10 embarrassing things women must know about delivery room

In addition to the pain, childbirth also involves some embarrassing and blushing things, such as being stripped naked, having your anus picked, having your hair shaved, suffering from incontinence, having your private parts cut, etc. How many of these things do you know? Does it sound incredible? If you have never given birth, you definitely don't know those details. Today, I will list the embarrassing things that happened in the delivery room for you.

Embarrassing Thing 1 You will be stripped naked

When giving birth, whether it is a natural birth or a cesarean section, you will likely have to take off all your clothes and lie obediently on the delivery bed to welcome your delivery. Many expectant mothers feel embarrassed when their private parts are exposed for a long time, especially when the delivery is performed by a male doctor. But if you don't take off your clothes during delivery, the doctor will not be able to perform any operations and the baby will not be delivered smoothly. As a mother, during childbirth, you only need to consider how to cooperate with the doctor to give birth to the baby safely, and don’t think too much about other things. Doctors are very professional, so you have nothing to be embarrassed about.

Embarrassing thing 2: You will be anally examined

From the time you start having labor until you enter the delivery room, the nurse will come to perform an anal examination on you from time to time, sometimes even every few minutes. You may feel uncomfortable or even very painful. The nurse is not playing a trick on you. The purpose of an anal examination before delivery is to understand the dilation of the cervix in order to determine the exact time to enter the delivery room. Generally, the cervix needs to be dilated to more than ten centimeters. The nurses perform repeated anal examinations in order to understand the position of the fetus more accurately. Many expectant mothers ask to go to the delivery room when their cervix is ​​only two or three fingers dilated, which is actually not helpful. Having family members accompany you in the delivery room is much more convenient than in the delivery room.

Embarrassing thing 3: You will be shaved

When giving birth, all pubic hair should be shaved off. You may have never thought about dealing with the hair in that area in your life, and it is not done by you, but by a stranger who you have never met before. You can imagine how embarrassing it felt when shaving.

The procedure of shaving pubic hair during childbirth is called perineal skin preparation. After removing the pubic hair, it will be easier for the doctor to disinfect and suture the perineal wound of the expectant mother who is giving birth naturally. Moreover, bacteria can easily grow in pubic hair, and the fetus may be infected when passing through the perineum, which may cause disease. Therefore, skin preparation is beneficial for both expectant mothers and fetuses. In addition, shaving pubic hair helps clean the perineum and is a good hygiene habit.

Embarrassing Stories 4: The doctor who delivered the baby might be a male doctor

Obstetricians and gynecologists are not just women, many great obstetricians and gynecologists are men. For many expectant mothers, it is indeed embarrassing to expose their private parts to men other than their husbands. At this time, you should consider the doctor's professional level more than his gender. Compared with female doctors, male doctors are stronger and calmer when dealing with emergencies, which helps to ensure a smooth delivery.

Embarrassing thing 5 You will vomit

Almost 90% of mothers experience nausea and vomiting on the delivery bed. Of course, there is a reason for this. For example, epidural anesthesia during childbirth can cause hypotension, which is a sudden drop in blood pressure. One of the first signs is nausea and vomiting. Even without an epidural, the pain of labor can cause vomiting. In addition, during the delivery process, the food in the stomach will stop digesting, which may also cause vomiting.

If you are having a natural birth, in order to minimize vomiting, you should only eat some easily digestible liquid food from the initial stage of labor, or stop eating completely and only drink water or drinks.

Embarrassing thing 6: Your teeth will click

Almost half of mothers will experience the embarrassing experience of body shaking and teeth chattering during childbirth. This phenomenon does not occur because of feeling cold. In fact, during delivery, the expectant mother's body temperature will rise by 1 to 2 degrees and she will feel hot. The previous explanation was that shivering was a direct response to the body's temporary state during labor. But new research suggests the tremors are a direct result of some incompatible elements in the mother's blood. During childbirth, a very small amount of the fetus's blood merges into the mother's blood. If there are incompatible components in the mother and baby's blood (for example, the mother's blood type is A, and the baby's blood type is B), the mother will experience tremors, shivering, and chills.

Embarrassing fact 7: You will be incontinent

As the baby slowly descends through the pelvis in preparation for birth, it squeezes the rectum, forcing some gas out of the anus, the equivalent of a "fart." This is especially likely to happen after epidural anesthesia, when the sphincter muscles near the anus become paralyzed and numb.

This is not the most embarrassing thing. You will also have intestinal movements on the delivery bed. Because the sphincter's control over feces is weakened, many expectant mothers will defecate during the natural delivery process. However, doctors have a very objective attitude towards this matter. They believe that this is just a normal movement of human organs. As the baby's head passes through the birth canal, the rectum becomes smooth and its contents are pushed out. If this really happens, you don't need to feel embarrassed or ashamed. This is a completely normal reaction. Of course, we have rarely heard about these things before, let alone seen them.

Embarrassing Stories 8 You will be given an enema

As mentioned above, you may become incontinent during labor. Pregnant mothers often suffer from constipation, which causes feces to accumulate in the intestines. The sigmoid colon is located in the upper left part of the pelvic cavity. Due to the large amount of feces accumulated in the intestines, it often affects the smooth descent and internal rotation of the fetal head during delivery, thus hindering the progress of labor. Therefore, once labor is imminent, enema should be given to clear out feces from the intestines and reduce resistance in the birth canal. Enemas are indeed uncomfortable, but it is better to endure it than to pass a large amount of feces during childbirth.

Embarrassing thing 9: Your lower body will be cut

In addition to the heart-wrenching pain during childbirth, many expectant mothers are most worried about the next cut. When the fetus' head is about to be delivered, many people's perineum will be cut to protect it. Because when the fetal head with a diameter of about 10 cm is delivered, if there is no help from the midwife to protect the perineum, many new mothers will definitely suffer varying degrees of perineum lacerations; once a laceration occurs, it will leave many sequelae after delivery. If episiotomy is performed in time, there will be no sequelae and it will be beneficial to both the new mother and the baby.

Many expectant mothers worry that this will affect their future sexual life. In fact, it will not. Your perineum may hurt for a while during the recovery period, and a small scar may be left. But as long as the care is good, it will not affect the future life of the couple.

10. You might act like a lunatic.

During labor, especially if you haven't taken any pain-relieving medication, you may scream, cry, curse your husband or the doctors, or even tear your clothes. Although these behaviors are a bit extreme, they are normal and are simply the most direct manifestations of pain and exhaustion.

You can also blame these almost crazy behaviors on the hormonal changes in your body: during labor, the levels of estrogen and progesterone will undergo some changes that roughly follow the pattern of hormonal changes before menstruation, so your reactions will be very similar to premenstrual syndrome. If you do act crazy at times, don't blame yourself. Doctors and nurses are accustomed to these screaming and shouting women in labor. If you don't want this to happen, you can do some preparation ahead of time. For example, take a prenatal class, practice breathing and the correct way to exert force, and try to calm yourself down.

It's scary to think about it. Women, don't be women in your next life.