Anesthetizing injections used during childbirth

During childbirth the body of a woman undergoes a tremendous load. The appearance of the baby is preceded by the many hours of pain experienced by the expectant mother. How a woman tolerates this period, depends not only on the strength of the pains that arise, but also on many other factors, such as the size and position of the fetus, the emotional mood of the parturient woman, the correct performance of breathing exercises. Some feel pain more strongly, in others these sensations are less pronounced, the fact is that each person has an individual pain threshold of sensitivity. In medical practice, pain-numbing injections are increasingly being used to make the birth process more comfortable for a woman. However, before telling about their types, let's determine why all the same there is pain in delivery.

It hurts me, it hurts ...

Pain is visceral and somatic. Visceral pain of a woman is felt in the lower back or in the sacrum, most often it is aching, pressing, dull. Its appearance suggests that the uterus is contracting, and the cervix begins to stretch. Somatic pain occurs when the baby is about to be born, it accompanies attempts and the child's advancement through the birth canals. This pain is acute, it is felt in the rectum, perineum, vagina.

And although with pain sensations a woman can cope on her own, if she follows the advice of a doctor, in many cases it is necessary to put anesthetic injections. Indications for anesthesia can be a large fetus size, premature or vice versa, long-term delivery, use of the drug "Oxytocin" to stimulate labor and with insufficient uterine contractions. Anesthetic injections do not carry any danger to the mother and baby, if the drug is correctly selected and all the necessary conditions are met.

What's in the syringe?

After giving birth, women often recall that during the process they were given some injections, however, many of them do not know what the drug was in the syringe and what it was intended for. Most often in labor, anesthetizing injections are used. At the first stage of labor, it can be analgesics, which are administered intravenously or intramuscularly. A common tool for alleviating pain during bouts is the drug No-shpa. Before the very appearance of the baby, a woman in labor can be injected with a narcotic analgesic, basically it is a drug "Promedol". However, it is worth considering that its use is safe only if there are less than two hours left before the baby is born. Otherwise, a child can get a dose of this drug and then there is a possibility that the baby will begin to suffer from respiratory depression. And this is a direct danger to the child's life. Along with intravenous and intramuscular injections , other analgesic injections are used during childbirth.

A stab in the back

These include peridural and epidural anesthesia. The latter has become more widespread in medical practice.

Peridural anesthesia is the introduction of an anesthetic into the outer shell of the spine, without directly affecting the spinal cord. After such a nyxis, a woman about two hours may not feel the lower body. With epidural anesthesia, a long thin needle is inserted into the interdisk (epidural) space of the spine, where the drug acts directly on the nerve endings that transmit painful impulses from the uterus. Before administering the injection, local anesthetic is made with novocaine. It should be noted that epidural anesthesia uses strong painkillers that contain drugs such as Markain, Ropivacaine, and Ultrakain. The analgesic effect occurs approximately 10 minutes after the injection.

In any case, the need for a particular injection should be determined by the doctor, based on the condition and well-being of the parturient woman, taking into account existing contraindications to this or that drug and assessing the possibility of its impact on the child's body.