Parir en casa en tiempos de coronavirus

To the unknowns that usually surround the act of birth, new uncertainties are now added due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Uncertainty about how the saturation of health services will affect your deliveries or what is the best way to act. The protocols change overnight and in some hospitals they are forced to give birth alone or are separated from their babies as soon as they are born. For all this, many pregnant women about to give birth are experiencing the final stage of their pregnancies very distressed. It is not surprising that requests to give birth at home have tripled at this time in Catalonia. The aim of this work is to describe the experience of a pregnant woman who decided to give birth at home almost at the end of her pregnancy and her experience of the whole process. Through the in-depth interview, carried out at various times, the sequential account is obtained from the 38th week of gestation until delivery, which took place on April 13, 2020. The experience of giving birth and accompanying a birth is interpreted as a demonstration of the human capacities, energy and potential of each person. After this crisis, the health authorities should rethink whether hospitals are the best setting for delivery. One more task that we will have to face in the future, we hope, not too far away.