasound scan does not have the right to voice the sex of the child at all, since you are likely to sue a specialist if the result is different. But in order to find out who will be born to you, there is a paid organization that, for fun, conducts an ultrasound scan for the whole family: on the big screen, all family members who wish, like in a movie theater, can contemplate the baby on the air. In the process, gender is determined, videos and photos are taken, as well as an opportunity to buy a teddy bear with a record of the baby's heartbeat. ”© Elena Palatnik / Palleon
Bonus number 2: in Germany, after giving birth, women expect various amenities
“I decided to show the birth through the eyes of my father. A few months before them, we were at the "presentation" of the hospital, and the head physician persuaded them to give birth for half an hour. He told me how good things are with them and so on. Today, after giving birth, they gave all sorts of gifts: diapers, baby clothes for newborns, creams. A trifle, but nice! On the discharge, they will give something else. Germany. ”© kiruxxxa / pikabu
What do you remember about your stay in the hospital? And which place would you choose to give birth?
