Childbearing is a significant thing for a woman and for a family. While it is a joy for families to welcome new life, maternal childbirth is also painful and dangerous.
We often say that female childbirth is a "ghost door", so it can be seen that childbirth also requires courage, so every mother is a brave woman.
With the progress of medical treatment, the success rate of women's childbirth has gradually increased, and at the same time we can't help but lament the difficulty of women's childbirth in ancient times, there is no doctor, only midwives, and there are no medical equipment and protective measures, a basin of hot water, a pair of scissors to welcome the arrival of countless new lives.
Recently, when a classmate finished giving birth to confinement, watching court dramas at home, she happened to see that ancient women used a lot of hot water to produce, and then she asked me curiously, why did ancient women use hot water for production, but not when giving birth in modern times?
I believe that not only my classmates will have this question, many people have thought about what the hot water used for women to give birth in ancient times was used. Today we will decipher why so much hot water was used in ancient childbirth.
01What is the role of hot water used in ancient women's childbirth?
In fact, the important reason why women used hot water in ancient times was because the medical economy was too underdeveloped, there was no special obstetrics and gynecology doctor at that time, and the ordinary doctors were mostly men.
Therefore, only the midwife can help with childbirth, and in a large number of delivery experiences, they have found that using hot water to help produce during the delivery process can greatly improve the survival rate of mother and child.
Because the medical situation is not good, it is easy to be dangerous during childbirth, and the situation of difficult delivery and heavy bleeding will take the life of the baby and even the mother.
Since the situation is critical, it is necessary to prepare hot water, which must have its effect, so the use of hot water during childbirth is mainly for the following uses.
1) Hot water can play a disinfectant role
Hot water in the maternal production process can play a role in disinfection, although there are now a variety of disinfection methods, ultraviolet irradiation, alcohol disinfection, etc., but in ancient times these disinfection techniques are not, can only use the simplest, and effective hot water.
In fact, now in our lives, we will also use hot water to disinfect something, such as scalding the dishes with hot water, playing a role in sterilization and disinfection, so hot water in ancient women's production, it will indeed play a certain role in disinfection.
Then some people will wonder, since alcohol can be disinfected, can wine also be disinfected, was there not a winemaking technology in ancient times?
Despite this, but wine can not replace alcohol to disinfect, because alcohol is synthetic, and itself is very painful to give birth, and then wiped with wine, the mother can not stand this pain.
2) Use hot water to clean the mother and newborn
As the most basic use of water is cleaning, a lot of blood will be produced during the production process, and hot water is also needed to clean the body of the mother and newborn. However, if it is a low temperature water, it will stimulate the mother in childbirth, so the water temperature must be higher.
And childbirth is a manual work, in the process of childbirth to sweat a lot, so prepare hot water can also rub the mother's body, so that the mother feels more comfortable, but also to help the mother give birth.
3) Hot water can speed up childbirth
We often hear "thermal expansion and cold contraction", this principle is not only reflected in the object, in fact, the human body will also have this phenomenon.
For example, our common pores will open when heated, and tighten when cold is cold. During childbirth, hot water can help the woman open the uterine opening and speed up the mother's delivery process.
Moreover, the hot air emitted by the hot water can make the temperature of the whole room higher, avoiding the cold and wind of the mother during the childbirth.
Although the conditions of childbirth in ancient times were difficult, they have embodied the wisdom of our Chinese nation. In countless experiences, we have found the most successful delivery method, so that our Chinese sons and daughters can continue to reproduce.
Although the current medical treatment has reached a very high level, women still need to pay more attention when giving birth to ensure that the mother gives birth to the baby smoothly.
Now that we know about childbirth in ancient times today, let's talk about how to avoid the unexpected situation in modern women's childbirth.
02 Precautions for modern women giving birth
Although the survival rate of newborns is now very high, there can be no sloppiness in the matter of childbirth, so everyone still needs to do the following precautions regarding childbirth.
Prepare early
After all, we often hear about premature birth in our lives, and rarely hear "late birth", although the delay in childbirth time exists, but the probability is relatively small.
Moreover, the abdominal bulge in the third trimester of pregnancy is obvious, the weight is increased, the mobility is difficult, and it is easy to cause premature birth due to unexpected circumstances.
So, be sure to prepare early, so what do you need to prepare for in the third trimester? A very important point is the "waiting bag", this waiting bag is a must, which will have maternal toiletries, change of clothes, etc., and the mother can put in different necessities.
Because pregnant women need to live in the hospital for a few days after giving birth, these things must be prepared, and the mother will discharge some lochia after giving birth, if the lochia is not clean, it will be detrimental to the recovery of the mother, so it is best to prepare some disposable underwear, convenient and hygienic.
After preparing the mother, it is also necessary to consider the items that the baby needs to use, and to prepare the newborn's warm blanket and bottle. When choosing newborn products, we must pay attention to product quality to avoid the occurrence of baby allergies and other situations.
Be mentally prepared
Before pregnant women enter the delivery room, they will be more or less anxious, especially pregnant women in the first child, it is inevitable that there will be some nervous emotions.
However, the prenatal anxiety of the mother will only hinder the birth process, try to keep the family with you to maintain calm and reason, listen to the guidance of doctors and nurses, and how to relax the emotions during the birth process.
If you can't have a vaginal birth, when the doctor recommends a caesarean section, try to follow the doctor's guidance. Because some pregnant women do not meet the conditions for vaginal delivery, there will only be accidents if they have to have a vaginal birth, or even a halfway through the caesarean section, but the risk and cost will be higher.
From ancient hot water midwifery to modern precision surgical equipment, women's birth processes have become safer, and painless deliveries have reduced much maternal pain.
Therefore, every woman who chooses to have a baby is very brave and strong, and I hope that every expectant mother can give birth smoothly and meet a healthy and lovely baby.