As a matchmaker, I'm not convinced by anyone

Chapter 480

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

In Sui Dynasty Chao Yuanfang et al.'s "On the Causes and Symptoms of Various Diseases: Women Who Will Give Birth to Diseases", there was a very specific description of the postures of pregnant women giving birth at that time: "Women give birth, there are sitting and lying down" , That is, there are sitting and lying positions during childbirth.

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

That is to say, pregnant women in ancient times gave birth in various positions such as "sitting", "standing", "kneeling", and "squatting".

At least two people assist in vertical delivery, one of whom hugs the pregnant woman's waist from behind. "On the Causes and Symptoms of Various Diseases" states: "If you are in childbirth, you must sit upright, with others supporting your side and waist, and holding it without tilting it, so that the child can follow its course."

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

In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Yan's "Waitai Secret Essentials Preface to Milk Production" quoted "Luan Gong Tiao Qi Fang" to record: At that time, there was a person, one sister and two daughters, who died of dystocia. Later, his daughter-in-law went to the mountains at the end of the month Find an expert guide.

According to the opinion of the "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 places for linen and grass, hanging ropes and wooden balances. For the armpits, you have to rely on the balance, and apply a slow felt under it, lest the child fall into the grass and accidentally injure it."

When giving birth, she adopted the "standing position" and supported the suspended crossbar, and she gave birth to the child smoothly.

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

In the stone carving of "Suffering Gratitude in Birth", a woman stands behind the pregnant woman, and a half-squatting midwife in front is tying up her sleeves and preparing to deliver the baby.This group of stone carvings was excavated in the Southern Song Dynasty and is an important material for studying the delivery methods of ancient pregnant women.

When pregnant women gave birth in ancient times, they often adopted different delivery methods in due course according to the changes in the labor process.For example, in the Song Dynasty, pregnant women gave birth mostly in a sitting position, but other methods were also used.

Yang Kanghou, a medical scientist in the Song Dynasty, said in "Ten Production Theory": "The child is about to give birth, and his mother is tired, and sitting on chairs and mattresses for a long time will reach his way of life."At this time, it is necessary to ask the pregnant woman to take a standing posture: "Use a towel and tie it to a high place, so that the mother can climb it with her hands", and then "gently bend her feet to sit, and the baby 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 in the Pharaoh's palace in ancient Egypt, which depicts the delivery scene of the last queen, Kewebatra, and the queen adopts the "kneeling position" in the vertical delivery.

I have to say, women are really too difficult!

The ancients regarded pregnant women giving birth 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 the hospital to give birth like it is now, so a temporary delivery room was often set up for delivery.

So, where is the delivery room located?How should it be arranged?Every dynasty is different.

Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Lunheng Four Taboos" records that in the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were generally "Sheqiu tombs" and "Ludaoside", that is, a thatched shed next to the tomb and the road was used as a temporary delivery room.Before giving birth, pregnant women are moved into it, and they can only go home with the child after giving birth to the full moon.

When many mothers answer their children's question "Where do I come from", they often say "I picked it up on the side of the road", using such words to fool their children.The origin of its context is related to the fact that the delivery room was set outdoors in the early days, and the child was born in the temporary delivery room on the side of the road. Isn't it "picked up on the side of the road"?

The temporary delivery room is simple, with straw and wheat straw laid on the ground as a puerperium. Therefore, in ancient times, there were names such as "sitting on the grass", "on the grass", "on the grass" and "on the grass".

When paving the grass, the ancients also had to recite the corresponding mantra. According to the eighth article of "Forbidden Grass Law" in Chen Ziming's "Women's Encyclopedia of Good Prescriptions Zuoyuemen", the mantra in the Song and Yuan Dynasties is: "Iron and iron should be done, not for the public. Dang, it is the king who gets the copper with a word, and the iron with a word. The mother and child are both contemptuous of iron, and they are as eager as a law."

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, most pregnant women gave birth in their own homes, which may have something to do with Donghunhou Xiao Baojuan.

Xiao Baojuan had the habit of wandering around, but he didn't want people to see him. Before each trip, he sent people to drive away the people on the way. He had to change the temporary delivery room on the roadside into his home for pregnant women. "Southern History Qiben Jixia" records that a pregnant woman did not leave the delivery room by the side of the road, but Xiao Baojuan was brutally "cut open to see the man and woman".

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

However, no matter whether it is at home or outside, or whether it is kneeling or sitting, one thing has never changed, that is, the ancient women gave birth to a child, which is really equivalent to passing through the gate of hell.

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

Even the empress of Emperor Yuan Baoju of the Western Wei Dynasty and the empress of Kangxi died of dystocia. One can imagine how dangerous it was for women to give birth in ancient times.

At that time, giving birth to a child was really resigned to fate, and it would often end up with a dead body and two lives.

Among other things, just an abnormal fetal position can make the mother almost die.

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

During childbirth, the placenta and membranes will be delivered together with the birth of the fetus. If the placenta and membranes are not delivered completely and remain in the uterus, the uterus will cause massive bleeding due to poor contraction.

Even if everything is normal on the day of delivery, the mother may suffer from reduced immunity due to physical exhaustion during delivery, and puerperal fever may be induced by wound infection.

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

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

Therefore, giving birth to a child really cannot be overemphasized.

The first child of a puerpera cannot avoid being tortured by labor pains. Jiang Xue is no exception, but she is already considered good. From the moment she became pregnant, she has been preparing for the birth under the guidance of professionals. Now Finally it came in handy.

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

Compared with those mothers who suffer from pain all day and night, Jiang Xue is already very happy.

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

Qu Wenhua, who was upgraded to become a father, was as happy as a child. He took out a large bag of red envelopes that he had prepared, and distributed them to everyone. Everyone has 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 baby smoothly."

Huang Lingwei naturally believed in her husband's miraculous predictive ability. She said with a smile: "I feel like I'm going to get an injection now. Before the injection is inserted, no matter how much I do to build my mind, I will be a little nervous and scared. Waiting for the injection to come true. Once you get in, this nervousness and fear should be eliminated."

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

Huang Lingwei smiled when she heard that, with her husband taking care of her, she wasn't afraid of anything.

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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 too terrible, but the serious harm it causes to people is terrible.

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

Liang Xiaowei was born in an ordinary family. Because of his handsome looks and good academic performance, he was very popular with girls when he was a student. He secretly fell in love with Banhua in the second year of high school.

The two worked hard for the common goal and were admitted to a certain 985 university in China. During the university, the two were well-known "fairy couples" in the school, envious of countless single dogs.

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

As a result, he guessed the beginning, but not the end.

After graduating from university, Liang Xiaowei and his first love girlfriend were indeed working in the same city, and both of them had even reached the point of discussing marriage, but at this critical moment, the first love girlfriend who had sworn to him that he would never marry betrayed them For her love, she chose to fall into the arms of a certain rich second generation.

To be honest, Liang Xiaowei, who heard the news, collapsed and 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 passage to him:

"Viagra, before leaving the campus, I really loved you wholeheartedly and wanted to spend my whole life with you. But after leaving the campus and getting in touch with the society, I realized how naive and ridiculous those thoughts were.

In a family like yours and mine, if we get married, we definitely can't afford a house and have to rent a house.Then the two worked hard and lived frugally for a few years before they could save enough for the down payment of a house.

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

In just ten years, the house was bought, and the two had to repay the mortgage while raising their children, and then continue to 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’ll have to save the gift money for him again... So most of my life has passed, I’ve been saving money all the time, just thinking about it Makes my scalp tingle.

Viagra, I really don't want to live like this, 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 bit poor, they are still 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 front of money.

As in an ironic passage:
"A girl ran away with the rich second generation, and met her ex-boyfriend a few years later, and the ex-boyfriend asked her:
Is the rich second generation really better than me?You have a bad stomach and often have pain in the middle of the night. I go to the market every morning and buy the freshest ginger and cut it into slices and put it next to you so that you can suck it when you feel uncomfortable.I'm almost as good as a chef now, can he do that for you?
The girl replied flatly: He can't do what you do, but he spent 30 to take me to a big hospital to cure my stomach problem. "

That is to say, from that moment on, Liang Xiaowei no longer believed in love.

And the magical thing is, after the first love girlfriend betrayed their love and fell into the arms of a rich second generation, not long after, a rich couple came to their door to recognize their relatives.

It turned out that this wealthy couple was none other than Liang Xiaowei's biological parents.

This bloody plot is similar to that shown in TV dramas. Anyway, when Liang Xiaowei was born in the hospital, he was hugged by accident.

What's even more bloody is that the rich second generation who robbed his first love girlfriend was born in the same hospital in the same year, the same month, and the same day as him. It was he and Liang Xiaowei who were hugged wrongly, and they switched identities.

The two people who were supposed to have no intersection had the most special relationship in the world.

Liang Xiaowei actually didn't hate this guy who took over his identity and snatched away his first love girlfriend. First of all, the exchange of identities was definitely not his fault.

Secondly, Liang Xiaowei can tell right from wrong when it comes to robbing a girlfriend. If his first girlfriend is really devoted to him, then no one can snatch her away.

Even, as soon as that guy started pursuing his first girlfriend, the first girlfriend would tell him about it as soon as possible.

But from the beginning to the end, his first girlfriend never mentioned to Liang Xiaowei that someone else was chasing her, so the main responsibility was not on that guy, but on his first girlfriend.

After becoming the rich second generation, Hong Xiaowei (that is, Liang Xiaowei, after meeting his biological parents, Liang Xiaowei changed his surname back, but his name remained unchanged) also had many girlfriends, but none of these girlfriends was devoted to him. It's all about throwing money directly, and everyone gets what they need.

After playing for a few years, my parents began to urge marriage!

However, Hong Xiaowei is quite resistant to getting married. In his opinion, marrying a woman who has no feelings is really unnecessary. Anyway, if you want to reproduce, test-tube babies can meet the requirements.

As for playing poker, as long as you have money, a lot of beautiful women are willing to play poker with you, whether it is playing three-person Doudizhu or four-person tractor, it is not a problem.

So, why find a woman to come back and divide the family property?

Of course, Hong Xiaowei didn't say these words to anyone, but faced with his parents' urging marriage, he used the procrastination tactic, and kept saying that he didn't meet a suitable partner.

This delay has dragged on until now.

(End of this chapter)