In ancient times, a woman giving birth to a child is one of life's major hurdles, good birth mother and child peace, birth is not good, blood avalanche on the spot death. Now the medical means has been very developed, the birth of a child can be two choices, normal delivery or cesarean section, no matter which choice, basically very safe, there will be no life-threatening things.
In ancient times, because of the limited development of science and technology, women can only give birth to a child, there is no specialized medical institutions, there are only often experienced midwife, as for the birth of the birth or not to rely on their own luck, fetal position. The woman is usually prepared with two tools, scissors and hot water, and then her own experience in delivering babies.
Some people may ask what the hot water is for, and what the scissors are for. The first is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you're doing and what you're doing. The following is to popularize the use of these two tools for childbirth in ancient times.
First: hot water plays a role in regulating the room temperature
A pot of water may not be able to change the room temperature, but the amount of water must be able to, the woman can not meet the cold when giving birth to a child, it will damage the body, put the hot water in the room, you can maintain a constant temperature of the room, to avoid the woman from being cold.
Second: hot water for disinfection
Ancient production of the environment is simple, dirty, accidentally very easy to seep into the wounds, infected with bacteria, in addition to the mother-in-law needs to constantly assist in the production of the hand between the pregnant woman and the child back and forth between the touch contact, both at this time of the pregnant woman, or the child is extremely fragile, can not afford to be contaminated with bacteria, the mother-in-law will be hot water to disinfect non-stop! The hot water rubbed on the door of the uterus can also assist the pregnant woman to carry out effective contractions, in addition to the baby was born, also need hot water for cleaning, wash away the child body dirt, blood.
Third: scissors to cut the umbilical cord on the baby
The baby in the mother's stomach, and the mother to produce a connection with a band called the umbilical cord, after the baby is born, and the mother to separate, the umbilical cord will not have a role to play, this time it is necessary to cut the band to play a real separation of the mother. This work is usually done by the midwife, every second of production is very critical, cut the umbilical cord is also urgent, long time, easy tetanus, once the baby is born, immediately the midwife will first use hot water on the scissors to disinfect and sterilize the treatment, cut the umbilical cord.
So we see a lot of movies and TV dramas, the birth of a child's camera, the mother-in-law is as long as the scissors and a lot of hot water, scissors and hot water role is here.