Having children has always been a painful and happy experience for women. Many times, in the face of childbirth, it is often not the length of the birth that crushes the mother, but the desperate pain of labor. How painful is it to have a baby?
Clinically, the pain level is usually graded according to 0 to 10 points
0 points are painless;
0-3 divided into mild pain;
4-6 divided into moderate pain;
7-10 divided into severe pain;
The index of labor pain reaches 9.7-9.8!
Throughout childbirth, the woman needs to endure such pain for up to several hours.
"Painless childbirth," also known as "labor analgesia," is a mature, safe, and traumatic anesthesia technique. More and more mothers are beginning to understand painless childbirth and choose to use labor analgesia during childbirth.
What is painless childbirth?
It is in the process of giving birth, before the pain tears your heart and lungs, so that you can quickly relieve the pain! To be precise, it should be called labor analgesia!
Painless childbirth can make expectant mothers no longer experience the torture of labor pain, reduce the tension, fear and postpartum tiredness during childbirth, and allow expectant mothers to rest and accumulate physical strength. When the uterine opening is complete, there is enough strength to complete the production. At present, the analgesia of childbirth in The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Xindu District of Chengdu mainly uses epidural delivery analgesia.
Is a painless birth really painless?
Painless childbirth does not make it completely painless. Painless childbirth is medically known as "labor analgesia", and its purpose is to effectively relieve labor pain, not to make it disappear.
At present, the most used method is epidural analgesia, because each person has a different degree of tolerance for pain, and it is not necessarily painful to feel at all during use. But it is undeniable that painless childbirth can help women relieve the pain of childbirth to a large extent during the actual delivery process.
Most women can sleep and rest after giving birth painlessly, replenish their physical strength, listen to music, adjust their mood, and then quietly wait for the uterine opening to be complete, and it is not comfortable to listen. A mother who has used painless childbirth said: "When the child is opened to two fingers, it hurts to stand on the wall, and after the painless delivery injection is suddenly relaxed, this thousand or so cost is simply worth it." ”
Who are the right people to get painless delivery injections?
Painless childbirth is unlikely to be suitable for pregnant women of all constitutions, so pregnant women who intend to use this technique need to be examined and evaluated by obstetricians and anesthesiologists before planning to use this technique, and the doctor decides whether it is suitable for painless delivery.
Delivery analgesia cannot be performed if the pregnant mother is allergic to local anesthetics or opioids or if there are contraindications to spinal block, such as coagulation dysfunction, infection or injury at the site of puncture, uncorrected maternal hypovolemia or hypotension, increased intracranial pressure, and severe spinal deformities. However, you can choose to doula analgesia and other methods.
Do you have these misconceptions about analgesia in childbirth?
Myth 1: It has an effect on the fetus
Labor analgesia can accurately reduce pain, relatively easy and comfortable to pass through normal labor, analgesia, drugs are safe for women and fetuses. The amount of medicine injected into the spinal canal is very small, and even less can be transmitted to the baby.
Myth 2: There is no pain at all after use
Everyone's sensitivity to anesthesia is different, and the painless effect will be different, some women will still have pain of about 2 to 3 degrees; some women who are more sensitive to anesthesia will hardly feel pain throughout the entire labor process.
Myth 3: Prolonging labor
Anesthesia prolonged labour has been clinically validated in a variety of clinical trials to prove that analgesic delivery has almost no effect on labour. Conversely, excessive pain during childbirth can lead to acidosis or hypoxemia in your baby.
Myth 4: Postpartum low back pain
Postpartum low back pain is more caused by endocrine changes during pregnancy and postpartum, lax pelvic ligaments, uterine reduction, weight gain during pregnancy, increased waist burden, calcium deficiency during pregnancy and childbirth, incorrect postpartum baby holding posture and so on. In general, patients will have some local dull pain at the puncture point, such as the eye of a venous needle. Under the skillful operation of the general anesthesiologist, it will not cause back pain.
In the name of love, happy childbirth
I wish the mothers can greet the baby more easily and happily...
The Department of Anesthesiology of Chengdu Xindu District Maternal and Child Health Hospital focuses on the direction of obstetrics and gynecology anesthesia, has rich case experience, and can formulate personalized plans according to the different physiques of each pregnant mother, and improve the risk plan to ensure the safety of mothers and babies.
Source: Xindu District Maternal and Child Health Hospital
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