Introduction: There are more and more delivery methods nowadays, including natural delivery, caesarean section, water delivery, painless delivery, etc. However, most people still choose natural delivery, so mothers have many choices of delivery methods, and there are Painless delivery, why do mothers still prefer natural delivery?
Advantages of natural childbirth:
1. Postpartum recovery is fast. You can get out of bed and walk around on the day of delivery. Generally, you can be discharged from the hospital in 3-5 days, and the cost is relatively small.
2. You can eat it immediately after delivery, and you can breastfeed.
3. Perineal wounds only.
4. Few complications.
5. For babies, start from the birth canal to exercise lung function and stimulate skin nerve endings for massage. The development of the nervous and sensory systems is better, and the development of the whole body functions is also better.
6. The abdomen recovers quickly and can quickly return to its original flatness.
However, while natural childbirth is great, it also has its drawbacks. Disadvantages of natural childbirth:
1. Prepartum labor pains, but painless delivery can avoid labor pains.
2. Sudden situations during vaginal delivery.
3. Vaginal relaxation can be avoided through postpartum exercise.
4. Sequelae of pelvic uterine bladder prolapse.
5. The postpartum vagina will damage the perineal tissue and even cause infection or vulvar hematoma.
6. Postpartum hemorrhage may occur due to poor uterine contraction. If postpartum bleeding cannot be controlled, emergency laparotomy is required. Severe cases require hysterectomy, which can even be life-threatening.
7. Postpartum infection or puerperal fever; especially those with early water rupture and prolonged labor.
8. Rapid labor (labor lasting less than two hours) can occur. Especially multiparous women and patients with cervical laxity.
9. If the fetus is difficult to deliver or the mother is exhausted and requires forceps or negative pressure to assist in delivery, it will cause swelling of the fetal head.
11. Meconium is produced in the amniotic fluid, causing neonatal meconium aspiration syndrome. 12. Amniotic fluid embolism occurs without warning. Even a caesarean section cannot be avoided.