I am sure that many women at the time of giving birth will wonder if science could not have advanced enough for this trance to be passed in another way, but the reality is that it has done so and enough. Surely you think differently after knowing these Ten strange situations that occurred at the time of giving birth throughout history.
The next time you see each other in one of those bedside beds, think about what it would be like to give birth while keeping your balance on some stones, or rather leave it, we are sure that you will be thinking about other things.
The biblical method of giving birth on bricks
The Bible tells us that at that time, women gave birth on a pair of bricks that were placed under their feet, called "birth bricks" whose purpose was to give the midwife some extra space to catch the baby before That fell to the ground
The stool of childbirth
Once we stopped being a nomadic people and began living in houses instead of tents, the parturients gave birth on a stool. The future mother stood on the stool and lay back while another woman held her from behind.
He drank alcohol during contractions
Come, and for sure, no one brought you a miserable soda! Well, despite the madness that it may seem today to enter the parchment clutching the bottle of rum, we must say that in the past people drank a beer mug or wine before a glass of water and well, a birth it hurt.
Royalty gave birth in public
With more public than now, we mean. And it is that at the time when being a Monarch was not a pecata minuta, giving an heir to the crown was a matter of state. Therefore, a Royal birth was so important for the future of the Crown and it is assumed that the country, which should occur in the presence of witnesses who could corroborate that there had been no trap or cardboard and that the royal roro that was in the cradle He had left where he was supposed to and of the right sex.
They want me to tell them, for me it's a good reason not to sign up to be queen.
Marry while giving birth
Imagine now, those mothers who have already gone through a delivery room if during the expulsion someone told them: "Fulanita, do you accept Menganito as a husband?" I imagine that more than one wedding would be postponed, at least until the bad milk was passed through the trance suffered. Well, that's just what some women in a South African tribe go through who can only get married when they are giving birth.
They cooked cakes during the dilation
I don't know about you, but I don't understand what weak sex can be called who can cook a cake with labor contractions every few minutes. The cake was called "cake of the moans", guess why, and I suppose it would be the fruit of the macho mentality of that time to consider that to distract women from the pains of childbirth, they would start baking cakes. Surely some would protest if too much was done.
A hygiene that left much to be desired
It has not been until the twentieth century that the existence of germs and their methods of contagion have been known, which meant that until that moment the doctors, midwives and other personnel in labor did not even wash their hands and with luck , the newborn could end up in a fairly clean cloth.
Make a will
This custom has been carried out until very recently, even today. Without going any further, my mother asked for a confessor when she entered the hospital "for what might happen." It must be taken into account that the mortality of the mother during childbirth has always been very high until the birth protocols have been improved, ultrasounds have appeared that are able to detect possible complications during the process.
Let the baby fall alone
According to historical records, in some Native American tribes, the woman squatted for childbirth and simply the baby fell on a bed of leaves (they didn't think they were going to drop him on the floor, right?
Pain during childbirth was considered a divine sign
You know, it is written, the thing about the apple, the snake and a condemnation to give birth with pain caused that when in 1900 the anesthesia was discovered and its possibility of applying it during childbirth, the board of obstetrics of that time prohibited its use for considering that it was a divine mandate for the woman to suffer in childbirth. You know, the problems of leaving a meeting in the hands of men who knew a lot about giving birth.
So the next time you visit the delivery room think that yes, that things have progressed quite a lot since our ancestors and that they should continue to do so because it seems that there are still vestiges of those beings in some hospitals today.
