In ancient times, the living conditions were not as good as now, and the medical level was not developed, so it was a very risky thing for a woman to give birth to a child, and if it was not good, there might be a situation of one corpse and two lives. But in order to pass on the generations, there is no way, women can only be the scalp, so in order to improve the survival rate, when women give birth to children, they will find people to deliver babies, these people are called stable mothers.
As can be seen from the name, the arrival of these people is to stabilize production, to ensure that women can give birth smoothly, and to improve the survival rate of children and adults. When the stable mother delivers a woman, in fact, there is no need to prepare any professional tools, in addition to scissors, a more common "sharp weapon" for delivery may be hot water. Probably many people have seen, in many TV series, ancient women need to prepare a lot of hot water to give birth to children, the most popular sentence after busy is that the hot water is boiled? What is the use of hot water?
As we all know, the medical conditions in ancient times were not so good, but if you give birth to a child, it may lead to infection in adults and children if you are not careful, so the work of sterilization and disinfection must be done at this time. And Wen Po is to use hot water to disinfect and sterilize. Because high temperature can kill bacteria, when the mother is giving birth, hot water can be used to disinfect the mother's wound or disinfect scissors, etc., so that the probability of bacterial infection can be reduced.
In addition to disinfection and sterilization, hot water also has a very important role, that is, to wipe the body of the mother at any time, and also for the stable mother to wipe the sweat. After all, giving birth to a child is a very difficult task, whether it is a mother or a stable wife is very nervous, so they will have a lot of sweat on their bodies, and at this time, they need to wipe it in time, especially the mother. If you wipe it directly with cold water, it will cause the mother's body to shrink due to cold, which is not conducive to production, so it is necessary to have a lot of hot water as a backup.
Another unknown use of hot water is to keep the indoor temperature constant, after all, the ancients did not go to the hospital to give birth, and the room they produced did not have a constant temperature. Therefore, it is necessary to rely on the heat generated by hot water to raise the temperature of the whole room and create a warmer environment, so that the child will feel better after birth, which is also beneficial to the mother and the child. I have to say that the ancients were indeed very clever!