Encountering extra beds and the screens provided to protect the privacy of mothers on these beds, one walks by the outer edge of the screens. A glance inside the screens reveals expectant mothers in pain, their faces pale, unable to speak, shedding tears, accompanied by the rhythmic sound of fetal heart monitoring.
How painful is childbirth. Perhaps every expectant mother’s experience during delivery is different. So may be in so much pain they faint, while others endure it until a successful delivery.
In dicine, the classification of pain levels is not divided by types of illness but by clinical symptoms.
The different pain perceptions of expectant mothers lead to seemingly contradictory phenona in clinical practice. Doctors, by observing the complexion and vital signs of the mother in labor, believe a natural delivery is possible, yet the mother insists she is in unbearable pain. It can only be said that pain can truly be tornting at tis.
Because dicine advocates for natural childbirth, doctors will not resort to a C-section lightly. In such cases, dical staff will continue to encourage those who can deliver naturally to try. However, the landscape of wailing mothers resembles a battlefield, where so dical staff, after witnessing such scenes repeatedly, may beco desensitized like dical personnel on a battlefield, unable to discern whether the pain is truly unbearable unless the life signs of the mother or fetus begin to drop. Good hospitals will add more midwives to perform cross-evaluations of the condition of laboring mothers and provide tily feedback to doctors. Small hospitals cannot afford this.
Nurses are always the first line of defense in monitoring changes in a patient’s condition. If this line of defense is not established well, one can foresee endless terrifying situations. This is why Guoxie trains its nurses for self-use only, to prevent them from working elsewhere. Can’t doctors handle it themselves? It once again boils down to money. Doctors earn significantly more than nurses.
The entire delivery room resembles a gunfight zone in a bustling area, with no particularly quiet place for labor. Every expectant mother would like to enjoy the best labor environnt. So hospitals with ans provide such favorable conditions. For instance, Beidou Third Hospital has two single-person labor rooms. Only these single-person labor rooms do not infringe on the privacy of other laboring mothers, and they allow one family mber inside for companionship.
Scarcity drives prices up, so the cost of single-person labor rooms is undoubtedly high. On the other hand, there are quite a few wealthy people. To get into a single-person labor room, besides having enough money, you need connections and the good fortune of the mother in labor to enjoy such treatnt. That last part is the most critical and cannot be resolved with money. If the queue is long, and just as you’re about to give birth, the previous person hasn’t delivered and left, you won’t get in. Or if you unexpectedly require a C-section or give birth earlier than the person before you, you won’t need it.
These factors repeatedly verify the constant changes within the delivery room. Therefore, clinical obstetricians never dare make promises about how long a patient will take to deliver. Of course, dicine has regulations that require a C-section if labor exceeds a certain duration.
Arriving at the multi-person labor room, Teacher Zheng quickly found his colleague, Doctor Peng, amidst the bustling crowd.
Doctor Peng is a slender female doctor in her thirties, not wearing glasses, with her long hair tucked inside a surgical cap, giving her a composed and competent appearance. Obstetricians, like doctors in other wards, are on 24-hour duty. After a busy day, Doctor Peng inevitably felt deeply fatigued, sweat lined her forehead, as she intermittently adjusted her breath to gather strength for continuing her work.
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