Reproduction is the way of life inheritance, in the process of human development, fertility is the most important, but in the backward ancient times, medical technology is not developed, therefore, women in childbirth occurs in a very high degree of life danger, friends who have watched a lot of costume TV series are estimated to find this phenomenon, that is, when the scene of female production, will see or hear the characters inside the midwife constantly want hot water, in the court, when the concubines are produced, a pot of boiling hot water is brought in by the palace women, and after a while, Hot water with blood was taken out again, anyway, in the female childbirth process, to boil water, the whole process must have the presence of hot water, for such a phenomenon, some people said that they do not understand why to do that, today I will take you to talk about the reasons for this.
The production of a new life is a happy thing for a family, but in the process of giving birth, it is also a process related to the safety of the production of women's lives, you know, in the ancient so backward medical technology environment, most of the women's birth is dependent on themselves, plus the midwife invited by the family from outside to help give birth, in addition, there is no one who understands medical knowledge and hygiene present, so for the mother, giving birth to a child is undoubtedly a gamble, the midwife is just a woman with delivery experience, It is still possible to cope with the general situation, but once there is an accident, then she can only do nothing, through hundreds of years of production experience, people have learned the importance of hot water for women, so the boiling water is introduced into the production process.
Knowledge about this type of bacterial infection is only proposed in modern times, and ancient people do not know the existence of bacteria, they only learned through experience that when giving birth, the presence of hot water will improve the safety of mothers, in ancient foreign countries, women do not know how to use hot water during childbirth, so the probability of danger is very large, so in ancient times on the mainland, when pregnant women give birth to children, they need to boil water.
As for the main reasons for boiling water, the following points are as follows. First of all, hot water can play a role in cleaning, because when the mother is giving birth, the amniotic fluid rupture will appear when the midwife cannot see the situation clearly, at this time, cleaning the body with hot water can make the midwife clear the state of the mother. Secondly, hot water also has the role of disinfection, in ancient times, when the mother gave birth, will be in their own bed, the production environment is relatively bad, easy to cause maternal bacterial infection, some maternal death is a large part because of bacterial infection, so, there is the presence of hot water, in a certain case can play a role in disinfection. Finally, the temperature of hot water is conducive to maternal production, after all, hot water is hot, can effectively help women open the uterus, as well as relaxation, if it is cold water, it will stimulate the mother, causing secondary injury, and hot water can also wipe the dirt on the newborn's body and clean the child's body.
Therefore, in ancient times, when pregnant women gave birth, boiling water was an indispensable thing, and hot water was very important for maternal production, and its emergence, to a certain extent, reduced the danger encountered by pregnant women and improved the safety of mother and child.