Who is Responsible for the Child?

A popular approach to childbirth in our country is to shift responsibility for your child to strangers - even doctors. When you send your wife to give birth, and the doors of the maternity hospital close behind her, don’t you think that you are shifting responsibility for her life and the life of your child to other people? They may be professionals, doctors, but at the same time they are strangers who work with a flow of... patients. Although we are talking about a completely normal, physiological state of the body - pregnancy.

This is how the head of the medical center, obstetrician Tamara Sadovaya, begins her address to future dads. In her opinion, a woman blossoms during pregnancy, and her task is not to survive, but to live this condition normally. And a midwife, she believes, should not only deliver births, but also communicate with the woman from the very beginning of pregnancy.

During the Soviet period in our country, attitudes towards pregnancy and childbirth have changed greatly. A modern man considers his main task to be to send his wife to the best maternity hospital - the one where there are familiar doctors and where the food is better. The woman herself thinks that they will inject her with something, and everything will go fine.

Many men have to solve many problems of their pregnant wife, at a loss as to how to help. Women suffer because at a very important moment in their lives they find themselves alone with strangers. Now the husband may be allowed into the delivery room, but most often he is just a static observer.

Tamara Sadovaya encourages future parents to pay attention to traditional obstetrics. In which the midwife is not only a health professional, but also a teacher and a friend. Her work should not be limited to delivering babies. From the very beginning of pregnancy, the midwife should answer all questions and teach behavior before, during and after childbirth.

Statistics from Internet sites on women's health confirm that women need such information. One of the most popular pages is The first signs of pregnancy. Women are interested in what they can eat, drink, whether it is necessary to limit physical activity