What is painless childbirth? What is painless childbirth like?

Everyone should know in life that giving birth is like going through the gates of hell for a woman, but today I will talk to you about painless childbirth. What exactly is painless childbirth and what is it like? Let’s follow me to learn about it.

The so-called "painless delivery" is medically called "labor analgesia", which is the use of various methods to reduce or even eliminate the pain during delivery. Labor analgesia can prevent expectant mothers from experiencing the torture of pain, reduce the fear during delivery and the fatigue after delivery, and allow them to rest during the first stage of labor, which takes the longest time. When the cervix is ​​fully dilated, they have enough strength to complete the delivery because of the accumulated physical strength.

Painless childbirth is actually a general term for non-drug and drug analgesic methods used during natural childbirth. Specifically, it includes non-drug breathing method, mental comfort method and underwater childbirth method, as well as drug-based laughing gas inhalation method, intramuscular analgesic drug method, spinal analgesia method, etc. At present, the most effective analgesic method is spinal analgesia method.

1. Mature technology: Although painless childbirth is still a new thing in our country, it has been widely used abroad. Expectant mothers can enjoy painless childbirth with confidence. This is a simple, safe and mature technology.

2. Safety: Epidural anesthesia is often used for painless delivery. The doctor places a drug tube in the epidural space of the mother's waist. The concentration of the anesthetic in the drug tube is approximately one-fifth or less of that of cesarean section, that is, a light anesthetic, which is very safe.

3. Suitable for a wide range of people: Who is suitable for painless delivery? Most women are suitable for painless delivery, but expectant mothers with pregnancy complicated with heart disease, drug allergy, or history of waist trauma should consult a doctor, who will decide whether they can have painless delivery. People with contraindications to vaginal delivery, anesthesia, or abnormal coagulation function should not use this method.

4. Expectant mothers do not need to enter the operating room. If necessary, they can meet the needs of surgery, shorten the delivery process, reduce the cesarean section rate and postpartum hemorrhage rate, and increase the vaginal delivery rate

5. Avoid movement block, do not affect uterine contraction and maternal movement and the progress of labor. Improve placental blood flow, reduce fetal hypoxia and neonatal asphyxia. Easy to administer, fast onset, reliable effect, meet the needs of the entire labor process.

1. Pregnant women have difficulty exerting force

For women who have not received epidurals, it is easier to control how much force they use. They can adjust how much force they use by themselves. However, women who have received epidurals cannot control their force on their own. Generally speaking, it takes 30 minutes to 1 hour for pregnant women to regain consciousness, and after regaining consciousness, they will know in which direction to exert force.

2. Prolong the labor process

Painless childbirth can prolong the labor process. Relevant data show that painless childbirth can prolong the second stage of labor by 15 to 20 minutes. The extension of the labor process may cause certain problems, which requires doctors and midwives to pay close attention to the changes of the mother to prevent any problems.

3. Increased sensitivity to pain

"Painless childbirth" does not mean painless during the entire labor process. For safety reasons, most hospitals in China currently perform intrathecal blockade when the cervix is ​​dilated to 2-3 cm. If the mother's mental state is tense, fearful, anxious, and lacking confidence, it will also increase her sensitivity to pain. Therefore, being mentally prepared is also a good way to reduce pain.