Underwater birthing is still relatively new to domestic moms, but it has become the preferred choice of many foreign moms during childbirth. Giving birth underwater? It sounds like a great idea, but it's impossible to imagine how it works. Today we will learn the benefits of underwater labor.
Relief of pain and lying on the cold labor bed, pregnant mothers half lying in the bathtub, flowing water can help pregnant mothers choose the most comfortable position, but also relax the mother's mood, but also save the mother's physical strength; water birth to shorten the time of labor and reduce maternal pain. The pros and cons of "underwater delivery", will you accept this mode of delivery? Avoid surgery and vaginal delivery, underwater delivery is also a natural childbirth, can greatly reduce the drug intervention, and reduce the probability of side incision and cesarean section.
Fetal babies live in amniotic fluid, before the birth of the mother in the production of water, the liquid environment allows the baby to discharge less resistance, the baby out of the baby can adapt to the state-of-the-art liquid environment, than from the liquid suddenly into the air environment more adapted to the environment, of course, the baby was born in the water can not stay in the time of more than a minute. Experts consider babies born underwater to be healthy. On the face of it, the benefits of underwater birth are impressive, but there is much controversy about the safety of the method.
The water used for underwater births must be sterilized, but during the delivery process, bacteria from the pregnant woman's feces or health care workers entering the water can lead to infections; the safety of the fetus. Although it has already been mentioned that fetuses are more easily adapted to be born underwater, the fetal heartbeat is also easily detected due to the inability to connect equipment in an underwater environment. Therefore, in the event of an emergency, it may not be detected at the first time the average mother is difficult to fully meet the conditions. Hope to realize the underwater birth mother early need to detect, corresponding to underwater can choose to be born, the probability of passing is not high, about only one, so the general hospital medical equipment is generally not considered the use of very low frequency, if high-end hospitals, the price is also.