A Tale
The prefect was lying on the chair behind his desk watching the snow fall from early morning. The ring of the telephone woke him up, lifted the gray tube but there was nobody on the other side. Incredulous grabbed the red phone, that since he had been moved to Bariloche sounded once.
"Hello, Speak!
"Hello, I speak with the Coast Guard Argentina.
"Yes ... more exactly with the Governor González.
"I have a suspicion of murder.
- Can you tell me your name?
"I prefer to remain anonymous.
"But, why not call the police?
"Because I think the body is in the lagoon ghost.
Half an hour later the mayor was having tea at the home of the caller. The lady was sitting beside a big window with embroidered linen curtains. He was about 75 years, calculated the prefect. Proved one of the cookies ginger tasted old. She spoke while knitting in her rocking chair. A cat sleeping in her lap.
He started as a normal day. The husband went out at 9 for the job. Half an hour later came the woman doing the cleaning. At 11 or so the exit I saw her with her daughter's hand and a friend of the girl.
- Who is she?
"The one killed.
"Well.
"After a while came back alone. The children were playing in the square.
- What place?
The lady pointed to the index. He stopped to watch. From that window you could see everything, he thought. I still could not get used to these huge openings where nature suddenly assailed him.
"That was the last time I saw her.
- Can you describe it, please?
"It was a beautiful young woman. She was just 35 years. But in recent months saw more disheveled, with a face. There was never pulled a gray camperón made it fatter than it was.
The governor heard a noise upstairs. Suddenly he saw two cats down tying their tails.
"And the cleaning lady, do you see out?
"Yes, he had retired before she returned.
- Did you leave the door unlocked?
"No, locked and hidden in the boot leaves yellow. Believes that no one sees. At noon came
the husband for lunch. Some friends went to look for the baby to take her to the garden. So here it seemed a normal day.
-Aha ...
"The first thing suspicious was that just took the girl, was a black car, who had never seen before. Down two unknown women.
- Do could describe please?
"Yes of course. Both had long, straight hair, so I could not see them very well face. The lowest was carrying a black bag. Highest opened the door of the house to pass, as the bag seemed heavy.
- And how they were dressed?
Wait! if not forgotten. The highest came as if he knew that door was open and they were waiting. Excuse me, what I had asked?
- What clothes did they have?
not remember the exact color, but it sure was dark.
- Her husband was gone?
"No, that evening had not returned to work. It also seemed odd.
- Are you sure?
"The car was parked there overnight.
The prefect returned to lift a finger to keep full of warts. From that angle it looked inside the house. I had two windows and both eyes open.
-addition, and this confirms my hypothesis: Before I saw the girl go back to husband with a large blood-stained plastic. He threw to the garbage that's out.
- How do you know it was blood?
At night when I went to pull away. I crossed and I noticed. There was a lot.
"Well, back to the moment they enter the two women.
"That I could not see, the husband shut the curtains. So I left my needles and started to prepare lunch for my cats. We were eating when I thought I heard a scream. I noticed if the space was a child. It was siesta time, the neighborhood dies at this time. Another cry more. This time I was sure it was a woman.
- How is it that no other neighbor los escuchó?
Es que el vecino de la derecha es un divorciado que anda durmiendo por ahí y se olvida de darle de comer a su pobre perra. El otro vive en Bs. As. Atrás hay un mallín: solo teros y patos.
-¿Y qué hizo cuando oyó los gritos?
Me encerré en mi casa: puertas y ventanas. No sabía bien qué hacer. Los gritos se oían de todas formas. Luego salieron las dos mujeres con la bolsa negra, parecía muy pesada. La llevaban entre las dos. El auto que las había traído las estaba esperando en la puerta.
El prefecto salió de la casa pensando que todo era un delirio de la vieja. En caso que hubiera un crimen, ella sería la primer sospechosa. Cruzó la calle. Abrió the trash. He found the plastic. Hit the door. A man who matched the descriptions of her husband made it happen. It was 3 pm-hours of work-calculated. The television was on. Next, a table with a sandwich and a glass of champagne. Celebrating her new life, he thought.
The mayor began the interrogation. The husband answered every question, strangely relaxed. Perhaps he was under the influence of alcohol.
Suddenly, the prefect was down to a woman in a nightgown, white, antique lace. He wore a wool shawl that hung at the elbows. She settled gently on the couch, looked as if anything, got the strap leaving her right breast exposed. For a moment, the mayor did not think, not calculated, did not mean anything ... Until I saw a mouth that came out of the folds of the shawl and desperately hold on the nipple. Then all tracks
fell suddenly as in the slot:-cries-fatter plastic blood-a baby.
"Excuse me sir, where did you have your baby?
"Here at home. Exactly where you stand. Verónica Fernández Battaglia
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Radio Cb President Jack
Children can also be born in the house living
Increasingly mothers choose to give birth at home, something natural in Europe and the U.S.. Some excesses of traditional medicine that couples are looking for alternatives.
If the world, in every way and always, always changing, why not going to change the way you reach it? tired of certain enforcement and medical practice seeking an alternative to a health system that they find it aggressive. This helps to understand why in recent years doubled home births, as they say several experts consulted by "Black River".
While this trend is something "new" in our country, not the case in other countries like Holland, where forty percent of babies born at home with the assistance of professionals.
in the United States between 1996 and 2006, births homes increased by 27%, according to the Register of Midwives, and averaged about 40,000 a year. In Germany, Spain and Britain is also common for mothers to have their children at home. "This is not the best nor the worst, the idea is to think and us question how much truth there. Everyone has his own and sees life through the lens you chose," says Gabriela Kozyra, a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires medical specialist in gynecology and obstetrics. When a woman learns she is pregnant, she entered a new stage and begins to wonder where, who and how will you have your baby.
"Where?" Hospital, clinic, sanatorium why o. .. not at home? Kozyra, he suggests. Who? The obstetrician believes deeply that has the power to choose how you will take delivery the patient, who is going to be, what the professionals will attend and in what position. In other words, will direct. Decide when born: if you have other deliveries that day, behind or ahead at your convenience, "said Kozyra, who strongly criticized the current medical system:" The midwife, who once was of immense importance, became the servant of obstetrician, who tells him what to do, for example, delaying delivery because the obstetrician has to attend his office. We are all prisoners of the system. Doctors are victims and victimizers. The obstetrician does what he can. Patients usually do not know any other option. The doctor has to make his fee, otherwise no pays, to achieve the economic gap, must attend 30 or more deliveries per month. In turn, the neonatologist decide what to do with the baby, who was quiet in the belly of the mother, comes into this world and get attack: probe light in the eye drops and, worse, they are separated immediately from Mom. It seems so violent that but he lives for granted. This is the training they receive, "said Kozyra.
What is humanized birth?
In his book" give birth in freedom, "Raquel Schallmoser, the graduate midwife UBA in 1967, says that women must "regain the ability to decide what we do and how we want to be when our children are born. To be free again and led only by self-determination.
do so naturally, respect our wishes and deepest needs and unknown ; launch into the adventure of regaining freedom. "
Experts say the most important thing is that women make their own choice, from what obstetrician wants to attend, that could very well be the living room of your house or your room if she wants. This does not mean a hospital or clinic to be a negative option, whenever she chooses. "The home deliveries are spectacular and safe. Mom has the power to choose who you want to be: obstetrician, midwife, her husband, a friend's child, the person she wants, "says Kozyra.
Schallmoser, who makes home deliveries since 1985, proposes to give birth "is an absolutely genital and sexual is not merely a medical condition, disease risk, but has to do with life, pleasure, joy, hope and intense emotions. If everyone were afraid to ask 'How can I have my son? "," Where? "," How? ", Look what you need, take the pain and fear, which do exist, and have their rationale, "and learn to use them to promote the process and find strategies and much more practical, everyday, simple and close to an epidural anesthetic that not only pain but also pleasure. Which frightens the pain, the pleasure is so frightening? So some women find that the choice is infinitely more extensive than had been imagined. "
who choose give birth at home looking for the times and how both natural and as close to their elections." Give birth standing is not new, is in Mayan and Egyptian sculptures. Labor is like a wish: lying, standing, squatting in the bathtub, in a chair in labor, with music, silent or occur to the mother, "said Kozyra, who notes that the newborn is left with the mother just out of the belly.
turn, says that several medical practices are preventable," Needless to episiotomy. Muscles are cut and it is not necessary. "Specialist refers to something that happens very often: about 80% of women who gave birth during the last year in medical centers made it episiotomy (cut in the vagina to enlarge the birth canal) and 70% were caesarean section, although the World Health Organization indicates that these cases should not exceed 15%.
Meanwhile, a growing number of couples who are inclined to gentle birth, where priority is given to the privacy of the mother and her environment. Analía Gambirazio, director of Artemamá and social psychologist, gave his view: "The idea is to work on the link to the future child from being in the womb. The mother-child dyad is irreplaceable. The humanized birth is not violent or invades babies or couples, and the father has the ability to take an active role, becoming head of the situation because at the time the woman is pure instinct. Finally, the important thing is to choose from more aware place. "
Note Published By JUAN IGNACIO PEREYRA
ipereyra@netkey.com.ar
Journal Black River from August 7, 2009
Increasingly mothers choose to give birth at home, something natural in Europe and the U.S.. Some excesses of traditional medicine that couples are looking for alternatives.
If the world, in every way and always, always changing, why not going to change the way you reach it? tired of certain enforcement and medical practice seeking an alternative to a health system that they find it aggressive. This helps to understand why in recent years doubled home births, as they say several experts consulted by "Black River".
While this trend is something "new" in our country, not the case in other countries like Holland, where forty percent of babies born at home with the assistance of professionals.
in the United States between 1996 and 2006, births homes increased by 27%, according to the Register of Midwives, and averaged about 40,000 a year. In Germany, Spain and Britain is also common for mothers to have their children at home. "This is not the best nor the worst, the idea is to think and us question how much truth there. Everyone has his own and sees life through the lens you chose," says Gabriela Kozyra, a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires medical specialist in gynecology and obstetrics. When a woman learns she is pregnant, she entered a new stage and begins to wonder where, who and how will you have your baby.
"Where?" Hospital, clinic, sanatorium why o. .. not at home? Kozyra, he suggests. Who? The obstetrician believes deeply that has the power to choose how you will take delivery the patient, who is going to be, what the professionals will attend and in what position. In other words, will direct. Decide when born: if you have other deliveries that day, behind or ahead at your convenience, "said Kozyra, who strongly criticized the current medical system:" The midwife, who once was of immense importance, became the servant of obstetrician, who tells him what to do, for example, delaying delivery because the obstetrician has to attend his office. We are all prisoners of the system. Doctors are victims and victimizers. The obstetrician does what he can. Patients usually do not know any other option. The doctor has to make his fee, otherwise no pays, to achieve the economic gap, must attend 30 or more deliveries per month. In turn, the neonatologist decide what to do with the baby, who was quiet in the belly of the mother, comes into this world and get attack: probe light in the eye drops and, worse, they are separated immediately from Mom. It seems so violent that but he lives for granted. This is the training they receive, "said Kozyra.
What is humanized birth?
In his book" give birth in freedom, "Raquel Schallmoser, the graduate midwife UBA in 1967, says that women must "regain the ability to decide what we do and how we want to be when our children are born. To be free again and led only by self-determination.
do so naturally, respect our wishes and deepest needs and unknown ; launch into the adventure of regaining freedom. "
Experts say the most important thing is that women make their own choice, from what obstetrician wants to attend, that could very well be the living room of your house or your room if she wants. This does not mean a hospital or clinic to be a negative option, whenever she chooses. "The home deliveries are spectacular and safe. Mom has the power to choose who you want to be: obstetrician, midwife, her husband, a friend's child, the person she wants, "says Kozyra.
Schallmoser, who makes home deliveries since 1985, proposes to give birth "is an absolutely genital and sexual is not merely a medical condition, disease risk, but has to do with life, pleasure, joy, hope and intense emotions. If everyone were afraid to ask 'How can I have my son? "," Where? "," How? ", Look what you need, take the pain and fear, which do exist, and have their rationale, "and learn to use them to promote the process and find strategies and much more practical, everyday, simple and close to an epidural anesthetic that not only pain but also pleasure. Which frightens the pain, the pleasure is so frightening? So some women find that the choice is infinitely more extensive than had been imagined. "
who choose give birth at home looking for the times and how both natural and as close to their elections." Give birth standing is not new, is in Mayan and Egyptian sculptures. Labor is like a wish: lying, standing, squatting in the bathtub, in a chair in labor, with music, silent or occur to the mother, "said Kozyra, who notes that the newborn is left with the mother just out of the belly.
turn, says that several medical practices are preventable," Needless to episiotomy. Muscles are cut and it is not necessary. "Specialist refers to something that happens very often: about 80% of women who gave birth during the last year in medical centers made it episiotomy (cut in the vagina to enlarge the birth canal) and 70% were caesarean section, although the World Health Organization indicates that these cases should not exceed 15%.
Meanwhile, a growing number of couples who are inclined to gentle birth, where priority is given to the privacy of the mother and her environment. Analía Gambirazio, director of Artemamá and social psychologist, gave his view: "The idea is to work on the link to the future child from being in the womb. The mother-child dyad is irreplaceable. The humanized birth is not violent or invades babies or couples, and the father has the ability to take an active role, becoming head of the situation because at the time the woman is pure instinct. Finally, the important thing is to choose from more aware place. "
Note Published By JUAN IGNACIO PEREYRA
ipereyra@netkey.com.ar
Journal Black River from August 7, 2009
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