Imagine giving birth before the turn of the 20th century, before the necessary equipment that was needed to make sure your delivery went properly to keep you and your unborn child safe. Envision being frightened and nervous about if you are both going to make it through. Not having the right medicine that would help ease the pain and length of labor, but having to forcefully go through the many hours of labor and delivery. Anxious when having sexual intercourse, because you know there is no way of preventing pregnancy because the protection, that is available today, was not available then. Now, a woman can get pregnant and be satisfied, she will not have to worry about if the delivery is going to be sanitary and properly performed, plus having
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There are medicines that are pain management, so when delivering it will not be as much pressure on the body. The techniques makes it safer during the process, although, there are still gonna be risks involved. An important change throughout history of child birth medicine is anesthesia. Anesthesia is considered the most helpful pain medicine, it injected before any surgical related operations are performed. Before pain medicine, pain was defenseless, it was by how much the woman could tolerate. In the late 19th century, mothers in labor could be given a drug called “Twilight Sleep,” which was a mixture of morphine and scopolamine. This drug was meant to relieve pain and caused women to forget most of the events during the delivery. There were still problems with anesthesia, some women weren’t able to communicate with the doctors or nurses, and pushing was very difficult. Due to the women not being able to communicate or push either a cesarean section or forceps were often crucial for the birth to be carried out. Typically when the child’s born after the mother being medicated so heavily, the child is usually generally very sleepy, as well as a reduced drive to breathe properly, often needing the child to have resuscitation, because their is a chance that the child is not breathing at all. Spinal anesthesia was developed in the mid-20th century, formally was known as a “saddle block.” It helped to relive pain
There are medicines that are pain management, so when delivering it will not be as much pressure on the body. The techniques makes it safer during the process, although, there are still gonna be risks involved. An important change throughout history of child birth medicine is anesthesia. Anesthesia is considered the most helpful pain medicine, it injected before any surgical related operations are performed. Before pain medicine, pain was defenseless, it was by how much the woman could tolerate. In the late 19th century, mothers in labor could be given a drug called “Twilight Sleep,” which was a mixture of morphine and scopolamine. This drug was meant to relieve pain and caused women to forget most of the events during the delivery. There were still problems with anesthesia, some women weren’t able to communicate with the doctors or nurses, and pushing was very difficult. Due to the women not being able to communicate or push either a cesarean section or forceps were often crucial for the birth to be carried out. Typically when the child’s born after the mother being medicated so heavily, the child is usually generally very sleepy, as well as a reduced drive to breathe properly, often needing the child to have resuscitation, because their is a chance that the child is not breathing at all. Spinal anesthesia was developed in the mid-20th century, formally was known as a “saddle block.” It helped to relive pain