I am Wolf Jun, an engineering boy who loves to read history
We watch some film and television dramas, and there are some plots produced by women in the middle, and we always hear the stable mother shouting: "Boil hot water, prepare hot water." "It also gives us the impression that an ancient woman needed a lot of hot water to give birth."
In ancient times, women gave birth, but without the developed health care conditions as they are now, childbirth was a very dangerous thing. Especially in ancient times, there were no various measures for midwifery, and once it was difficult to give birth, it was more fierce and less auspicious, which can really be described as "one foot stepping into the ghost gate".
The need for hot water to help give birth is also the ancient ancestors of the mainland who obtained valuable fertility experience after thousands of years of fertility experience, and burned a large amount of hot water to help women walk through the ghost gate. Although in ancient times people did not understand the direct scientific principles, but in modern times there is a scientific basis.
(1) Provide a sterile environment
In ancient times, although people did not have the concept of bacteria, they still had the awareness of preventing infection, which was accumulated in a long production life, and hot water was to provide a sterile environment.
Although the temperature of hot water is not high and the sterilization effect is limited, it is better than no effect at all. In addition, the cotton cloth, scissors and other items used in midwifery are boiled in boiling water and placed in hot water when used.
There are also women in childbirth, urinary incontinence is a very normal thing, amniotic fluid and other liquids will also be discharged from the vagina, in order to ensure the cleanliness of the production environment, the need to clean up in time, hot water will play a role in cleaning up the environment.
And ancient water, although less pollutants than the current, but there is no disinfection measures, the presence of various bacterial microorganisms in the water is inevitable, with boiling hot water for pregnant women to use, in fact, the first to give water to eliminate the poison.
In short, hot water plays a vital role in disinfection during the birth of pregnant women, providing a sterile production environment for pregnant women and protecting women from bacterial infection.
(2) Relieve maternal muscle pressure
The process of motherhood is a very difficult and long process, not now there are all kinds of means of inducing labor and midwifery, which can greatly shorten the time of childbirth, and it is possible to give birth for several hours or even a day or a few days in ancient times.
Giving birth to a child is a very physically demanding thing, the muscles need to operate for a long time and high load, and muscle fatigue and muscle soreness are inevitable. The hot water here can relieve muscle stress and relieve maternal stress.
In fact, we all have experienced this effect, such as exercising to come back to take a hot bath; after walking for a day, we will feel that the body is very relaxed after soaking, and the same is true when wiping with hot water during production.
The relaxation of the body will also bring about psychological relaxation, so that the nervous spirit of the mother in the high-load production process can be relieved, so that the production process is relatively easy.
(3) Create a warm production environment
In the process of giving birth to a mother, it takes a lot of energy, the process of maternal body temperature will rise, and will sweat a lot, even in the middle of summer environment, the mother is also in a low temperature environment, but it is better than winter.
At this time, the hot water has an auxiliary effect of raising the ambient temperature, so that the maternity environment is moist and warm, although in our ordinary people's view, this temperature we can't stand, but the mother needs this environment.
In particular, the mainland pays special attention to maternal childbirth and postpartum recovery, and these two periods pay special attention to a point, can not be affected by the wind, in fact, can not be blown by the cold wind, a large amount of hot water in the house has played a role in hindering the cold wind.
And in the production process, the need to constantly wipe sweat and excrement to the mother, will come into contact with the skin, if directly wiped with a low-temperature cotton cloth, it will stimulate the mother, unfavorable to production, the cotton cloth washed with hot water will not be irritated, but also help childbirth.
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