The cycle of life and death is a natural law, the ancients regarded the birth of a baby as the beginning of everything, and it is very important to have a child, mainly because the ancient population was small, the fertility rate was low, coupled with the low survival rate of children, it was very difficult to raise an adult child.
Take the familiar Qing Dynasty, during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor, a total of 55 children were born, including 35 sons and 20 daughters, of which 21 children died before the age of 3.
These princesses, brothers are still easy to die, not to mention the children of ordinary people's families, in ancient times the level of medical treatment is low, children are the most dangerous during childbirth, pregnancy is also easy to give birth, ancient can not have progesterone injections, at most drink Chinese medicine to protect the fetus.
In some film and television dramas, it is often seen that the ancient woman gave birth to a child, the actress is pretending to be in pain and shouting, in fact, this is unscientific, the woman who really gives birth to a child has more strength to shout, at most it is too painful to bear it and will occasionally scream.
In addition, there is a very fake scene that does not respect the facts, that is, the midwife asks "Bao big or small?" "Under the low medical level in ancient times, if there is really a situation where there is a difficult birth or a choice, the vast majority of them cannot be saved, which is a terrible fact."
So, what was the real situation of women giving birth to children in ancient times? In ancient times, when medical care was low, how did women give birth? Are there any special ways to give birth?
In fact, everyone knows that normal childbirth is the law of fertility, which has been the case since ancient times, and so far, normal birth is still the main mode of production, but at this time and time, although it is a normal birth, the smooth birth of ancient women and the smooth birth of today's women are not the same thing.
Ancient women giving birth to children is a very dangerous thing, some places call women giving birth to children "through the ghost door", which means that giving birth to a child, the woman is equivalent to closing the ghost door once, which shows that ancient women were afraid of giving birth to children.
Of course, the midwife also has her own unique way of midwifery, generally the midwife pushes out the stomach, which is the production method of ancient women, but in the history of thousands of years, there are also exceptions to the production story, which is not a smooth birth.
Saying that everyone may not believe it, as early as two thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese people would have a caesarean section, according to Sima Qian's "History of the Chu Family", "Lu had six children, and che (che) was caesarean section and gave birth." "Such abnormal (vaginal) babies are often seen as gods or saints.
In ancient books, it is recorded that dayu who treats water is caesarean section, and the shang dynasty ancestor Qi and others are also caesarean section, but due to the low level of ancient medical treatment, it does not meet the standard of caesarean section, and when performing a caesarean section, it is often "two choices", baoda or small?
Great mothers will take the initiative to choose to give up themselves and give birth to children, this situation also existed in ancient Western society, and even the law stipulates that pregnant women must be dissected after death to bury the baby, in addition, the ancients paid a lot of attention to children, and the customs of different regions were different to show respect for fertility.