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Friday begins the World Childbirth Week. A good opportunity to think about birth all over the world, and to change practices. That's what a clinic in Bruges, in the Gironde, has set up. It has deployed a virtual reality device to soften the separation between mothers who have just delivered by cesarean section and their newborn, who joins the nursery.
The separation, after a cesarean, often generates anguish in the mother. To avoid this, this institution had the idea to offer free this device, which is already interested in other maternity hospitals in France. This is a virtual reality helmet identical to that used by video game enthusiasts. But in the recovery room, it is a young mother who wears it when she leaves the operating room. The connected mother can thus maintain contact with her child despite the physical separation during the first two hours of the baby.
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Helmet to avoid complications
"It's good for them to see that their baby is okay, they see him tattling his hand, they feel safe," said Dr. Renaud Bénichou, who developed this innovation. "As soon as women no longer feel their baby in them, it is a situation of stress that aggravates the complicated follow-up in the postoperative period.We realized that they had less pain.The early rehabilitations post-Cesarean were facilitated. "
Mother of a little girl born fifteen days earlier, Lucie was able to benefit from this device. "The baby did not want to go down so the doctor came out by caesarean section, I was in the recovery room and she nursery and I saw through the helmet," says the young mother. "We do not have to wait for two hours to be brought back to our room to have the first skin to skin. [I had] my baby in my eyes, directly." The family even leaves with a USB key offered by the clinic with images of these first moments of life.