Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Natural Birth Resources in Mexico City

Besides an ounce or two of formula the nursery gave my son without asking (sneaky, they were, by feeding it to him in a cup), we were very satisfied with our birthing experience here in Mexico City. While I ended up not giving birth in the water, Kishan was born naturally, but not without a supportive team of doctors, doulas, and my husband.

Like I posted before, it took some digging to find doctors and hospitals that were pro-natural birth, pro-lactation, and pro-rooming in (alojamiento conjunto). The general term for this here in Mexico is psicoprofiláxsis. Below is a small list of resources I came across as I was researching having a natural birth in Mexico.

Plenitude (Guadalajara)
Links to Mexico resources from Midwifery Today
Hospital Medica Sur - Lomas (women's hospital that specializes in maternity)

The psicoprofiláxsis community is quite small here in Mexico, and nearly all of them have contacts in other cities besides DF if you can't find what you're looking for on your own.
Posted by Alice at Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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  1. THANK YOU for this post! Im moving to mexico city in a month, and have had my two sweet girlies in natural births! They never saw the nursery, I didnt realize you had to request that in Mexico City. We plan on having another, but he or she will be born in MX. I am so grateful that you have made this info available to all mommies that are , or going to be, pregnant in Mexico City.

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  2. Nice article, thanks for the information.

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