Day: January 16, 2023

Where is the midwife during puerperium?

A few years ago I was writing my thesis, titled “Midwifery care during puerperium: needs- and care recommendations evaluation”. Today I am revisiting that topic, in an even more informed way and with a salutogenic view. First of all, it is necessary to describe who midwives are and why they can be the main reference […]

The importance of pauses

All organic activity, starting with the first embryonic cell, is regulated by a rhythm alternating between contraction and expansion. In other words, you could say that any living being is a pulsating being.   Yet, this active rhythm is periodically interrupted by a pause. In the neurophysiological language, this pause is called default mode […]

PNEI of the second trimester of pregnancy

During the second trimester a change in hormones and in the response to stress may be observed. Such change may be either sudden or gradual. There is a notable increase in the hormones of pleasure, libido, and emotional expansion: progesterone, endorphins, prolactin, and of course oestrogens. From the biological point of view, the hormonal state […]

PNEI of the first trimester of pregnancy

The first trimester of pregnancy, from a PNEI point of view, is defined as the trimester “of chaos”, as is destabilizes and urges the woman to adapt. Hormones induce the woman to become receptive, therefore passive. In order to do so, these hormones slow down the person, overturn daily rhythms, increase sleep, make it impossible […]

What is salutogenesis?

Salutogenesis is the branch of medicine that studies the genesis of health. While studying the onset of diseases, Aaron Antonovsky was the first one to wonder whether there was a way to identify what generates human health. This way, Antonovsky theorised the Sense of Coherence (SOC) of the individual, what determines their individual capacity to […]