The Birth (Salvation)

Confinement

Labor, whereby a child and then the placenta membranes are born, for a everyone, but especially for the expectant mother a very profound and special event. The cervix opens under the influence of contractions (contractions) of the uterus, then the child be pushed out.
Because of the growth of the child, the uterus is stretched, and starting from the 20th week of pregnancy, it is also the lower part of the uterus, the cervix, an integral part of the entire uterus. After the child was born, attracting the stretched uterus to contract, causing the placenta detaching from the uterine wall to lie. The placenta membranes contractions can then be born.

The Location of the Delivery

In the Netherlands there is a unique system, that it is possible at home or in hospital to give birth. In the other European countries is not possible, since it is normal to the hospital to give birth. The woman has a free choice to decide where they want to give birth, but there is a slight pressure at home to give birth if the woman is healthy.

If women are asked where they would most want to give birth, it says 68% prefer home. The reasons are that they often find that pregnancy and childbirth is a natural process (no disease) and therefore quite at home. Other reasons include a sense of intimacy, warmth and comfort of their own home. In practice, only half of those women actually give birth at home. The causes are:

•    many have a medical condition in the hospital to give birth
•    a number used during childbirth for various medical reasons redirected
•    some have already decided in advance to an outpatient at the hospital to give birth
•    The other women, so 32% would prefer a hospital birth. Their arguments are that they feel safer in a hospital or because the previous childbirth complications occurred a 2nd time they do not want to experience.

In practice this means that of all women who gave birth only 35% and 65% give birth at home for various reasons in the hospital.