Regarding the birth process, expectant mothers must have done enough homework before giving birth, but when the moment of actual delivery arrives, everything in the delivery room still feels strange to them. The following ten questions and answers will help you unlock the secrets of the delivery room.
1. What should I do if the delivery room is overcrowded?
In such emergencies, professional hospitals have the ability to quickly transform the waiting room or general ward into a delivery room. The delivery bed, fetal heart rate monitoring equipment, and instruments required for delivery will be quickly prepared. Of course, such an accident is almost impossible to happen.
Another situation is that the delivery room is available, but the doctors and midwives are busy. For example, when an expectant mother has a difficult delivery, the situation is very complicated. In this extremely special and rare situation, the hospital will quickly send other pregnant women who are about to give birth to other hospitals or request support from doctors in other hospitals.
2. What can I bring with me when I go to the production?
It depends on the hospital situation. If you are in the foreign ward of a tertiary hospital or the maternity ward of a foreign-funded hospital, you can bring anything that makes you feel comfortable, such as soft pillows, the perfume you often use, and your favorite music (first make sure the hospital has a CD player , you can also bring an MP3 player). Some couples also like to bring a soft towel to wrap their newborn. However, if you are in an ordinary delivery room of a public hospital, you can generally bring convenient food, such as chocolate, but you cannot bring food that requires peeling. You can bring your favorite tapes or CDs (depending on the delivery room equipment). Some hospitals also allow fathers to carry a camera or video recorder with them during delivery. In short, if you want to bring something into the delivery room, it is best to communicate with the doctor in advance.
3. Do I have to wear the fetal heart rate monitor all the time?
When the baby in the belly is normal, there is no need to carry a fetal heart rate monitor all the time. You only need to check the baby\’s heart sound every half hour or an hour. But if your baby\’s heart sounds are irregular, it\’s a good idea to always wear a fetal heart rate scanner, just in case. Of course, that doesn\’t mean you have to be \”tangled\” in a belt all the time, as there are also wireless fetal heart rate scanners that send signals via radio waves. The soft tissues of the pelvic and vaginal walls are squeezed, and the fetal heart rate changes greatly. It is necessary to listen to the fetal heart rate every 5 minutes. Most eligible mothers continue to have electronic fetal heart rate monitoring during the second stage of labor.
4. What if I don’t like my midwife?
Then you can ask the hospital if there are other midwives who can care for you. It may be inconvenient to tell you directly, so you can ask a teacher or other relative to speak for you. However, you must also remember that many times first impressions are wrong and it may be that this midwife is the best for you. Claudia Falconer, an experienced midwife in Hamburg, said that people should not judge a midwife by the standard of a good friend, but by whether she can comfort you and provide effective help during labor.
5. You can drink water and eat during deliveryWest?
Small sips of water or beverages are allowed. During normal delivery, you should eat normally, or even eat more than usual, because the mother consumes a huge amount of energy during the entire delivery process, which is equivalent to a person running a 10,000-meter marathon. However, the pain of uterine contractions and the compression of the gastrointestinal tract by the enlarging uterus will affect the mother\’s food intake, so it is best to eat smaller meals more frequently. However, if the baby in your belly is not very \”obedient\”, the midwife will advise you not to eat temporarily, otherwise it will put a burden on the stomach, because in this case, a caesarean section may be required, and the best anesthesia is when the stomach is not full, otherwise It is easy to vomit and cause suffocation.
6. Can a caesarean section be decided temporarily during delivery?
In theory it is possible. But experience tells us that when labor starts going well, few mothers-to-be change their minds about having a C-section. Because labor pains gradually become more severe, expectant mothers have a process of adaptation. When the pain is too severe, epidural anesthesia and other techniques can be used to effectively relieve labor pain and promote smooth delivery of the baby. A C-section also involves pain and scarring from the surgical wound. Therefore, if the expectant mother can give birth smoothly, she will usually persist to the end.
In addition, if the fetus has entered the birth canal, the cervix has been completely dilated, and has entered the second stage of labor, there is no way to perform a cesarean section. Even if the expectant mother regrets, she can only persevere to the end.
7. How long can the baby stay in the delivery room after birth?
About two hours. After the baby is born safely, the doctor will confirm that everything is normal, place the baby on the mother, and then start to do some follow-up work on the mother, such as observing postpartum bleeding, suturing vaginal tears or side incisions. This process takes approximately two hours. When the doctor thinks you have safely passed the fourth stage of labor, you will be transferred to a general ward to rest.
8. What should I do after entering the delivery room?
The \”delivery room\” is not much different from other rooms in the hospital, so don\’t be nervous. When you enter the delivery room, the midwife will ask you how you are feeling, then check your baby\’s position, and then check your uterus to see how dilated it is. Finally, she listens to the baby\’s heart sounds.
If you wish, and the hospital allows it, you can also have your teacher stay with you at all times. The entire exam process was relaxed and peaceful. Sometimes it may be necessary to check the degree of blood clotting. This data is only used if a caesarean section is required during labor.
If your labor pains are severe, your cervix is fully dilated, and you are in the second stage of labor, you will be immediately sent to a regular delivery room to wait for delivery.
9. If you feel tired, can you stop and take a rest?
It should be determined according to the progress of labor. If the cervix has not been fully dilated, the expectant mother can take a temporary rest through epidural anesthesia, analgesia and other methods. Labor pauses are also used when doctors notice that a baby\’s heart sounds are becoming abnormal during labor to give the baby a chance to rest and recover. whenOf course, the natural process of labor is disrupted, so midwives and doctors will carefully consider whether labor is necessary before interrupting and then know what you should do, so don\’t worry.
When the labor pains hit one after another, leaving the expectant mother with almost no chance to breathe, many expectant mothers hope to take a break, but at this time, the delivery cannot be paused because the baby will be born soon – the fetus
I am using all my strength to get out of my mother\’s birth canal. Therefore, for the exhausted mother, we must encourage her more and give her a promise – the baby is coming!
10. I heard that a husband fainted in the delivery room while he was giving birth. Is this true?
This is less common. If it happened, it wasn\’t because he fainted at the sight of blood, but because he was too busy and nervous at the beginning of labor. But don\’t worry, the midwife is very experienced in this and will notice something is wrong with the father-to-be and suggest that he calm down, get a snack or take a break.
If the expectant father has been attending maternity school with the expectant mother a few months before giving birth to learn about childbirth and master related skills, he will not be so nervous.