About the hospital last century can safely shoot horror movies. Mothers of those years remember the birth, as one of the worst experiences of life. The network even coined a special term - "punitive gynecology."
Its clothes - strictly forbidden
Now mothers complain that the hospital should go to the trunks of clothes for yourself and your baby. Some 20 years ago in hospitals it was strictly sterile and be in the clothes is not allowed. New mother betrayed worn, faded shirt to break through to the navel "cut" (that breast feeding get), it is not known how many times used slippers - and that in such a state to "give" it She gave birth.No shorts and pads
In a country where launch rockets into space while there was neither diapers or sanitary napkins. About these miracles of hygiene while nobody even heard. Our mothers and grandmothers during menstruation pads constructed with his own hands - from gauze and cotton wool (Now imagine such a ridiculous). So, even hand-Maid these pads, as well as putting on his pants after childbirth was strictly forbidden. New mothers were given a certain number of times boiled rags, folded several times, had to be clamped between the legs. And to live with these, caught between his feet with rags, day and night for several days after birth. Upon detection of shorts and the home "pads" medical staff arranged a terrible scandal for them scolded and reprimanded at all.
Relatives were not allowed
About childbirth and her husband had not even dream of. Joint childbirth at the time was something from the category of fiction. Husband and other relatives were not allowed not something that prenatal and - horrible to say - rodzal, they were not even allowed into the ward after giving birth. Baby young father and grandparents showed through the chamber window. ABOUT partnerships childbirth no one has ever heard of.
Baby and mother - separately
It is now spread on the child's abdomen immediately after birth and is applied to the chest. Previously, pointing to distance newborn mother, he was immediately taken. Moms were in general wards for a few people, sometimes the number of women giving birth in the House up to 20 people, apart from their children. Infants were in special boxes for newborns and mothers were offered only for feeding - no more than half an hour. Brought - they were given into the hands of my mother fed - claimed. Children brought wrapped in a cocoon, in a diaper. Moms do not even have the right to unswathe, look at the baby. See my baby completely naked was only possible after arrival home from the hospital. While the rule was tightly swaddled baby. No one in the hospital are not taught how. Often the moms and dads on arrival home and spread of newborn diapers, did not know what to do with it, afraid to touch the hands and feet, not to break with the tight swaddling.
Feeding by the clock
Terms of the last century, is strictly regulated - fed infants need to strictly by the hour - every 2 hours. Deviate from this system is strictly forbidden. It was necessary to maintain the proper time - took 2 hours to feed the baby, and not before! Screams and cries? Do not pay any attention, perekrichit. Because if less than 2:00 between feedings applied to the chest is not allowed! The child is sleeping? And it has already passed the 2 hours? Budi and applied to the chest! Of course, the heart is not every mother has survived such brutal, protivoprirodnye rules. However, alternative information was nowhere to be found, and many believe the established rules, believe in their validity.
Decant - law
Now, all of breastfeeding counselors and pediatricians agree on one thing - do not need to decant. Wise nature itself has provided much milk it is necessary to develop breast - demand creates supply. In those days, pumping after each feeding was strictly mandatory procedure. Forced to decant to the last drop of milk in the breast. About any breast pump was out of question. Moms to express milk by hand and gave the nurses. Milk of mothers were mixed and allowed children. Eyewitnesses say that like it was pasteurized in the post, but it's true or not - only God knows. Apparently they did not yet know that through breast milk can infect the child with hepatitis C, HIV and other dangerous for newborn infections.
One shower and toilet on the floor
And it was a luxury. Because even this was not in some rural hospitals. Parturient women had to wash basins or over the toilet water from the banks. Shower worked by the hour. According to pregnant women at the time, some of the hospital and could open the toilet roll, "to mothers did not soiled."Rudeness and boorishness
Having read many stories of the time, it becomes clear that tact completely absent in 99% of the medical staff of the hospital. Offend, humiliate, to hurt physically and mentally giving birth - it was a lovely soul. The phrase - "knew how to push the legs, and now know how to be patient and not to shout" - was a trump in hospitals at that time. With what contempt she pronounced against mothers, and on the part of the female staff. Especially in this excelled nurses, considering themselves the main hosts of the chambers. Although among these heartless employees, of course, there were those who remained a man and whose mothers remembered with joy. And most of all with warmth and good for young mums belonged, oddly enough, the male doctors. From them it was possible to feel more support and sympathy than by female staff. Unfortunately, the positive impressions recollections lose much degradation and filth, which faced women in childbirth. It's only in the movies of the time everything was superprivetlivo and good-natured.
No ultrasound and CTG
Until the mid-late 90-ies of the last century in some hospitals ultrasound machines it was not at all. In other - their cherished as the apple of an eye. Instead, CTG was used up, that listens to the baby's heartbeat. Although now it is also used, though prenatal diagnosis came a whole new level.
No epidural anesthesia
Childbirth is not anesthetized. epidural anesthesiasimply did not exist. If a woman is "broken" in childbirth or cut her crotch, then sewed it all "for a living", it is extremely rare for such cases used local anesthetics, which were in short supply.
Of course, these horrors were not only in our hospitals. For example, singer Patti Smith told of a terrible attitude to it in 1967, during her birth in the United States. Many justify this attitude by the fact that there was not modern technology, and the doctors was one goal - to reduce deaths in childbirth - they did not have to "Tenderness". It is sad that in some hospitals the staff was "old school," and in spite of the convenience in the House, putting some baby on chest right in the delivery room, breastfeeding on demand - do everything possible to new mother recalled the birth of your baby with horror. Fortunately, there are fewer doctors and happy birth more and more.
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