For ancient times, most of us understand through film and television dramas, but film and television dramas have been improved in many places in order to be more beautiful and attractive, such as ancient children.
Naturally, there is no shortage of childbirth scenes in film and television dramas, although the main actors and characters are different, but the same is that they are all lying on the bed like modern times, but this is not the case in history!
Ancient women were
"Vertical Delivery"
Mainly, it means to produce standing or sitting. It may seem strange to us now, but that's the way it is, and there's been a lot of relevant records.
The ancients may not have as broad a vision as ours, but they are definitely not stupid, they all chose the most suitable way of childbirth, Yang Kanghou, a famous medical scientist in the Song Dynasty, wrote it in the "Ten Births"
"The son will be born, and his mother will be tired, and he will sit on the mattress for a long time, and he will be on his way to life."
The meaning of this sentence is that the pregnant women at that time adopted a sitting posture, and the evidence of horizontal delivery, reverse delivery, sitting birth, and obstruction of labor are also discussed in the whole book.
"You must use a hand towel and tie it to a high place, so that your mother can climb it with your hands"
And then
"Gently bend the foot to sit, the child is relaxed, and the child is born",
This has appeared in Zhao Liying's works.
In Chongqing's famous Dazu stone carving, there is a pair of "Grace of Suffering in Labor", which depicts a woman who is about to give birth, and a midwife stands in front of her with her sleeves rolled up to prepare for delivery, which was made in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Of course, giving birth while standing is not a patent of ancient China, and there is a relief of the last queen, Clegbala, who gave birth in the palace of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, showing Cleopatra kneeling, surrounded by five women, one of whom is delivering the baby. It was in vertical delivery that the Clementa was used
Kneeling
。
And in the process of archaeology, a babylonian special chair for childbirth has also been found, which has been more than two thousand years old.
In this way, in the minds of the ancients, vertical childbirth was definitely not a minority. So why don't they choose to live lying down? Wouldn't that be more comfortable?
In fact, it is mainly related to the times and the environment, the medical level of ancient people is relatively low, there are not so many disinfection methods, lying down is very easy to cause infection.
And vertical childbirth can make production easier, using the physiological characteristics of the human body to reduce the probability of dystocia, after all, in ancient times, once difficult childbirth was equivalent to one corpse and two lives.
These must be the ways that the ancients came up with after experiencing the verification of life, and there has not been a dynasty in the past that does not attach importance to the population, and those in power agree that the explanation is more effective, which is actually confirmed by some news now.
Many women go shopping for vegetables or shopping with big bellies, and the children are born unconsciously, which also makes many netizens very surprised.
Today's medical conditions have become better, the choice of production methods is also much more, some people in order to reduce the pain of the body and even choose underwater childbirth, in fact, these are in order to be able to give birth to a baby smoothly, the ancient vertical production is also for this purpose!