The Mother Infantil de Santa Catarina Hospital, located in Crisium, this Monday (11) recorded a record for the highest birth rate since the expansion of the institution in December 2018.

Children’s Hospital in Crisium broke the record for the number of births in one day – Photo: HMICS/Disclosure/ND

From 00:00 to 24:00, 20 operations were performed, including 10 caesarean sections and 10 normal deliveries. “Before that, the record was 18 in one day,” recalls Ana Carolina Porfirio Jeremias, Nurse Coordinator for the institution’s obstetrics and maternity hospital.

One of the births was to mother Natalia Crepaldi Retamar, who at 5:46 am gave birth to her son Pedro Enrique in a normal delivery. “God has appeared in our lives. I also thank the whole team of the morning shift, who all the time knew how to act with care and love, so that I was here now, with our boy in my arms, ”Natalia thanked on social networks.

“Thank you to the entire team of the Santa Catarina hospital who, despite being tired, were very polite and patient with us at the end of the shift, giving us all the help they could,” wrote Pope Bruno Retamar. Pedro Enrique was born with a height of 49 centimeters, weighing 3.6 kilograms and was discharged with his mother on Tuesday (12) morning.

A family from Crisium, as well as the origin of 14 other births held on Monday in the hospital. On the same day, procedures were carried out on three mothers living in Forquilinha, one from Cocal do Sul and one from Morro da Fumas.

From January 1st to June 30th, the Maternity and Infantil Santa Catarina Hospital hosts 1,571 births, an average of eight per day.