The son is born and the mother is born.

Author: Two Snakes

The son is born and the mother is born.

Influenced by those movies and TV dramas, many people think that pregnant women in ancient times gave birth while lying down, but in fact, pregnant women in ancient times generally gave birth while sitting down.

In the "Treatise on the Causes and Symptoms of Diseases: Various Symptoms of Diseases in Women About to Deliver" written by Chao Yuanfang and others in the Sui Dynasty, there was a very specific description of the postures used by pregnant women during childbirth at that time: "Women are giving birth, either sitting or lying down."

, that is, there are sitting and lying positions during childbirth.

However, the first choice for pregnant women in ancient times was the sitting position for delivery, which is a "vertical delivery". In addition to "sitting", standing, squatting, and kneeling are also vertical delivery.

In other words, in ancient times, pregnant women had various postures to give birth, such as "sitting down", "standing up", "kneeling down", "squatting down" and so on.

During vertical delivery, at least two people are required to assist the delivery, and one of them holds the pregnant woman's waist from behind. "Treatise on the Causes and Symptoms of Various Diseases" states: "If a person is giving birth in a sitting position, he must sit upright, with someone supporting his waist and waist, and hold her

Don't let it tilt, let the child follow its course."

Compared with horizontal delivery, vertical delivery has obvious advantages and can greatly reduce dystocia.

Wang Yan of the Tang Dynasty quoted "Luan Gong Qi Adjusting Prescriptions" from "Waitai Mi Yao·Preface to Preface to Pregnancy" and recorded: At that time, there was a man whose one sister and two daughters both died of dystocia. Later, his daughter-in-law went to the mountains when she was approaching the end of the month.

Find guidance from experts.

According to the opinion of this "obstetrics and gynecology expert" in the mountains, this person cleaned up a room and used it as a temporary delivery room for his daughter-in-law: "There are three or four pieces of linen lying around, hanging ropes are tied to wooden scales, and the height is high and low, so that you can squat down."

The armpits must be balanced by a weight, and slow felt is applied underneath to avoid accidental injury by falling grass."

She used the "standing position" during delivery, holding on to the hanging crossbar, and she delivered the baby smoothly.

This vertical delivery can be seen in the Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing.

In the stone carving "Suffering Grace During Childbirth", a woman is standing behind a pregnant woman, and a midwife squatting in front is tying up her clothes and rolling up her sleeves to prepare for delivery. This group of stone carvings was excavated in the Southern Song Dynasty and is important information for studying the delivery methods of ancient pregnant women.

When pregnant women gave birth in ancient times, they often adopted different delivery methods at the right time according to the changes in the stage of labor. For example, in the Song Dynasty, pregnant women mostly used the sitting position to give birth, but other methods were also used.

Yang Kanghou, a medical scientist in the Song Dynasty, said in "Ten Pregnancies": "The child is about to give birth, and the mother is tired and has been sitting on the chair and mattress for a long time, which will hinder the birth." At this time, the pregnant woman should be asked to stand in a standing position: "A handkerchief must be used.

Tie one to a high place and ask the mother to climb it with her hands." Then, "gently bend her feet to make a sitting position, the mother will relax, and the baby will be born."

Vertical delivery was not only the choice of pregnant women in ancient China, but also in foreign countries.

For example, there is a relief sculpture in the Pharaoh's Palace in ancient Egypt, which depicts the birth scene of the last queen Kevebatra. The queen used the "kneeling position" in vertical delivery.

I have to say, it’s really difficult for women!

The ancients regarded pregnant women's childbirth as "unclean". In the early days, it was even taboo to give birth at home, and men, including husbands, had to avoid it. In ancient times, it was not possible to go to a hospital to give birth as it is now, so a temporary delivery room was often set up for delivery.

use.

So, where is the delivery room located? How to arrange it? Each dynasty is different.

Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded in "Lunheng·Four taboos" that during the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was generally a "sheqiu tomb" or "ludaoside", that is, a straw shed was built next to the tomb and the road as a temporary delivery room. Before giving birth, pregnant women were moved into

Among them, only after the baby is one month old can you hold the baby and go home.

When many mothers answer their children's question "Where do I come from?" they often say "I picked it up on the roadside." They use such words to deceive their children. The origin of the context is related to the fact that early delivery rooms are located outdoors.

If a baby is born in a temporary delivery room on the roadside, isn't it "picked up on the roadside"?

The facilities in the temporary delivery room are simple, usually with a layer of straw or wheat straw on the ground as a childbirth mattress. Therefore, in ancient times, giving birth was called "sitting on the grass", "on the grass", "on the grass", and "falling on the grass".

When laying grass, the ancients also recited the corresponding incantation. According to the "Eighth Forbidden Grass Law" of Chen Ziming's "Women's Encyclopedia of Good Prescriptions: Zuoyuemen", the incantation in the Song and Yuan Dynasties was: "Iron iron should be used, it is not public."

Of course, the king can get copper with just one word, and iron with just one word. Mother and son both despise iron and are as anxious as laws and orders."

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, most pregnant women gave birth in their own homes. This may be related to Xiao Baojuan, the Marquis of Donghun.

Xiao Baojuan had the habit of wandering around, but he didn't want to be seen. Before each trip, he would send people to drive away the people on his way. The home for expectant mothers had to convert the temporary delivery room on the roadside into their home.

"Southern History·Qi Benji 2" records that a pregnant woman did not leave the roadside delivery room and was brutally treated by Xiao Baojuan to "see the man and woman through caesarean section."

Since then, the custom of setting up temporary delivery rooms outdoors on the roadside has changed.

However, no matter whether the child is born at home or outside, whether kneeling or sitting, one thing has never changed, that is, giving birth to a child in ancient times was really equivalent to passing through the gate of hell.

The saying "son rushes to life, mother rushes to death" is no joke.

Even the queens of Emperor Yuan Baoju of the Western Wei Dynasty and the queen of Kangxi died in childbirth. One can imagine how dangerous it was for women to have children in ancient times.

At that time, when you gave birth to a child, you really left it to fate, and you could easily end up with two lives.

Not to mention anything else, just an incorrect fetal position can put a mother in danger of death.

Even if the baby is delivered smoothly, the mother is not completely out of danger yet, because she still has to overcome the two hurdles of postpartum hemorrhage and puerperal fever.

During delivery, the placenta and fetal membranes will be delivered together with the birth of the fetus. If the placenta and fetal membranes are not delivered completely and remain in the uterus, the uterus will contract poorly and cause massive bleeding.

Even if everything is normal and there are no abnormalities in the mother on the day of delivery, her immunity may be reduced due to exhaustion of energy during the delivery process, and puerperal fever may be induced by wound infection.

Under ancient medical conditions, once a mother suffers from puerperal fever, she will basically become a Barbie Q.

Even in modern times, once a child is born difficult, it will be life-threatening.

Therefore, having children is really something that cannot be overemphasized.

Mothers who give birth to their first child cannot avoid being tortured by labor pains, and Jiang Xue is no exception. However, she is already fine. From the moment she became pregnant, she has been preparing for delivery under the guidance of professionals. Now

It finally came in handy.

The previous labor pains were relatively mild. It was only when the birth was approaching that the labor pains became unbearable. Fortunately, it did not last long and Jiang Xue gave birth to the baby smoothly.

Compared to those mothers whose pain lasted all day and night, Jiang Xue was already very happy.

The child's birth time was exactly what Jiang Feng said.

Qu Wenhua, who became a father, was as happy as a child. He took out a big bag of red envelopes that he had prepared and handed them out to everyone he saw. Everyone had a share.

Seeing this, Jiang Feng touched his wife's belly and said with a smile: "Honey, are you not nervous now? Like my sister, you didn't have to suffer too much and gave birth to the child smoothly."

Huang Lingwei naturally believed in her husband's miraculous prediction ability. She smiled and said: "I feel like I am about to get an injection. Before the needle goes in, no matter how much I do to mentally build up, I will be a little nervous and scared. When the needle comes, I will feel nervous and scared."

Once you get into it, this tension and fear should be eliminated."

Jiang Feng gave her a warm smile and said, "Honey, I will personally go to the delivery room to accompany the childbirth. Don't worry while I'm here!"

Huang Lingwei listened with a smile on her face. With her husband taking care of her, she had nothing to fear.

…

As the saying goes, "Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of well ropes for ten years." Sometimes the disaster itself is not so terrible, but the serious harm it causes to people is more terrible.

Liang Xiaowei, who is 33 years old this year, has been emotionally hurt once. That emotional injury caused him very serious consequences and made him no longer believe in love.

Liang Xiaowei was born in an ordinary family. Because he was handsome and had good academic performance, he was very popular with girls when he was a student. In his sophomore year of high school, he secretly fell in love with the class beauty.

The two worked hard for a common goal and were admitted to a certain 985 university in China. During their college years, the two were the famous "god couple" in the school and envied countless singles.

Originally, Liang Xiaowei thought that after graduating from college, the two would work in the same city, get married, have children, and live an ideal life.

As a result, he guessed the beginning correctly, but not the ending.

After graduating from college, Liang Xiaowei and his first girlfriend did work in the same city, and they had even reached the point of talking about marriage. But at this critical moment, his first girlfriend, who had sworn to marry him, betrayed them.

Love, I chose to fall into the arms of a rich second generation.

To be honest, Liang Xiaowei collapsed when he heard the news. He couldn't bear the blow at all, and he couldn't understand why his first love girlfriend suddenly changed!

He insisted on an explanation.

So, his first love girlfriend gave him an explanation and said the following words to him:

"Viagra, before I left campus, I really loved you wholeheartedly and wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. But after I left campus and started contacting the society, I realized how childish and ridiculous those previous thoughts were.

With a family like yours and mine, if we get married, we will definitely not be able to afford a house and will have to rent a house. Then the two of us will work hard and save for a few years before we can save enough for the down payment of a house.

payment.

During this period, we cannot have children, otherwise we may not be able to collect the down payment for a house in a few years or even ten years.

In just ten years, after buying the house, the two had to pay off the mortgage and raise their children while continuing to live frugally and save money to buy a car.

When we have a house and a car, if we give birth to a son, I'm afraid we will have to save money for him as a gift... More than half of my life has passed, and I have been frugal. Just thinking about these days

It all makes my scalp numb.

Viagra, I really don’t want to live this kind of life, do you understand?”

Liang Xiaowei was speechless. From his point of view, as long as two people who love each other are together, even if their life is a little more miserable, they will be happy.

But this woman who had been in love with him for seven or eight years obviously didn't think so.

The so-called love is really vulnerable in the face of money.

As an ironic joke goes:

"A girl ran away with the rich second generation. A few years later, she met her ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend asked her:

Is the rich second generation really better than me? You have a bad stomach and often feel pain in the middle of the night. I go to the market every morning, buy the freshest ginger, cut it into slices and put them next to you so that you can hold them in your mouth when you feel uncomfortable. I am now a knife expert

It’s almost time to catch up with the chef. Can he do this for you?

The girl replied calmly: He couldn't do this to you, but he spent 300,000 to take me to a big hospital and cured my stomach problem."
To be continued...