Painless delivery is essentially a form of hemianesthesia, in which the anesthesiologist administers an anesthetic to the mother's spine, which acts as a temporary barricade on the nerve paths, blocking some of the pain signals for the time being. Painless labor allows mothers-to-be to stop experiencing pain, reduces the fear of labor and post-partum fatigue, and allows them to rest during the long first stage of labor.
Why is childbirth so painful and why is it only available to 30% of people?
These are the main reasons:
1, worry about the impact on the baby, the mother
People's half-understanding or even misunderstanding of the painless delivery is the main reason why many expectant mothers are reluctant to choose painless delivery.
The rumors about the side effects of anesthesia on the Internet and in life have made many women prefer to bear the "10th degree of pain" and grit their teeth, rather than choosing a painless delivery. In particular, some mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law think that "the birth of a child which does not hurt," "on the anesthesia on the baby is not good," "the birth of a child is inevitably suffer a crime," advocating their own home delivery, no drugs, no surgery! The company's website is a "natural" one.
While many people have recognized painless delivery through popularization in the past few years, there are still some mothers or mothers' family members who do not know much about painless delivery or do not know enough about it to doubt whether it will affect the fetus, and thus do not dare to use it, which makes the mothers suffer a lot of pain.
In fact, the drugs used in painless labor will not harm the fetus or the mother, so you can rest assured. Now that painless labor has been implemented for many years, there is a lot of data to support that painless labor is not harmful to the fetus and the mother, so the mother can rest assured that the use of painless labor.
2, the shortage of anesthesiologists
Painless delivery is not available in every hospital, because the injection of anesthesia, so it must be qualified anesthesiologists can play! But the shortage of anesthesiologists and their huge daily workload makes it difficult to find extra time for painless delivery, so not every hospital can offer this service.
Even in some big hospitals, painless delivery is not always available because anesthesiologists do not only give injections to mothers, but also surgical injections, gastroenterological injections and so on. Therefore, the anesthesiologist may not be able to give the injection in time for the unavailability of the scheduled injection.
When my cousin gave birth last year, the doctor said she could have a painless delivery if the uterus was three fingers open, but there were so many women in labor that night that they waited in line for the anesthesiologist to come, but in the end, she couldn't get a painless delivery until my cousin was in the delivery room.
Nowadays, everyone is conscious of choosing natural childbirth, and many of my friends around me have had painless deliveries. The doctor told me that I could have a painless delivery, but I didn't expect my cousin to have one because the anesthesiologist was too busy that day.
The pain of giving birth to a child is only known to those who have experienced it, and painless childbirth allows the mother to remain conscious, it blocks only the local sensory nerves, does not affect the contraction or the strength of the abdominal muscles, and allows the mother to continue to take the initiative to cooperate with the contraction of the force when she is conscious and will not affect the time of the delivery of the child. The benefits are many!
But unfortunately, despite the fact that labor analgesia technology is very mature, its popularity in China is still very low. Many hospitals do not provide this service, and many pregnant women do not understand or even reject labor analgesia. The reason for this is the old-fashioned concept and the lack of relevant professionals.