Can I use anesthesia during a normal birth?

Normal childbirth usually does not require anesthesia. If you have anesthesia and lose your feeling, you will naturally not breathe rhythmically, and you will not force the baby to be born. It can easily cause dystocia or head-stuck problems. Once the anesthetic takes effect, the body will no longer be under control, so the child's life will be threatened. You must stay awake during the natural birthing process. After the birthing is completed, if you had an episiotomy, you can consider giving some anesthesia for sutures.

Methods of anesthesia for natural childbirth

Why do many women want to have a caesarean section? It is because the anesthetic used for natural childbirth is local. Although it has little effect on the baby, the mother will feel more pain. When women give birth naturally, local anesthesia is used to relieve pain during episiotomy and suture. Labor analgesia is also widely used in clinical practice.

Natural childbirth is more painful than caesarean section during the birth process, but it is indeed more difficult to recover from a caesarean section afterwards. If there are no obstacles to natural childbirth, it is best not to choose a caesarean section easily.

Effects of anesthesia on the fetus

Basically, most anesthetics and analgesics have an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system. Before taking anesthetics, you must consider whether they will affect the fetus. Anesthetics are more likely to pass through the placental barrier and enter the fetus. An important function of the placenta is to act as the lungs of the fetus and carry out gas exchange.

However, the actual gas exchange efficiency is only 1/150 of that of the lungs. The oxygen transported by the maternal blood must enter the fetal blood circulation through the intervillous spaces of the placenta, and the carbon dioxide in the fetal blood must also enter the maternal blood circulation through diffusion.

Anesthetic drugs can affect the fetus in two ways: directly inhibiting the fetal respiratory and circulatory centers, or indirectly affecting the fetus by inhibiting the mother's respiratory circulation.

Overdose of anesthetics or hypoxemia due to respiratory depression in the mother during surgery will affect the baby's oxygen supply and the excretion of metabolic waste, directly threatening the baby's life safety. Therefore, when choosing anesthesia for cesarean section, doctors must carefully consider the type, dosage, timing and method of medication to prevent direct or indirect adverse effects on the fetus.

Caesarean section is not something that can be performed simply by using anesthesia, and doctors have to consider it carefully.

Tips: Pregnant women should know that anesthesia is required for childbirth, whether it is natural childbirth or cesarean section. However, cesarean section has more requirements for anesthesia. I hope the above content is helpful to everyone.