Childbirth is considered to be one of the most painful human experiences.
For most women who have not yet given birth to a child, the first word that comes to mind when it comes to natural childbirth is [pain]. Coupled with the rendering of various movies and TV plays and the description of past people, giving birth to a child has become a jaws of death.
Although terrible, natural childbirth is of great benefit to the recovery and subsequent childbirth of the parturient. Most expectant mothers who meet the conditions will decide to welcome natural childbirth in uneasiness and uneasiness.
In fact, making preparations and countermeasures in advance is very helpful to reduce the pain during childbirth.
Preparation before and during pregnancy
Regular and reasonable exercise
It is best to form the habit of regular exercise before pregnancy. After pregnancy, with the permission of obstetricians, appropriate exercise should also be carried out to help strengthen physical strength.
Delivery is a physical activity. Many people are exhausted when they arrive in the delivery room. If their physical strength and endurance are good, the delivery process will be less painful.
Weight control
During pregnancy, reasonable nutrition should also be required, so as not to eat too much and eat too much, so as to avoid the fetus being too large, which can reduce the difficulty of delivery to a certain extent.
Learn the Ramadze method
Lamaze method is the most widely used method in the United States. At present, many hospitals in China also have related courses in their prenatal training classes. It is somewhat similar to yoga, Pilates, etc. It emphasizes physical and mental training and advocates that childbirth is a normal, natural and healthy process and should not be feared.
The main content of the course is to relax and divert attention through breathing during pain, so as to relieve pain.
For example:
When you feel uterine contraction, don’t be nervous, first take a long breath and a long breath; Then count the beats of [1, 2, 3, 4], slowly inhale through your nose, and then slowly exhale through your mouth.
When uterine contraction stops, normal breathing will resume. During the intermission of uterine contraction, the whole body relaxes, relaxes, and relaxes again.
In addition to respiratory control, Ramaze also includes psychological adjustment, environmental coordination, prenatal gymnastics, etc. It is a complete training course.
Mothers-to-be can take relevant courses during pregnancy according to their own conditions to help them meet natural childbirth.
Mode of delivery
Water delivery
Some articles say that giving birth in water can relax the muscles of the pelvic floor and legs of expectant mothers, shorten the delivery time and relieve the pain of delivery.
However, the safety of water delivery has not been confirmed at present, and this method has not been widely popularized in our country.
Painless childbirth
Painless childbirth does not completely eliminate the pain, allowing the parturient to give birth to the baby unconsciously, but to relieve part of the pain through drugs, more accurately referred to as [labor analgesia].
Generally speaking, as long as it can relieve about 70% of the pain, it is already very ideal.
At present, the most commonly used [painless childbirth] method is epidural block. It is through the local application of anesthetic, not allowing the sensory nerves on the stomach to transmit pain signals to the brain, to achieve the purpose of relieving pain.
This method can keep the parturient awake all the time. It blocks only local sensory nerves and does not affect uterine contraction or abdominal muscle strength. It can enable the parturient to continuously actively cooperate with uterine contraction force and does not affect delivery time under the condition of awake.
Moreover, due to local anesthesia, the amount of anesthetic entering the blood is very small and will not affect the fetus.
At present, the safety and effectiveness of painless childbirth have been confirmed, but in our country, due to the shortage of doctors’ resources, it is better to plan ahead and make an appointment with an anesthesiologist if you want painless childbirth.
Natural labor is not so terrible,
Therefore, there are so many ways to help expectant mothers through this stage, so many [predecessors] have come here, and it is not so terrible to think about it.
In addition to the above, the psychological preparation of expectant mothers is more important.
Don’t watch the screaming scenes of giving birth in TV plays any more, and don’t listen to the thrilling descriptions of all kinds of people who have come before, so as to frighten yourself.
Don’t treat childbirth as a “death jaws” and wait uneasily and uneasy. Think of it as a natural physiological process, a unique life experience, and welcome it with good hope.