Reasons for different manifestations of maternal labor pains
The first is the lack of scientific understanding of the childbirth process. At the end of pregnancy, estrogen levels in women increase and progesterone levels decrease relatively. Estrogen can increase the sensitivity of uterine muscles to substances that stimulate uterine contractions such as oxytocin. Together with the increase in local intrauterine pressure, it promotes strong uterine contractions.
Followed by factors of fear and pain sensitivity. The mother’s fear is also due to her lack of understanding of the childbirth process. She only heard hearsay that giving birth was painful or even painful, so she was extremely afraid of giving birth. There are also some women who are usually very sensitive to pain. They believe in the superficial descriptions of some multiparous women and imagine how painful it is during childbirth, which inevitably causes a lot of psychological pressure. And such a mentality will inevitably aggravate the pain during childbirth.
In fact, childbirth is just a physiological process. When pregnant women give birth, the number of nerve sensory fibers that control the uterus in the body is very small, and they generally do not feel strong pain. Objectively speaking, childbirth is painful because during childbirth, certain tissues and organs near the uterus will be involved, causing local pain. Manual workers usually have a lot of activity, and their delivery is relatively smooth, and their pain is reduced accordingly. Mental workers or pregnant women with little activity often experience increased pain due to extreme tension and fear.
From this perspective, the pain of childbirth varies from person to person. But the mother\’s pain during childbirth is very beneficial to the baby.
Benefits of pain for mothers during childbirth
Some mothers and family members mistakenly believe that cesarean section can avoid pain, will not change the body shape, and can ensure the safety of the baby, and that babies born by cesarean section are very smart, etc., so they blindly pursue cesarean section. This is mainly due to the lack of correct understanding of normal delivery. understanding. In fact, the pain of childbirth is better for mother and baby
The contraction of the uterus during childbirth can exercise the fetal lungs, increase surfactant, and make the alveoli easy to expand, which is less likely to cause respiratory diseases after birth.
The contraction of the uterus and the squeezing of the birth canal cause the amniotic fluid and mucus in the fetal respiratory tract to be discharged from the body, greatly reducing the incidence of neonatal asphyxia and neonatal pneumonia.
When the baby passes through the birth canal, the fetal head is squeezed and the head is congested, which can increase the excitability of the respiratory center of the brain and help the newborn quickly establish normal breathing after birth.
The pain of childbirth causes the lower segment of the uterus to become thinner, the upper segment to become thicker, the cervix to expand, and postpartum uterine contractions to become stronger, which is conducive to the discharge of lochia and the recovery of the uterus.
Immunoglobulin G (IgG) can be passed from mother to fetus during natural delivery, and newborns born naturally have stronger resistance.
In the birth canal, the fetus\’ sense of touch, taste, pain and self-feeling are exercised, which promotes the development of brain and vestibular functions and is beneficial to future movement and personality development.
Vaginal delivery is normalThere is no birth without pain. This exact number, which is both true and false, scares many women. However, every expectant mother’s labor process is different, and her physical and mental conditions will affect the intensity and duration of labor pains.
Why does it hurt during childbirth?
1. The baby’s life in the mother’s belly is like being in a bag. There is a tight cord at the mouth of the bag. The tight cord is the mother\’s cervix. The cervix and long vagina are made of tough connective tissue and muscles, and these organs are usually closed to prevent the baby from slipping out of the pocket during pregnancy. As pregnancy comes to an end, these hard connective tissues and muscles begin to relax and soften under the action of labor hormones, which helps the soft birth canal expand during delivery and allow the baby to pass smoothly.
The process of childbirth, to put it bluntly, is the process of squeezing the baby out of the mother\’s uterus and reproductive tract.
However, without the force to push the baby forward during labor, delivery cannot occur. This driving force is mainly the contraction force (pain) of the mother\’s uterus.
Uterine contractions serve two purposes:
A. Promote the opening of the cervix. When the cervix is opened, the baby still needs to hold it with his own head to hold it open enough for the baby\’s head and body to pass through. This arduous task cannot be completed by the baby alone, but can only be completed with the help of the mother\’s pain.
The pain a mother feels during childbirth is caused by the contraction of the mother\’s uterus, and the contractions of the uterus help the baby expand the birth canal and push the baby forward. Without uterine contractions, the baby cannot expand the birth canal.
b. Once the door of the birth canal is opened, uterine contractions will prompt the baby to come to the world as soon as possible. Therefore, the mother\’s pain is necessary.
2. The baby can only be reborn through the mother\’s birth canal, because the mother\’s birth canal is not smooth and straight, but a slightly upward curved tunnel that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. This tunnel also has several levels.
The average width between the two roadblocks in the middle is only about 10 centimeters, which is the only way for babies to pass. Because the birth canal is curved and narrow, when the baby passes through the birth canal, it needs to make a series of movements to reduce the diameter of the head and allow the body to adapt to the shape and size of the birth canal that it can pass through. This series of movements is what is mentioned in the delivery machine: jointing, descent, flexion, internal rotation, protrusion and bulging, supine extension, reduction, external rotation, and delivery.
However, the completion of this series of actions is not completed by the baby actively. The baby does not need to make any movements or efforts to pass through an obstacle in the mother\’s birth canal. The team worked together to solve it.
If the position cannot be changed in time, the baby will get stuck here, and staying here for a long time will threaten the baby\’s life. The timely change of the baby\’s position requires strong pushing force, and this pushing force is the contraction force of the mother\’s uterus. Without the mother\’s pain during childbirth, it would be impossible to give birth to a lovely babyThe baby, so the mother\’s pain is also essential.
3. The most important thing is that after normal delivery, the baby’s head will be squeezed by the birth canal and elongated and deformed. But this kind of squeezing is to prepare the baby for the transition from \”water life\” to \”land life\”, which is very beneficial for the baby to live independently from the mother\’s body. Because the rhythmic contraction of the uterus will cause the baby\’s chest to compress and expand accordingly, it is this rhythmic contraction and contraction movement that can stimulate the baby\’s alveolar surfactant (phospholipids) to accelerate the production. After the baby is born, the alveoli are Elastic and easily scalable.
Uterine contractions repeatedly squeeze the baby\’s chest, which facilitates alveolar fluid and suction.
Water squeezed out. With the long cry of the baby\’s birth, the alveoli open, and independent breathing begins. This prevents neonatal death from pulmonary hyaline membrane lesions caused by lack of surfactant in the alveoli. The compression of the baby\’s head by the birth canal can also stimulate the release of cerebrolysin, which is beneficial to the baby\’s intellectual development. Therefore, the mother\’s pain brings benefits to the baby that cannot be achieved by cesarean section.
Uterine contractility plays two roles:
A. Prompting the cervix to open, the opening of the cervix requires the baby to push it hard with his own head to stretch it large enough to allow his head and body to pass through. This difficult task cannot be accomplished by the baby alone. It can only be completed with the help of the mother\’s pain.
The pain a mother feels during childbirth is caused by the contraction of the mother\’s uterus, and the contraction of the uterus is to help the baby expand the birth canal and push the baby forward. Without the contraction of the uterus, the baby cannot expand the birth canal.
B. Once the door of the birth canal is opened, uterine contractions will prompt the baby to be delivered to the world as soon as possible. Therefore, the mother\’s pain is necessary.
2. The baby can only be reborn through the mother\’s birth canal, because the mother\’s birth canal is not smooth and straight, but a curved tunnel that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and is slightly upturned. There are also several levels in this tunnel.
The average width between the two roadblocks is only about 10 centimeters, which is the only way for the baby to pass. Due to the curvature and narrowness of the birth canal, when the baby passes through the tunnel, he must make a series of movements in order to reduce the diameter of his head and allow his body to adapt to the shape and size of the tunnel before he can pass through. This series of movements is what is referred to in the delivery machine: connection, descent, flexion, internal rotation, exposure and crowning, extension, reduction, external rotation, and delivery.
However, the completion of this series of actions is not done by the baby himself. The baby does not need to make any movements or efforts when passing through a certain roadblock in the mother\’s birth canal. Everything is done by the mother\’s uterine contraction. The combined force of the reaction force generated by the mother\’s birth canal took care of it.
If the position cannot be changed in time, the baby will get stuck here, and staying here for a long time will threaten the baby\’s life. baby poseThe timely change of potential requires a strong push to complete, and this push is the mother\’s uterine contraction force. Without the mother\’s pain during childbirth, a lovely baby would not be born, so the mother\’s pain is also necessary.
3. The most important thing is that after a baby is delivered vaginally, his head must be squeezed by the birth canal and elongated and deformed. But this squeeze is preparation for the baby\’s transition from water life to land life. It is very beneficial for the baby to live independently from the mother\’s body. Because the rhythmic contraction of the uterus can cause the baby\’s chest to be compressed and expanded accordingly, it is this rhythmic contraction and contraction movement that can stimulate the baby\’s alveolar surfactant (phospholipids) to accelerate the production of this substance. After the baby is born, the alveoli are elastic and easy to expand.
Uterine contractions repeatedly squeeze the baby\’s chest, which is helpful to squeeze out alveolar fluid and inhaled amniotic fluid. With the long cry of the baby\’s birth, the alveoli open, and independent breathing begins. This prevents neonatal death from pulmonary hyaline membrane lesions caused by lack of surfactant in the alveoli. The compression of the baby\’s head by the birth canal can also stimulate the release of cerebrolysin, which is beneficial to the baby\’s intellectual development. Therefore, the mother\’s pain brings benefits to the baby that cannot be achieved by cesarean section.
Why does labor pain take so long?
In clinical practice, you can often hear some pregnant mothers say this: If I can’t give birth in X hours, I will have a cesarean section. This shows that these women do not understand the birth process. Due to the toughness and twists of the mother\’s birth canal, it is very difficult for the baby to \”escape\”. The baby needs to change positions with difficulty many times in the mother\’s birth canal before it can slowly crawl out. This process is slow.
It is necessary to give the baby time to slowly adapt to the hard part of the mother\’s bony birth canal. The process of smooth delivery is the process of mutual adaptation of the mother\’s labor force, the birth canal and the diameter of the baby\’s body. Since it takes a certain amount of time to adapt to each other, long-term pain is necessary. Only after long-term pain can the door of the mother\’s birth canal be slowly opened, allowing the baby to pass easily.
Generally speaking, it usually takes 12 hours to 16 hours for the baby of a first-time mother to pass through the mother\’s birth canal, while it only takes 8 hours to 12 hours for a multiparous mother.
If the duration and intensity of the pain are too short or too rapid, it can easily cause severe tearing of the mother’s birth canal, massive bleeding, intracranial hemorrhage and birth trauma of the newborn. If the duration and intensity of the pain are too slow and too weak, it will cause fatigue in the mother. Fatigue will make the labor process too long, increase the rate of instrumental delivery, increase the rate of neonatal asphyxia, and increase the rate of neonatal birth injuries. Therefore, normal delivery cannot be completed in a short time.
Although the distance that the baby needs to travel in the mother\’s body is only about 10 centimeters, every millimeter of progress is accomplished by the mother\’s pain. Therefore, expectant mothers must correctly understand the meaning of pain during childbirth. For the health of the baby, they must not be afraid of pain. Only in this way can they give birth to a smart and healthy baby..