Medical measures to facilitate childbirth
It has long been believed that every woman must go through a tribal pain for biblical sin to feel the joy of motherhood. This theory has long been left by humane doctors, for them the well-being of women is in the first place. Now medicine is far gone from those times when in the arsenal the midwives had only intoxicating drinks, spells and a knife.
Modern methods of anesthesia can be divided into two large groups: medicamentous and non-medicamentous. All of them are designed to reduce pain, eliminate feelings of fear, to calm a woman before the forthcoming birth.
Anesthesia begins in the first stage of labor, after a vaginal examination, if the woman has regular fights and an opening cervix. At the same time, they use medicines that relieve muscle spasm, for example, no-shpu. In order not to cause respiratory depression in a newborn, certain drugs stop being injected 2 hours before the baby's birth.
Peridural anesthesia is a very serious intervention and can only be used by experienced doctors. It is necessary to assess judiciously the pros and cons of this method. With this kind of anesthesia, a woman lies or sits,
with her legs tucked to her chin. The needle is inserted between the vertebrae in the lumbar region, into the space next to the spinal cord. Under the influence of this method, there is a loss of sensitivity in the area below the pelvis, the muscles of the perineum relax, which leads to a decrease in pressure on the fetal head. The doctor so calculates a dose of an anesthetic so that the medicine ends before the period of the fetal expulsion, when the woman herself must regulate the force of the attempts. This method of anesthesia is recommended if you do not have the following diseases: congenital and acquired heart defects, chronic lung and kidney diseases, severe swelling, myopia and retinal damage.
After giving birth with this method, women complain of back pain, temporary numbness of the limbs, headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, skin itching and depression.
To reduce pain during the opening of the cervix, rectal suppositories with anesthetic will help.
For the removal of pain in some maternity hospitals inhalation method is used, when anesthetic gaseous substance enters the body during breathing through the mask.
The combination of various means is due not only to the emotional state of a woman, but also to her health: the presence of high blood pressure, severe complications of pregnancy, heart disease and respiratory system.
Non-pharmacological agents used now are very diverse. These include: psycho-preventive training, auto-training, hypnosis, acupuncture, anesthesia with low-power current.
Psychoprophylactic preparation for childbirth.
This is a whole program aimed at eliminating the feeling of fear of childbirth. It is made up individually, depending on the specific features of the woman's emotional perception. The goal of the training is to convince and teach the woman in childbirth how to properly prepare for the process of the birth of a child, to eliminate internal tension, bad thoughts, to tune only to positive feelings and give birth without pain.
During a maternity leave, try embroidering or knitting, humming your favorite tunes and imagining that at this time the baby also listens to you.
One of the important moments in the preparation for childbirth is training in breathing exercises that promote muscle relaxation. During fights try to breathe deeply, the duration of inspiration and exhalation should be the same.
During the removal of the fetal head, it is also recommended to breathe frequently and intensively during breaks between contractions.
Autotraining helps reduce pain sensitivity and relieve fear of childbirth. Includes 9-10 lessons of 25-30 minutes, during which the expectant mother in a relaxed state should repeat in a certain sequence a set of short sentences that her birth will pass safely. This method of preventing pain is suitable for emotionally sensitive women.
Acupuncture is a method of relaxing and eliminating pain based on the theory of biologically active points. On the human skin, there are many points, each of which, with a certain stimulation, corresponds to a change in the work of internal organs.
The introduction of a small number of needles for a period of 30 minutes to 12-18 hours can eliminate pain.
Electoanalgesia is a method of using currents with low force and high frequency. The woman is put electrodes on the forehead and the back of the head, and after 40-60 minutes she falls into a half asleep state. The duration of anesthesia with a current is 1-2.5 h.