Today’s article comes from a mother who is pregnant with a second child and shares her experience of painless childbirth during her first childbirth. Asked about the choice of the mode of delivery for the second child, the mother said that if she could not bear the pain, she would still choose painless childbirth.
This mother, who once wanted a Caesarean section, finally chose painless childbirth due to various practical reasons. If you are also struggling between choosing a Caesarean section or a natural delivery, this mother’s mental process may provide you with some new ideas.
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Over the years, As for production, whether it is smooth or not, whether it is painless or not, there has never been any quarrel. I respect everyone’s free will, because only I know that what is the most suitable for me. Sharing this article, I just think that if you are facing the same doubts and hesitations as I used to, then I hope my story can give you some reference.
As for painless childbirth, Wikipedia’s explanation is as follows-
Epidura (epidural anesthesia/epidural anesthesia) is a kind of local anesthesia. The drug is injected into the epidural space through a catheter. The injection blocks the transmission of information by nearby spinal cord nerves, thus causing loss of sensation (anesthesia) or only loss of pain (analgesia).
The human body’s [epidural space] is part of the spine. The epidural space is located in the bony spinal canal, outside the dura mater. Inside the dura mater is the arachnoid. Arachnoid envelops cerebrospinal fluid, which surrounds the spinal cord.
Spinal anesthesia is another different local anesthesia method, in which anesthetics are injected directly into cerebrospinal fluid. This method is similar to epidural anesthesia, but the two are different, but sometimes it is used together.
Epidural analgesia is a common analgesic method during childbirth. Epidural analgesic drugs used during natural childbirth generally only eliminate pain, but are not sufficient to reduce muscle strength. However, under the guidance of doctors, exertion (when the uterus contracts) will not affect the progress of delivery due to loss of feeling. Nor is it enough to perform surgery.
Since it is a mental journey, let’s talk about my mental journey first.
Domestic Can’t Direct Caesarean Section Choose to Go Abroad
I am a person who is very afraid of pain!
As for children, they are not particularly maternal love. They are basically in a state of giving birth if their families must give birth. Based on this standpoint, I am really very afraid of the legendary pains.
The fear reached what’s level?
In the two years from marriage to the decision to give birth to a baby, except for checking information on the Internet, all my friends and colleagues (about 40 people as soon as possible) who had given birth to a child were asked the same question by me:
[Shun or Can? Does it hurt? ]
Then I concluded that these opinions are basically divided into four groups, with a ratio of about 1: 1: 1: 1
1. The pain is simply not human, but there is no way but to endure it.
2. Due to various reasons, the process is painful to look back on.
3. It hurts! If I had known it would hurt so much, I would have chosen an autopsy.
4. I firmly chose Caesarean section from the beginning.
To sum up,… no matter what… it is a pain that is not borne by human beings.
So at that time, I resolutely chose Caesarean section (at that time, I was ignorant and did not know that there was painless childbirth in the world).
Then there was a bigger problem. My husband and I were both from Shanghai. According to all the people we knew in the Shanghai medical system at that time, caesarean section was generally not allowed without special reasons.
Knowing this fact, our husband and wife also tried to think of some ways to save the nation by curve, but to no avail.
Before the pain intensified, I naively thought I could give birth smoothly.
Under such a tangled situation, my husband decided to work in Singapore.
As soon as I search, Singapore can have a caesarean section. So he packed his luggage decisively and ran to Singapore with his husband without hesitation.
Then, on a certain day in a certain year, a certain month and a certain day, I was pregnant and expecting to give birth smoothly. When I got up early in the morning to go to the toilet, I was suspected to have broken the water. I immediately woke up my father who was halfway asleep and called my obstetrician and gynecologist.
I must thank my obstetrician WK TAN, who is said to be the most popular doctor in the area and a very amiable old lady. The only thing everyone worries about is whether she will retire when I have another baby. Now she is still the doctor who has my second child and will accompany me for another 10 months! Thanksgiving!
Back when I called, the old lady may have been through many battles and told me calmly on the phone, then you have prepared something and come over. Let’s see if I’m going to have a baby… she also reminded me that I can take a bath first, so I calmly went to take a bath…
In the taxi, I began to feel a faint pain, a bit like a slight dysmenorrhea.
At this time, I had already been opened to the new world and knew that there was a high-grade product of painless childbirth in the world… so I joked with my husband that if I could stand the pain, there would be no need to play painless! Only later did I realize that I was really naive at that time.
9:10 am
We got to the hospital.
As soon as the old lady checked, she said that my uterine opening had been opened by 1 cm, so she could ask her father to go through the formalities. She should give birth almost from evening to evening.
Then the old lady asked me, Have you had breakfast? I said no. So she said, then I’ll ask them to help you prepare breakfast. Do you want porridge or sandwiches? At this time, I was completely at a loss… I ordered a sandwich conveniently… then I couldn’t look back…
First, the nurse’s sister came over, took a shaving knife and said she would help me shave the hair off [there] (Shame MAX). Then she gave me something similar to Kaiselu, said she would help me squeeze into [the back] and soon want to defecate, and told me to clean it up (legendary enema? ! ),
After everything was done, I changed into a hospital gown.
At this moment, I still have the strength to take a photo with my husband.
Then the nurse’s sister helped me install the baby’s fetal heart monitoring and uterine contraction measuring instrument on my stomach. The left side is the fetal heart and the right side is the uterine contraction.
After the labor pains intensified, he immediately counselled and resolutely chose [painless]
At this time the pains began to worsen.
My husband and I began to study the instrument for measuring uterine contraction. At first, it was 20 in normal condition, and then we jumped to 30 ~ 50 when we felt pain. Gradually it becomes 40 ~ 50 in the normal state, and it will jump to 70 when uterine contraction occurs.
At this time, I couldn’t hold on. I couldn’t remember my grandiloquence 2 hours ago.
Many people have described labor pains as what’s feeling. Let me describe what it is like…
When it hurts, your chest below and above your knees are all sour and numb. If you want to imagine, it is probably the normal dysmenorrhea multiplied by 10,000.
The most terrible thing is, At first, without contractions, You can rest, that is, you can rest for a while when the most painful one has passed. But as the pain accumulates, you will always be in the process of very painful, very painful-severe pain, and then there will not be a minute after that that makes you feel [I can rest and rest]. Yes, at this time, the uterine contraction instrument data will slowly become 70 ~ 90.
11:00 am
The doctor came to check the situation and said that I had only opened 2 cm! I’m dying of pain. It’s only 1 cm more?
I resolutely asked the old lady, I want to play painless!
The old lady looked calm: OK, then I’ll call the anesthesiologist to come over. Then he walked away wobbly… … …
So the nurse sister came again and gave me a list to fill in. It was all a survey of the situation. Did you have a history of allergy, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, smoking or not? After that, she gave me a similar disclaimer and asked me to sign it. She basically told me what risks painless would have.
Finally, the nurse sister told me that the anesthesiologist was on his way. Only then did I know that the anesthesiologist in Singapore did not necessarily have to be resident in a certain hospital… 11: 45 am,
After anesthesia, the pain disappeared and instantly changed back to the fairy.
The anesthesiologist is finally here!
She is a beautiful sister who wears very bright clothes and is about 40 years old.
Ignoring my pale face, she first smiled and asked me a few questions, which were basically the same as the form she had filled in before. Then she put on gloves, invited my father out, told me to sit on the bed and untie my clothes, gave me a pillow, and said, “It’s time to start. You hold the pillow, then people move forward and bow into the shape of shrimps.”
With that, she asked me to demonstrate it first, and then said that we would officially start anesthetic.
As she said, I held the pillow in my arms and listened to her say [OK, I’m hitting it now… you keep this position still…], and then I felt a slight tingling pain on my waist.
Next, my sister did all kinds of fiddling behind me, saying it was to help me fix the position of the needle.
Then a miracle happened! !
The pain that I was not as good as death disappeared at once!
One! Point! Du! No! Pain! Yes!
Can you understand the feeling that life is not as good as death suddenly disappears? In an instant, the whole people felt that there was wood to live! All of a sudden, I have confidence in life again. Coach, I want to play basketball!
Then the anesthetized sister continued to ask-
Are you still in pain?
It doesn’t hurt anymore.
Are you feeling sick? Do you feel nauseous?
I don’t feel anything.
Then, the anesthetized sister took out a large piece of ice from somewhere and said she would test it with me.
She put the ice on my chest first and asked me if I could feel the ice. This position is OK. Then she put it on her lap and asked if it was OK. I don’t feel anything here. She asked me to move my legs again. Can I move? I moved, yes, there was nothing uncomfortable.
After all this was done, she rang the bell to call the nurse.
The nurse came with her father. The anesthetized sister said that she would help me insert the catheter. Then she pushed over a wonderful machine and connected it to my back, which was anesthesia.
Only then did I know that painless did not end with one injection. It was something similar to intravenous drip. The needle on your back was basically similar to infusion.
Then she explained to me and my father:
[To keep lying on your side, the number displayed on the machine now is your dose. When your uterine contraction starts to get more severe, you will feel a little pain again. Then you press this button and add a little dose.
The amount given to you now can last for 7-8 hours, and you should not use it up. If you haven’t used it up yet, you will come back to help you add it (of course, you need to add money).]
In the middle, I asked her if I could turn over. She said that there was no problem. The needle was firmly fixed. Just ask Dad to help when turning over.
Then the anesthetized sister said goodbye to me happily (the following figure is the machine that saved my life)
More than 12 noon
The nurse came to do the painless questionnaire. The questionnaire had two questions. One was when you didn’t play painless, from 1 to 10, how much do you think your pain was? I decided to fill in 10.
The second question is from 1 to 10 after you finish playing. What do you think? I filled in 1.
At this time, I was alive and kicking again. During this period, I also took several photos and sent a circle of friends. My classmates are still sighing that for the first time I saw a pregnant woman in the live delivery process.
15:00 pm
The middle process was basically chatting with my father, watching TV and brushing my cell phone. Dad also once complained: “Well, you see, the current number is 200!” “… Anyway, if you feel a little pain, add the dose until the dose is added little by little, but it always hurts a little…
I did not dare to rush, so I called the nurse.
The nurse asked me what the pain was now. I feel almost 6… she saw the dose and felt very strange, so she said to help me check it out. (Dad will be invited out at this time)
As a result, [Wow, your uterine opening has reached 9 cm, and it should be born soon! No wonder you feel pain when you add it, because the dosage cannot keep up with the speed of opening the uterus.]
Then the nurse called my father in and said that he would inform the doctor that other nurses would push me into the delivery room later.
A face of stupid force, the child was born without land expropriation
15:50 pm
We dizzy into the delivery room.
After the midwife came in, she examined the uterus and said that she could give birth.
The midwife taught me to put my legs on the foot supports on both sides, bend them into an M-shape, then put my hands around my thighs, gave my father a pillow, let him stand behind me, and told us:
[I said now that I will start, counting from 1 to 10, during which my father will push my mother’s back through the pillow and push her forward, while my mother will push hard.] [OK, start now! ]
Then there is counting, hard, this came twice, she checked the following:
[Almost, I’ll call the doctor and repeat the process I just taught later.]
My old lady, the doctor, came and, after repeating the action several times, stopped me. Then I began not to know what I was doing. I looked around and saw that it was a lateral cut. However, because my lower body was completely unconscious, so I had no special feelings and waited in a daze.
After a few minutes, she said that it was OK, and we tried again from 1 to 10 as we did just now. So it was the process of counting, pushing, pushing, repeating two or three times, and the baby was born! !
At this time, my father and I were actually overwhelmed… I didn’t expect such a process at all…
The old lady saw that we were both stupid and reminded us that we could take photos now! So take photos quickly! (This is the only chance to take photos. It is forbidden at other times.)
The following photos are bloody, and those who are not well should enter carefully. Look carefully at this time, the umbilical cord is still connected to the stomach, because what didn’t care much about the angle at which Dad was excited. The photos were also shaking, and he took one at the position where he was standing.
In this way, after taking the photo, the nurse took the father and the baby out. Dad followed to see the baby clean, measure the height and weight what. I stayed in the delivery room and the doctor helped me sew up the side cut wound.
After sewing, the nurse came back with her father and baby. At this time, she needed to let the baby suck my colostrum for 15 minutes on the left and right sides. The doctor told me that it doesn’t matter if there is no milk now. It is mainly to let the baby adapt to drinking milk with her mouth, and let her suck it, which can help me milk early.
After ordering other things, such as how to nurse, the doctor left, leaving only me, my father and the baby to play by themselves.
16:42 pm
The nurse took the baby away for various health examinations and sent it directly back to my ward at night.
In the evening, the anesthesiologist’s sister came again and helped me pull out the painless needle. Let me try to lift my leg and test it with ice. Then she told me that she would come to help me pull out the catheter the next morning. Don’t worry.
Finally! Is all kinds of photos with the baby! !
After that, I also asked the doctor, Is it because I was too painful and nervous, so the opening of the uterus was slow at the beginning? The doctor also told me that this really depends on one’s physical condition and cannot be said to have an impact. However, she also confirmed that it was slow at the beginning and did not expect it to be so fast later. She expected that I might not give birth until evening or evening at the earliest.
The above is the whole process of my painless production in Singapore.
Regarding painless childbirth, you may also want to know what experts say. Clove’s mother invited anesthesiologist Ying Yanlu to answer some small questions about painless childbirth.
Q: Is there any difference between painless childbirth at home and abroad in what?
A: At present, the intervention stage of painless childbirth in most hospitals in China is usually when the uterine opening is as large as 3 cm or 2 fingers. In foreign countries, under the condition of no contraindications, the parturient starts to intervene according to the pain degree of the parturient after regular uterine contraction.
Q: I heard that after anesthesia, my waist will ache. Is it true?
A: False! Because the anesthesia site for painless childbirth is at the waist, many parturients can easily connect [postpartum lumbago] with [waist injection].
In fact, lumbar puncture does cause temporary blunt pain at the puncture point after delivery, but this pain will slowly disappear within 2 weeks after delivery.
However, lumbar soreness for months or even years after delivery may be related to lumbar compression during pregnancy and injury during childbirth.
A 2012 British survey showed that the probability of low back pain was compared between those who chose painless labor and those who chose ordinary natural labor. The results showed that low back pain had nothing to do with labor analgesia.
It is worth noting that even if the parturient does not adopt painless delivery, 40% of the parturient may suffer from postpartum chronic lumbago.
Q: Does anesthetic affect baby’s intelligence, etc.
Answer: No, the concentration of anesthetic required for painless childbirth is 1/10 or less of that required for caesarean section anesthesia. As long as the drug does not stray into blood vessels, the dose to reach the fetus through the placenta is negligible.
Moreover, clinical studies show that painless delivery can significantly reduce the probability of fetal intrauterine hypoxia, and can effectively reduce the incidence of fetal acidosis caused by parturient respiratory disorder caused by pain.
Therefore, painless childbirth is only good and not bad for the baby.
Q: Is painless childbirth dangerous?
A: painless childbirth is a kind of intraspinal anesthesia and is a very mature anesthesia operation. However, any medical operation is bound to have risks, but the incidence of complications of painless childbirth is only 1/3 of that of cesarean section anesthesia.
Rational drug use can largely avoid skeletal muscle and motor nerve damage, help expectant mothers to exert themselves correctly, and relieve burnout and anxiety caused by pain. In contrast, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.