Yasmina Aulés Leiva had prepared thoroughly for a physiological birth at the Casa Laietània birth center at Hospital Germans Trias (Can Ruti). However, after 24 hours of her water breaking, she was informed she needed antibiotics, which prevented her from continuing the process in a space exclusively for non-medicalized births.
This situation forced Yasmina to move to her second option, La Maternitat of Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. There, monitoring detected that her daughter was suffering, requiring an immediate emergency C-section.
“"The first thing my daughter Júlia taught me is that you cannot control everything."
Her story is the fifth of nine testimonies featured in the podcast Aigües trencades. Un pòdcast molt ben parit. This project seeks to break the silence surrounding childbirth and open a dialogue space on topics such as home birth, obstetric violence, C-sections, and perinatal grief.
