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Maternity
The patient must go to the main lobby and inform Reception of her arrival.
She will be seen by the team of midwives, who will perform an examination and foetal monitoring. After this examination, the midwife on call will contact your gynaecologist and they will decide how to proceed.
Admission for labour and birth
A few days before the due date, we recommend that you have the following items ready:
- Clothing for the mother during her stay (taking breastfeeding into account)
- Warm clothing for the baby (4 changes)
- Wash bag and toiletries for the mother
- Postpartum support belt, if advised by the gynaecologist
- Earrings (gold / surgical steel), which must be bathed in surgical spirit for 24 hours before they are put on the baby.
- Dummies
All the rest: nappies, milk, feeding bottle, etc. will be supplied by the clinic during your stay.
►Admission for labour and birth usually involves a hospital stay of about 2 to 3 days on the fourth floor.
►You will stay in your room during the dilation process and for foetal monitoring, examinations by the midwife and preparation, so it is recommended that visits should be restricted during this period.
►When the midwife considers that the time is right, you will be taken to the delivery room.
►If you would like an Epidural anaesthetic, you must inform the midwife upon admission, so that the anaesthetics department can be forewarned. This anaesthetic is always administered under the authorisation of your gynaecologist, as is the extraction of blood from the umbilical cord to be sent to the cord blood bank. This procedure must be arranged beforehand with the corresponding companies (www.crio-cord.com), which will provide you with all the necessary information.
►Provided that the gynaecologist agrees to it, a relative or partner may enter the delivery room.
►During your time in the delivery room you will be surrounded by a team of specialists:
- Gynaecologist
- Midwife
- Paediatrician
- Anaesthetist
- Nurse
►Once you have returned to your room, and unless the doctors recommend otherwise, the baby will stay in its cot in the room together with the mother, where you will remain until you are discharged.
►After the birth, the midwife and paediatrician will take care of the baby, cleaning it and performing the necessary daily checks. They will also explain to you about feeding, hygiene, vaccinations and metabolic screening of the baby.
Admission for Caesarean section
Before you are admitted, we recommend that you have the following items ready:
- Warm clothing for the baby (6 changes)
- Wash bag and toiletries for the mother
- Postpartum support belt, if advised by the gynaecologist
- Earrings (gold / surgical steel), which must be bathed in surgical spirit for 24 hours before they are put on the baby.
- Dummies
All the rest (nappies, milk, feeding bottle, etc.) is supplied by the clinic during your stay.
►The Caesarean section is either scheduled by your gynaecologist or decided during your stay in hospital.
►In the first case, the patient must go to the main lobby and present the authorisation note (if she has one) or otherwise the prescription note from her gynaecologist.
She will be seen by the team of midwives, who will perform an examination and foetal monitoring. After this examination, the necessary preparations will be made for surgery.
►In the second case, it is the gynaecologist and the midwife who, after assessing the situation, decide to schedule a Caesarean section.
►Admission for a Caesarean section usually involves a hospital stay of about 5 days.
►If you wish to have blood extracted from the umbilical cord, it must be under your gynaecologist's consent, and it will then be sent to the cord blood bank. This procedure must be arranged beforehand with the corresponding companies (www.crio-cord.com), which will provide you with all the corresponding information.
►You partner or relative will not be allowed to enter the operating theatre. We recommend that he/she waits in the room, as the baby will be brought up to the room before the mother.
►During your time in the operating theatre you will be surrounded by a team of specialists:
- Gynaecologist
- Anaesthetist
- Scrub nurse
- Midwife
- Paediatrician
►Once you have returned to your room, and unless the doctors recommend otherwise, the baby will stay in its cot in the room together with the mother, where you will remain until you are discharged.
►After the birth, the midwife and paediatrician take care of the baby, cleaning it and performing the necessary daily checks, as well as explaining to you about feeding, hygiene, vaccinations and metabolic screening.
Clínica Vistahermosa has an agreement with CrioCord
Through this agreement, Clínica Vistahermosa offers its patients the chance to preserve the stem cells from the blood of their newborn baby's umbilical cord.
As the infant develops, haematopoietic stem cells migrate from the liver and spleen to the bone marrow, which takes over the job of producing the different blood cells. When the baby is born, the placenta and umbilical cord still contain stem cells as a consequence of this migration, and this is when the umbilical vein is cannulated and the cells still circulating are collected. The cord blood retrieval procedure is fast and efficient, it is not painful for the mother or the baby and it does not involve any risk.
Stem cells from the umbilical cord blood are currently an alternative to bone marrow transplants in the treatment of oncological and haematological diseases. As well as their current applications, these stem cells can also be a source of hepatic, pancreatic, nerve and endothelial cells. The preservation of UCB cells from newborns is therefore a good opportunity to increase the therapeutic possibilities if necessary in the future.
www.crio-cord.com