Many people lack understanding of the process of childbirth and find it difficult to imagine how such a large baby is born. Some rumors even exaggerate the pain of childbirth, which makes many women even more afraid of childbirth.
Of course, labor is when the birth canal is stretched to allow the baby to pass through, so pain is inevitable. But the pain varies from person to person. Some people don\’t find it painful, and the differences are everywhere. Childbirth should never be viewed as unbearable pain.
Childbirth pain is a natural phenomenon and is essentially different from injury pain.
The feeling of pain is the function of the central nervous system of the cerebral cortex. If you feel uneasy, the central nervous system will have a very sensitive reaction and the pain will be more severe. Many pregnant women feel uneasy and full of fear when they think that they are about to give birth.
Therefore, you must eliminate the psychological barriers of fear and anxiety about childbirth from your mind and maintain a peaceful mood, so that childbirth will not be too painful.
The more nervous you are, the more painful you will be
For the human body, when the mood is relaxed, the muscles will relax. The more tense the mood, the tighter the muscles will be. As a woman, you will always have to go through this time when you get married and have children. This is a reality that must be faced squarely. During childbirth, the baby comes out of the narrow birth canal. If there is no psychological burden at this time, you can force yourself to calm down and relax your muscles and pelvis, so that the baby can pass smoothly and the delivery will be quick. If the expectant mother is extremely stressed at this time and the psychological burden is too heavy, the muscles will be tense, the birth canal will not be easily opened, and the baby will not come out smoothly. Not only will the pain be more severe, but it will also cause difficult labor, delayed delivery, and more seriously, postpartum hemorrhage may occur. Even if the baby develops normally and could have been born normally, the birth canal cannot be opened due to tension, causing the baby to suddenly suffocate and die, causing greater pain.
There was once a woman who was very afraid of giving birth and was extremely nervous before giving birth. During the delivery, she yelled and did not follow the midwife\’s instructions. She even cried and started to contaminate the disinfected production area, but the medical staff tried to persuade her to no avail. At the critical moment when the fetal head was delivered, she broke away from the protection of medical staff and forced herself to sit up… Her reckless actions caused a full-term baby boy with normal physical development to suddenly suffocate to death. Not only will the mother bleed severely, but her perineum will be severely torn, and it will also cause infection after delivery, causing even greater pain. Although I regretted it later, it was already irreversible. Originally, the mother\’s fetal position, fetal heart rate, pelvis and other factors are conducive to childbirth. If psychological fears are eliminated and medical staff cooperate closely, delivery can go smoothly.
This example fully proves that many difficult labors, stillbirths, and postpartum hemorrhages, which cause excessive pain to mothers and babies, all have a common reason, which is the pregnant woman\’s own fear of childbirth.
Therefore, the mother\’s mental state before delivery has a great relationship with labor pain. SevereThe pain can be said to be self-inflicted. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the birth process in detail to effectively overcome tokophobia.
Tokophobia not only endangers the life safety of mother and baby, but also has adverse effects on the body of postpartum mothers. In recent years, a kind of postpartum neurosis has appeared, which is the sequelae caused by prenatal psychological fear. In addition, due to extreme nervousness leading to dystocia, the expectant mother\’s uterus will bleed heavily, postpartum recovery will be slower, and various inflammations will occur.
In fact, pregnant women have long known that pregnancy is not a disease and childbirth is not an extremely painful thing. With adequate preparation, most of them can survive the physical pain of childbirth and postpartum. Although the maternal mental state will be affected by various external factors, it is completely controllable and can be continuously adjusted by oneself. In fact, this pain is nothing more than discomfort caused by contractions.
The desire to have a healthy, smart child can sometimes work medical miracles. Many mothers with disabilities (not caused by genetic factors) can overcome their disadvantages and safely give birth to a normal baby. There was a wife whose husband died in the early stages of pregnancy and the fetus was diagnosed with cancer when she was 6 months old. However, she stubbornly hoped to have a child. Maybe the fetus feels the mother’s strong desire and is very cooperative! When it was time to give birth, she indeed gave birth to a normal child.
As can be seen from the above examples, the power generated by human psychology is sometimes very huge and unpredictable.
Mom understands that contractions are a normal part of helping the baby come out. This way you won\’t be afraid of childbirth. In this way, you will not be impatient while waiting for delivery. With a \”take it as it comes\” mentality, you can understand the delivery process in detail in advance and think about all abnormal factors. So how to cooperate with midwives? This mental state can help mothers overcome various discomforts before delivery and recover as soon as possible after delivery. Facts have proven that mothers who are mentally prepared have a much smoother delivery than mothers who are not.