The Maternity Clinic
by Bearj B Photo Art
Title
The Maternity Clinic
Artist
Bearj B Photo Art
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
During the Soviet Era, traditionally, women were admitted, alone, to the maternity clinic for their labor, delivery and postpartum care: family members were not admitted into the building and women were hospitalized for 7 to 10 days. Neither husbands, nor family members were not able to visit, or even ask how the mother and child were. The Doctors were too busy and the nurses knew nothing. Subsequently, women labored alone.
Little attention was paid to privacy or dignity, partly because this was not deemed a priority. The women were placed in a labor ward, with anywhere from two, to as many as twenty other women.
Routine monitoring was often undertaken on a centrally positioned examination table where she would be examined in full view of the others in the room. Privacy was not a consideration, there were no room dividers or curtains.
Mothers did not usually hold or even touch their babies, let alone breastfeed them, until several hours, or even days after birth, depending upon the type of delivery.
Things have gradually changed, but in many of the post-Soviet countries, it still has a long way to go.
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June 30th, 2019
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