More than 2,000 women choose the Hospital Universitario de La Ribera to give birth in the first eleven months of 2011.

-The hospital follow the signs from the World Health Organization (who) as a percentage of vaginal birth

– the epidural anesthesia, the individual expansion boards or the existence of cutting edge technology to meet the Parthians, are some of the advantages which the Hospital offers pregnant women

Alzira, 2011-December A total of 2050 women have chosen the University Hospital of the Bank to give birth during the first eleven months of 2011.

Eight out of ten of these women have had a vaginal birth; in this way, Hospital Universitario de La Ribera follows indications of the World Health Organization (who), as a suitable percentage of vaginal birth in hospitals.

The vaginal is a type of delivery that allows a more rapid recovery of women and that leaves no uterine scar, so the risk of infertility and later infertility is lower.

A certified process

It is recalled that the process of care for pregnant women, childbirth and puerperium of the Hospital Universitario de La Ribera has the quality certificate ISO 9001: 2000 awarded by AENOR, which means recognizing that this process complies with the established procedures and rigid quality control standards.

Thus, there are many advantages to pregnant women Hospital Universitario de La Ribera. In this regard, stresses the existence of individual expansion Chambers, the possibility of having the presence of a companion during dilation and childbirth or single rooms, guaranteeing total privacy and comfort after childbirth.

At the same time, Hospital Universitario de La Ribera offers epidural anesthesia to all women giving birth in which there is no medical contraindication. Mothers, counselled by Hospital medical staff, are free to choose the use of this type of anesthesia, which allows them to be aware at all times of the birthing process while minimizing pain.

This is possible because the Hospital Universitario de La Ribera has always anaesthetists on call in order to apply this type of anesthesia, with the exception of women that the anesthesia epidural may be contraindicated (in cases of disorders of coagulation, very marked hypotension, systemic infection or premises in the area of puncture)(, or neurological disorders, among others).

In addition, Hospital Universitario de La Ribera has cutting-edge technology to meet the pregnancy and childbirth, as a casing of high resolution that allows to obtain three-dimensional images of the fetus, in order to detect growth delays, defects of spine or muscle disorders or intracranial pathologiesCardiac or chest, among other abnormalities, or machines, equipped with pulse oximetry that capture the amount of oxygen that is the child at all times, the registration of the fetal heart beat and the measurement of the intensity of the contractions of the mother.

Hospital Universitario de La Ribera also has a unit of neonatal special care, which is responsible for assisting parents in the care of the newborn. Maternity staff teaches parents about, for example, how does the cure of the umbilical cord.