In the pregnant school within Samsun Provincial Health Directorate, expectant mothers are preparing for birth by receiving many trainings from pilates training to psychological training. Mothers who went to the school and gave birth normally stated that they benefited from the trainings and called for 'normal birth'.
Many expectant mothers go to the 'Pregnancy Class Training' program organized by Atakum District Health Directorate. Here, expectant mothers are given many trainings such as pregnancy exercises, pilates, newborn care, breastfeeding and washing. In addition, the trainings given by doctors at the pregnancy school also aim to help expectant mothers overcome their fears of normal birth. Mothers who went to the pregnancy school and gave birth normally said that they benefited a lot from the training during and after birth.
Mother Büşra Aydın Kalay said, “We have a 15-day-old baby. In our process, the Community Health Center provided very good support with its trainings. I participated in trainings. In this process, I participated in washing, psychology, pilates trainings. They gave us very good support. Together with many pregnant women here, we supported each other. One of the most important factors affecting the birth here is which way the baby chooses to come. I gave birth with normal delivery and our baby chose this way. It was a nice experience. We had the first contact with our baby.”
Mother Feyza Türk said, “I gave birth normally at 38 weeks. We received trainings at the community health center, whether it was pilates trainings or bath trainings. The breathing exercises I received during pregnancy were very beneficial during birth. The process was under my control. I was thinking of a normal birth as long as there was no problem for the baby or me. I wanted a normal birth in order to be able to take care of my child more easily after birth and in terms of my own health. What was touted to us was that normal birth was very difficult, but I saw the benefits of breathing exercises. I recommend normal birth to everyone,” she said.
“8 thousand of the mothers who attended the pregnancy school preferred the natural one and gave birth normally”
Provincial Director of Health of Samsun Provincial Health Directorate of Atakum District Health Directorate gave information about the 'Pregnant Class Training' program. Dr. Mustafa Uras said, “In order to be with our mothers in these most precious moments of their lives and to prepare them both physically and psychologically for birth, we carry out information work with pregnant schools in our hospitals and pregnant classes in our district health directorates, community health centers and healthy life centers. One of our most important goals in this informative work is to explain to our expectant mothers that normal birth is the natural way, to eliminate their hesitations on this issue and to encourage our mothers to normal birth. In our pregnancy schools and pregnancy classes, we explain to our mothers the importance of this bond, and that normal birth gives the baby a strong immune system and lung development at the very first breath, thanks to the beneficial bacteria in the birth canal. I would like to address all our expectant mothers here; let's listen to these two expectant mothers, think about the positive and strong aspects of normal birth, and prefer the natural one. As Samsun Provincial Health Directorate, we are ready to be with them on this journey with our pregnant information classes in our 17 district health directorates and community health centers and our pregnant schools in 13 hospitals. So far, we have informed and guided more than 35 thousand expectant mothers in our pregnancy school and pregnancy classes on this journey. Approximately 8 thousand of these expectant mothers preferred natural birth and gave birth normally. Hopefully, we will increase this number by explaining the contributions of natural birth to mother and baby. We encourage expectant mothers to participate in our free of charge trainings, to choose the natural option, and to experience all the happiness and healing of that first moment when they meet their babies. All of this shows us that normal birth is the right one. Of course, cesarean section is also a type of birth, but cesarean section is not actually a choice of the expectant mother, cesarean section is a medical necessity that the physician will choose when some events go wrong.”
Trainings continue at Atakum Health Life Center. Here, mothers who gave birth normally and participated in the trainings were given plaques by Director Uras and Atakum District Health Manager Dr. Ömer Barış Çankaya.
