Emergency caesarean section

Breast milk is the best possible nutrition for your baby. Close contact with your baby – skin-to-skin bonding – not just in the first few hours of life, is the first step towards successful breastfeeding.

Unfortunately, some births and pregnancies are complicated by an emergency situation that can only be resolved by an emergency caesarean section. In such cases, the operation is unplanned, and it is not always possible to ensure the same conditions as for a planned operation. Nevertheless, we perform almost all emergency caesarean sections under spinal anaesthesia (general anaesthesia is used only in very exceptional cases), and, if the situation allows, we also permit the father (or doula) to be present in the operating theatre in these cases. The condition of the baby and the mother is decisive in determining the possibility of early bonding, but if the situation permits, we strive to facilitate this even in these circumstances.