\”It takes ten months to conceive, and one day you give birth to a child.\” Every expectant mother has mixed feelings, from the excitement of welcoming a new life to the fear of the pain of childbirth. Because the traditional concept always regards the birth process as a \”painful and happy\” thing, giving birth has become an unpleasant thing.
Labor pain second only to burning pain
In the medical pain index, labor pain ranks second after burning pain. It should be said that this is the most painful thing that most women will ever experience in their lives. The main factors causing labor pain are: regular contraction of the uterus, elongation or tearing of uterine muscle fibers causing severe pain; pressure on the birth canal when the fetus passes through, especially damage and stretching of the lower uterine segment and cervix; in addition, psychological stress Due to the lack of childbirth experience and the exaggeration of labor pain in various information, expectant mothers are full of fear of childbirth, resulting in muscle tension, causing uterine contractions to intensify, prolong their duration, and aggravate the labor process. pain. Labor pain not only causes expectant mothers to sweat profusely, nausea, and vomiting, prolonging the labor process, but sometimes affects the normal delivery of the baby and even causes suffocation.
Many expectant mothers spend a lot of energy and endure pain due to the long delivery process, which lasts for several hours. As a result, when they finally gave birth, they were not energetic and had to choose a risky caesarean section. Eat twice.
Don’t just choose caesarean section
In February this year, the World Health Organization published a survey report in the authoritative medical journal \”The Lancet\” stating that more than 46% of pregnant women in China choose caesarean section, ranking first in the world in caesarean section rate, and 25% of pregnant women do not need caesarean section at all. For this reason, the World Health Organization warns that unnecessary caesareans can harm women\’s health.
According to experts, many women choose caesarean section because they are afraid of the pain during delivery, but they do not know that women will feel more obvious pain when they wake up after the operation. Although the body is very weak at this time, the mother cannot eat immediately due to the operation, which will make the mother more uncomfortable. Such problems will not occur with natural delivery. In addition, after a caesarean section, the mother\’s body recovery is much slower than that after a vaginal birth, and the pain lasts much longer than the several hours of vaginal birth.
The most critical issue is that caesarean section will leave scars on the uterus, and in the next few decades, once women suffer from other diseases and require surgery, doctors will be faced with a scarred uterus, which will undoubtedly increase the risk of surgery. difficult and brings great trouble to treatment. \”Today\’s women are choosing caesarean sections to relieve pain during childbirth without considering the potential harm in the future.\”
In addition to the impact on the mother, caesarean section also has many harmful effects on the baby. After a normal physiological delivery process, the fetus will be squeezed by the birth canal, and the brain will be stimulated accordingly, which is beneficial to the child\’s future intellectual development. However, babies born by caesarean section lack this important process. Not only that, the mucus and moisture in the airways of naturally born babieswill also be squeezed out. Therefore, the number of neonatal aspiration pneumonia and neonatal wet lungs after birth is relatively reduced. Babies born by caesarean section are prone to these breathing problems and are prone to lung diseases.
Painless delivery requires the cooperation of anesthesiology department
In fact, the medical community has been looking for a way to solve or alleviate the pain of childbirth without affecting the health of mother and baby. As early as the 18th century, foreign countries began to experiment with \”painless childbirth.\” Painless delivery has become quite popular in Western countries, and is also known as \”labor analgesia\” in medicine. This can not only reduce the pain of maternal delivery, but more importantly, it can reduce unnecessary oxygen consumption and energy consumption, prevent maternal and fetal metabolic acidosis, speed up the progress of labor, and reduce postpartum hemorrhage.
Experts say that the latest method is to use combined spinal and epidural block for labor analgesia, because this anesthesia method has quick effects, small dosage, and high safety. Painless delivery requires the cooperation of doctors from multiple disciplines. There must be an anesthesiologist who is proficient in childbirth knowledge and an obstetrician who understands anesthesia. The two require close communication and cooperation.
Experts remind that although painless delivery does not have any adverse effects on the baby, expectant mothers need to bear certain risks. Common complications of euthanasia include low blood pressure and mild headache, but serious life-threatening complications are rare. Common adverse reactions are mainly manifested in the impact on labor and placental blood supply. Therefore, the entire delivery process requires joint monitoring by obstetricians and anesthesiologists.