Today is International Midwifery Day and we wish all midwives a happy holiday! The midwives are the heroes behind the delivery room and the first to hold up their lives, and we salute this group of ordinary and honorable people.
Yesterday, the City Express told the warm story of Zhou Jinying, a midwife at Hangzhou Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital.
Zhou Jinying is a microcosm of many midwives, who are busy in the clinical frontline, with professionalism and responsibility, greeting the arrival of new life again and again.
For women, the help given by midwives is hard to forget, because they helped themselves through the most difficult time of childbirth.
After the report came out, many readers felt empathy and left messages on the "Orange Persimmon Interactive" App to express sincere thanks to the midwives.
Mobile phone tail number "4833": I was in the Municipal Maternity Hospital to give birth, I was lucky to meet Zhou Jinying midwife, she was super warm, at that time I couldn't stand the pain, in the delivery room to rummage around, she has always cared about me to encourage me, teach me to breathe and exercise relaxation, and then accompany me to fight painlessly. In the end I was born smoothly! Really appreciated the midwives there, they are like angels and are here to wish them a happy holiday!
Netizen "Mother": Increased knowledge, today I learned that there is this "International Midwifery Day". When giving birth, I began to be nervous, and there was another pain, and there was such a cute and amiable person next to me who kept encouraging you to "cheer you up". Then my amniotic fluid broke, and I couldn't remember anything about the heat. On May 5th, on the occasion of International Midwifery Day, I wish all midwives a happy holiday!
Netizen "Summer": In 2020, in the provincial women's insurance experienced a smooth delivery, I could not get up in the delivery room because of broken water, she (he) helped me bring the meal to me, and paid attention to the delivery process at all times in the delivery room. Cheer me up when I was born, wipe my sweat when sweat wets my forehead, hand me the water cup when I need to drink, really thank them,here I wish them a happy holiday!
Netizen "Four Jubilee Tongtang": My two children are in normal birth, and I am grateful to the midwives with superb medical ethics. The past is vividly remembered, on the road of life, you are the witnesses and guardians of life, dedicating your youth and paying great love.
This is just our most ordinary daily work
Thank you for remembering
Knowing that so many netizens left messages to thank him, Zhou Jinying said: "In my opinion, this is just my normal daily work. Thank you for remembering me, it makes me feel more valuable in my work! ”
In fact, most of the time, midwives are "unsung heroes". Because in the delivery room, everyone wears overalls and masks, and many women never see the midwife from beginning to end, nor do they know the name of the midwife.
"Some mothers are particularly attentive, and after giving birth to the baby, they are discharged from the hospital, and they also go back to the hospital to inquire about our names, just to meet and say thank you." Zhou Jinying talked about a pregnant woman she met in September 2018, surnamed Liu.
"At that time, I delivered Ms. Liu, and the whole process was very smooth, and the mother and child were safe. After giving birth to the baby, Ms. Liu returned to the ward. About half a year later, I suddenly received a call from her. ”
It turned out that after Ms. Liu was discharged from the hospital, she specially returned to the hospital to find Zhou Jinying three times. Unfortunately, I didn't see it three times, there was really no way, Ms. Liu called Zhou Jinying's phone, and this was contacted. A year later, Ms. Liu's baby was two years old, and she went to the hospital with her husband and sent a pennant to Zhou Jinying to express her gratitude.
Xia Hongxia: When I was in high school, I aspired to be a midwife
Xia Hongxia is a midwife at Hangzhou Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, aged 34. Choosing this career, she said she had already made a commitment when she was still in high school.
"When I watched the TV series and saw the midwife deliver the baby safely, I made up my mind because I felt it was a sacred profession." With the support of her family, Xia Hongxia successfully became a midwife. By this year, she had been quietly working in her job for 13 years.
Every time a woman gives birth to a baby, she is very happy
Once, Xia Hongxia had just left the day shift, and a pregnant woman was screaming because of the pain of uterine contractions. Xia Hongxia quickly walked to her side, grabbed the mother's hand while introducing herself: "As long as you believe in me and cooperate with me, I will help you alleviate the pain and help you give birth early..."
"At that time, the mother looked at me, felt like she had grasped the 'life-saving straw', and nodded her head hard. I accompanied her to let her get out of bed first, and then instructed her in various positions to give birth with breathing pain reduction methods. Slowly, she said, the pain was not as strong as before. I stayed with her until the baby was born. Xia Hongxia recalled.
Xia Hongxia was comforting the mother
When the mother gave birth smoothly, it was more than 3 a.m., and Xia Hongxia worked overtime for more than 10 hours, without even drinking saliva in the middle. When she saw the mother holding the baby and shed tears and say "thank you", she felt that everything was worth it.
Xia Hongxia smiled and said, "Usually we work three shifts, sometimes it's really hard. It is also inevitable that we will encounter some women whose birth is not so smooth, and perhaps when they are most helpless, we have given encouragement and help to let them have a safe and smooth birth. So no matter how tired it is, it is nothing, more of a sense of accomplishment. I have received thank-you letters, pennants, and glass pen holders engraved with the child's name... All of this means a lot to me, and it's all an affirmation of our job. ”
The post-90s male midwife lamented:
It's not easy to have a baby
Everyone should be better with mom and wife
As early as a decade ago, male midwives were rarely seen in the delivery room, but in recent years, there have been more and more male midwives in the delivery room.
In Hangzhou Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, there are now 4 male midwives, the youngest of whom is a young man born in 1998.
Wang Xuanyi, 23 years old, began working in midwifery nursing at Hangzhou Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in 2019. "In the past, when I was in the graduate rotation internship, I was also involved in the emergency department of other hospitals, and I was involved in the rescue of many critically ill patients. However, in the delivery room, it is different, mainly prenatal and postnatal management, including observing the progress of maternal labor, taking care of the physical and psychological needs of pregnant women, and recording postpartum information of mothers and newborn babies. ”
"When I first started working, to be honest, it was a bit embarrassing at first, but I quickly adjusted my mindset, because from the perspective of a medical worker, doing a good job of nursing services and helping women is the first priority."
Wang Recall said that the proportion of women and their families receiving higher education is high, and they can generally receive nursing and examination by male nurses, but there will be exceptions. "I have also encountered individual pregnant women before, and I am more concerned about men, so we will also ask for the opinions of mothers and their families in advance when we work, and most of them can understand and accept."
Speaking of the feelings of engaging in the male midwife profession, Wang Xuan recalled and said, "The biggest feeling is 'very painful', women give birth to babies is really hard, it is not easy, I hope everyone is better for their mothers, but also for their wives!" ”
Wang fang:
As a midwife, the hardest thing is to persevere
Wang Fang is the chief nurse of the obstetrics and gynecology department of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine and the head nurse of the delivery room. In early 2004, two years after graduating and joining the workforce, she rotated to the delivery room and worked for more than 10 years.
In the beginning, Wang Fang could see many "desperate mothers" due to pain every day. She remembers a mother who knocked on the delivery bed and sang loudly when the contractions were severe. Wang Fang asked her why, and she said that this could distract herself and relieve her pain a little, otherwise she really couldn't stand it.
This incident touched Wang Fang greatly, and when she saw that the mother herself was trying to relieve the pain, she was also touched and distressed as a woman. Therefore, when she was later exposed to non-drug analgesia and found that she could help those "desperate mothers" by using positioning, hot and cold compresses, massage and other methods, she was sincerely happy.
In 2005, in order to further improve, Wang Fang studied as a graduate student in nursing, and her research direction was labor analgesia. Nowadays, with the gradual promotion and application of painless childbirth, the organic combination of painless delivery and non-drug analgesia, there are now fewer and fewer "desperate women" due to pain.
"In fact, as a midwife, the hardest thing is to persevere." The work intensity of the night shift, the body changes with age, some midwives will want to leave the post after the age of 35, but the work in the delivery room requires senior midwives.
So there are many people like Wang Fang who still stick to the position of midwife.
Thanks and best wishes to all midwives again and Happy Holidays!
Source: Orange Persimmon Interactive City Express