The medical equipment in ancient times was not as good as nowadays, so they needed hot water to prepare the equipment beforehand. Firstly, high temperature sterilizes; secondly, hot water relieves pain; thirdly, it cleans the fetus.
01. Use hot water to sterilize scissors and whatnot, and wash your hands by the way.
Ancient medical technology was not as good as today's, and there were no special sterilizing supplies or machines and equipment. Therefore, ancient midwives used hot water and wine to sterilize the knives, gauze and the like used for delivering babies, all of which needed to be scalded with hot water or they would not be able to go on.
Similarly, the human body carries a lot of bacteria, and for the sake of maternal safety, midwives also need to wash their hands in hot water to prevent infection.
02. Hot water relieves the pain and also helps to clean up the mother's body for the midwife's observation.
Just as the girls come to the physiological period, with hot water will be less painful, the birth of a child also hurts, but can not directly put hot towels on the stomach, so there will be people specifically take hot towels to the mother to wipe their bodies, so that they relieve the pain and restore their strength.
Ancient times did not have such sophisticated together now, all the movement all rely on a pair of eyes of the midwife, so also need hot water to clean up the lower body of the mother, to prevent blood stains affecting the midwife's line of sight. This is also why, those in the TV series have children, a pot of blood and water to the outside end of the pot of blood and water.
After all, heat expansion and cold contraction, right, the birth of a child would have needed to open the mouth of the uterus, in case the use of cold water, stimulate the mother, the child came out of the channel contraction, it is not difficult to birth! The water can be boiled at any temperature you want, and then mixed with cold water.
03. After the birth of the fetus, it is good to clean up the child, so as not to be dirty.
After the fetus is born, it is also covered in blood, blood, poop, and everything, so it has to be washed before it can be wrapped into a small quilt!
The child was just born, the body has a weak, resistance and bad, with cold water, if you are not careful, the child will be frozen sick. In ancient times, the level of medical care, maybe the child was born within a few days after the death of the child.
So ah, with warm water to wipe the child clean, in the process of labor can also give maternal sweat, raw cool air into the body, give birth to a child's life is almost gone.
Originally, the birth of a child is to run a lap on the ghost gate, the production process and the need to use water, so it will be in the production of people before the burning of hot water, to prevent the water drop, has been to maintain a temperature, but also to let the temperature of the delivery room is appropriate, to prevent the mother in the birth of a child, the cool air into the body.