Bradley method in chileans hospitals

          ABSTRACTS
aim: Demonstrate of the effectiveness  bradley method in two hospitals of Chile.

Method: This study is about the conditions of some of the busiest public hospitals of Santiago, to apply them unconventional techniques to relieve pain in childbirth, like Bradley method, with the purpose of health staff know and apply these techniques.

  In San Borja hospital  sixty percent of women are at least 6hours pre-partum, seventy percent of women felt a strong pain before delivery, and  twenty percet  of women had a forceps delivery. 
 In Barros Luco hospital fourty percent of women are least 6 hours pre-partum, eighty percent felt a strong pain before delivery, and twenty percent had a forceps delivery.


During this time in this 2 hospitals women are injected with oxytocin to speed up the process. (and they can not receive visitors). at the time of birth can come a partner, and if possible, anesthesia  is injected.

Result: in the antepartum rooms were implemented balls, hot showers, cold compresses, and let enter a doula  (friend or couple of the woman) to help women to exercise the Bradley method. Finally it was observed in 2 hospitals 80% women with vaginal delivery  dont require  anesthesia, and forceps deliveries decreased 10% on average in the 3 hospitals studied .

Conclusions: if health stuff use these simple elements, or similar alternatives, complications in childbirth would decrease by 40%. and would be better the quality of service in public hospitals chileans.

Key words: Bradley Method, Chilean Hospital, Pain, Childbirth.