Is it the same for ancient people and modern people to give birth?
Possibly for those of us who are influenced by TV dramas, our consciousness thinks that there is not much difference between giving birth to a child in ancient times and giving birth to a child in our contemporary times. In fact, this point of view is incorrect.
We watch TV dramas, ancient people give birth to children, most of them are like modern people, they lie on the bed, and then she is surrounded by a group of helpers around. In fact, the way these ancient people give birth as portrayed in TV dramas is not correct.
According to relevant historical records, the way ancient women gave birth to their children was mainly in the form of ? vertical childbirth? is the main. And the so-called? The first is the "vertical labor", which is a type of labor that is not easy to understand.
The vertical labor? It's a standing or sitting birth.Maybe according to our contemporary conception of this thing, will think that the ancients are very strange, because standing to give birth to a child in the contemporary sounds, simply a little ridiculous.
But, the ancient people gave birth to children this matter, history is true, because there are many ancient books about ? The vertical birth?
These are the first time in history that a child has been born in the ancient world.
Yang Kanghou wrote in his Treatise on Ten Births:
A child is about to be born, and his mother is tired, and sits on a chair for a long time, resisting the way of his birth.This sentence, which graphically describes the ? Vertical labor? a method of childbirth.
In this quote, ? The long time you sit on a chair and mattress, you will be able to resist the way of birth? is a description of "vertical labor". The vertical birth is a true reflection of the way in which the child is born.
This is the first time I've ever seen a woman in the world who was born with a baby.
And in Chongqing's famous Southern Song Dazu stone carvings, there is a pair of "labor suffering grace" recorded when a woman was in labor.
At that time, the midwife was squatting in front of the pregnant woman to prepare for her delivery, and that pregnant woman was standing at that time.
No coincidence, except in Chinese history, there? vertical birth?
In addition to Chinese history, there are records of vertical births in ancient Egypt. Vertical labor? The first time I've ever seen a woman in a room, I've seen a woman in a room.
In the ancient Egyptian pharaoh's palace, hung with the last queen of the relief, relief images presented, that is, the queen of the Khentian Batra kneeling in labor. At that time, she closed the end and several maids serving, ready for its delivery. This shows that this ? Vertical delivery? , is not unique to our country? Patent? It.
And in one of the four ancient civilizations of ancient Babylon, there are also about? The first time I saw this, I had to go to the hospital to get a doctor's note. The relevant records. And that time pregnant women giving birth, but also equipped with? Special chair for labor and delivery? , for pregnant women to provide labor. From? The birth chair? The record to infer that the way the pregnant woman gave birth to the baby, is sitting in labor.
Of course, although our contemporary eyes, to look at the ancient women's mode of delivery, can not help but feel a little ridiculous, but the reason why they chose to? The vertical birth?
While it may seem absurd to us to look at it from our contemporary perspective, there were some intrinsic reasons why they chose ?
First of all, there is no comparison between the medical level in ancient times and now. Because of the limited medical conditions, they did not do a good job in the sterilization part of the work. If the labor is lying down, the probability of infection will be mentioned. From this point of view, the ancient people's ? Vertical labor? , also out of a kind of helpless choice limited by the medical level. In other words, they wanted to lie down to give birth, but medical conditions do not allow, they can only choose to stand, or sitting birth.
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