"Painless childbirth" is also called "labour analgesia". The "painless delivery" we usually hear is the intra-spinal nerve block method, injecting low-concentration and low-dose anesthetic into the epidural or subarachnoid cavity to relieve pain. Painless delivery is a mature, sa

" Painless childbirth " is also called "labour analgesia". The "painless delivery" we usually hear is the intra-spinal nerve block method, which injects low-concentration and low-dose anesthetic into the epidural cavity or subarachnoid cavity to relieve pain .

Painless delivery is a mature, safe and less trauma than caesarean section, but its popularity in my country is only about 10%.

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Borrowing a mother on the Internet who used painless childbirth to say: The more than 1,000 yuan of painless childbirth is the most valuable money I have spent in my life. (Note: The price of painless childbirth depends on the consumption level and hospital level in different places, and the charging standards are also different. The price of Grade A hospitals in first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai is between 2,000-3,000 yuan, and the price of secondary hospitals in second-tier cities is about 1,000 yuan.)

painless childbirth is completely painless?

The effects achieved by different personal constitution and physiological conditions are also different. Painless delivery will cause pain, but it can generally be tolerated.

Clinically, pain levels are usually classified according to 0-10 points:

0 is divided into severe pain.

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Use painless delivery, usually can control the pain to tolerated "mild-moderate" pain 3-4 points below .

After the mother uses painless delivery, she will only feel her stomach tight when she contracts and , without obvious pain.

The purpose of painless childbirth is to relieve severe pain during delivery and cannot be completely sensation-free. If the labor pain completely disappears, pregnant women may be unable to cooperate with the midwife to give birth because they are difficult to exert force.

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Therefore, using anesthesia and analgesia during natural childbirth will generally only weaken the pain and will not reduce muscle strength. Pregnant women are awake throughout the whole process and can cooperate with delivery under the guidance of a midwife.

painless delivery has an effect on the fetus?

Will painless delivery anesthetic have any adverse effects on the fetus? The drugs injected by intravertebral nerve block method do not directly enter blood circulation . The drugs entering the fetus are very trace, and their effects can be ignored.