Giving birth is not an easy task, but when you have to be wary of the Covid-19, it can quickly become scary for moms-to-be. Cahors’ maternity redoubles her efforts and care to make sure everything goes well.
In normal times, the staff of the Cahors maternity are already very caring for future mothers and their babies; but in this period of health crisis they redouble their attention and care to make these births moments of sweet happiness.
In the service of doctor Franck Léonard, coordinator of the Mother-child pole of the hospital of Cahors, all apply to the letter the health recommendations that the doctor details: “We indeed follow the directives of the coordinated Perinatal Network of Occitania by the Toulouse University Hospital, which led us to set up a specific birthing room and an obstetrical unit dedicated to mothers suspected of being carriers of the virus, mothers who are systematically questioned about their state of health and their possible symptoms. To date, we have had a dozen possible cases, but only one has been positive and it was a woman at the very beginning of pregnancy. “
If materially and physically these two care pathways are well differentiated and isolated, they also had to be accompanied by a reorganization of the workforce and teams. “We have split the midwifery guards, quotes as an example Doctor Franck Léonard. To allow us to have an additional on-call duty dedicated to the Covid-19 obstetric course, we now have guards for 3 midwives instead of 2. With the arrival of the epidemic, our entire service has been completely redesigned, with internal resources, a lot of solidarity and volunteering “.
In Cahors, the father or the accompanying person is also welcomed, but according to a well-established protocol. He can thus attend the delivery – equipped with foot-to-head protection as soon as he enters this service – and he is authorized to stay for two hours after birth. Then he will only come back to look for mom and baby.
So in maternity, we try to provide the best support and reassure women. “Scientific data shows that the risk of contamination from mother to child is very very low. They are not prevented from breastfeeding, the virus is not present in breast milk. A virus that has no “elsewhere not shown of particular severity in women Covid positive giving birth; nor has it presented any complication in women during the first two months of pregnancy”, wishes to remind the person in charge of maternity, while quoting learned societies and their benchmark publications.
“It is a difficult period for parturients and their families, especially when it is the first child. So we make sure to limit the duration of their stay in our service to only 2 or 3 days to allow mothers to find quickly their spouses, “observes the head of maternity.
But there is no question of being left without resources with your newborn baby at home. Again, maternity can rely on the Liberal midwives in the Lot, the PMI and childcare assistants who are particularly invested and involved.
“This health crisis has the merit of having revealed in our department the solidarity that already existed between professionals but in an even more marked way. Even within maternity, our ties have tightened. We have also realized the importance of the psychological aspect and the need to reinforce the benevolent accompaniment of mothers in the support that we bring to them “, concludes doctor Franck Léonard.
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