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Painless childbirth, what you want to know, Linyi Maternal and Child Health will answer.

It has been 4 years since the nationwide pilot program for labor analgesia was launched, yet most families still do not understand or have only heard of painless delivery, holding biases and misconceptions about it. Do you know about painless delivery?


Author:

Linyi Maternal and Child Hospital - Editor

Recently, data from a survey on 'painless childbirth' published by the Physician Journal shows that82% of respondents expressed a willingness to choose painless childbirth.However, the reality is thatonly 30% of mothers in our country use painless childbirth.It has been 4 years since the nationwide pilot program for labor analgesia was launched, yet most families still do not understand or have only heard of painless childbirth, holding biases and misconceptions about it.Do you understand painless childbirth?

In the thousands of answers online to the question 'How painful is natural childbirth?', you can feel waves of fear coming through the screen.

Although each mother's situation is different, there is no doubt that labor pain is the top 1 severe pain faced by women. Those who have never given birth can never truly understand the pain of childbirth.

 

To help everyone understand, the medical community has categorized the pain that the human body can feel into 12 levels:

 

After reading this, will you still casually tell your wife to 'just endure it'?

The suffering a mother endures during childbirth cannot be summarized simply by the word 'great'.

Heart-wrenching, life-threatening.

If the pain of childbirth can make a mother feel despair in an instant, then the painless injection must be a miraculous remedy that goes straight from hell to heaven.

 

 

What are the benefits of painless childbirth?

● Good analgesic effect, especially suitable for mothers with severe labor pain.

● Mothers remain awake and can participate in the entire labor process.

● Flexibly meets the anesthesia needs for forceps delivery and cesarean section, saving time to end the labor process early.

● With the emergence of the new administration method PCEA (Patient-Controlled Epidural Analgesia), the analgesic effect of labor has improved, with almost no impact on the mother and baby or the labor process.

● Epidural analgesia can be directly performed when a vaginal delivery needs to be converted to a cesarean section, shortening the anesthesia operation time, which is crucial for saving lives in emergencies.

● For critically ill patients, epidural analgesia can effectively reduce the rate of general anesthesia intubation and related risks.

 

Will painless childbirth affect the fetus and breastfeeding?

The principle of implementing labor analgesia is to ensure the safety of both mother and fetus.

The drug effects of epidural analgesia are localized, and the dosage of drugs entering the mother's bloodstream and secreted in breast milk is minimal, which will not affect the baby.

Strangeness and misunderstanding

should not be reasons for women to endure pain.

Let us regain our reverence, awe, and gratitude for life.

Combining painless childbirth technology with love

dedicated to every mother about to give birth.

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