When watching ancient TV dramas there are often such images, the mother is going into labor, the first time to go to the steady woman, then the steady woman will explain the people to boil water, in the process of giving birth to a baby, is to use a lot of boiling water. A relative of the family used to specialize in helping others to deliver babies, and asked her about how so much boiling water is used in this matter?
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1. Sterilization, before there is no alcohol, iodine and other disinfectants, such as the knife and other objects to disinfect the words directly on the fire, the water will be directly boiled. The use of boiled water in the process of delivering babies undoubtedly greatly reduces the rate of infection.
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2. To help women clean, in the process of giving birth to a child, will flow out of amniotic fluid or blood, the amount of quite a lot of mothers who have given birth to a child know, and sometimes urinate and defecate, can be embarrassing. Ancient birth place is not like the current delivery room, there are things to catch these things, can not catch, it will make the birth place is very dirty, then you need to clean, many times to clean, so it will use a lot of boiled water, with hot water is also conducive to the expansion of the uterine mouth, shorten the labor process. ?
3. The mother of the child washing her hands, there will be a lot of uncertainty in the process of labor, such as fetal position is not correct, then you need to put her hand in to help the fetus to turn the fetal position, or the labor process is too long, the pregnant woman can not keep up with the physical strength of the mother of the child, but also need to help the mother of the child to help. In this process, the mother needs to wash her hands many times, and also use a lot of boiling water, one to play the role of disinfection, and the other to play the role of cleaning.
4. Wash the fetus, the fetus is born with some fetal fat blood and water and so on, it looks dirty, touch slippery, this time the boiling water will come in handy, the fetus can be washed clean, in fact, hot water to wash things will be cleaner than cold water, and will not be cool water to the newborn baby bath wipe it, the umbilical cord is also the need to disinfect the ah! (At this time the baby should have already cut the umbilical cord, can not touch raw water to prevent infection). The first step in the process is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing.
Speaking of which, let's talk about the umbilical cord, relatives said that in the past, the umbilical cord is generally not used scissors, scissors, if the disinfection is not good enough to easily get tetanus, are broken a bowl, with a bowl piece to cut the umbilical cord, cut the umbilical cord can not be used to wash the raw water after the umbilical cord. The first step in the process is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing.
5. Help the mother to wipe her body, a lot of sweat during labor and delivery, after which it will feel very sticky, with a hot towel to wipe will feel more comfortable, to ease the discomfort brought about by the delivery.
Previously, giving birth to a child is really dangerous, at any time there may be a dead body, good thing nowadays, advanced technology, medical prosperity, greatly guarantee the safety of mothers and babies, and we don't need to be in the birth of the baby desperately to boil water.
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