Today, November 25, the International Day against Gender Violence, one of the biggest blunders of our society. From Babies and more, as well as from other associations that defend women's rights in childbirth care, we believe that obstetric violence should be considered as a form of violence against women.
Therefore, today is a special day to claim the right of women to give birth in freedom and as she wishes, participating in decisions about her own body. We join, therefore Stop against obstetric violence.
Do not let her decide on the form and posture she wants to adopt to delay and during the expulsion, prevent her from making decisions about the process, apply protocols that prohibit her from moving, eating, drinking, deciding on the company she wants at that time, breaking the bag and practice episiotomy without justification and separate the newborn are some of the abuses that occur towards women during childbirth.
A very clear sample of what the woman goes through in childbirth, under the excuse that everything that is done is "For your own good" It is the excellent short by Iciar Bollaín that today we wanted to rescue to illustrate the post.
But of course, as the child was born well "what is important", it seems that everything is forgotten. Something like forgiveness after the act of violence. This cannot happen, childbirth care needs a real change, and although there is still a long way to go, little by little we see some "green shoots" in terms of humanization of birth.
