Unfortunately, today we very often hear phrases from young mothers such as “a difficult birth,” “a baby suffered,” etc. Injuries to children can be very different. Same as women. Alas, such a misfortune can happen to everyone. How do mother and child feel if there were really difficult births? Was the baby hurt? If so, then it is already bad. Baby - physically. Mother is moral.
Was there a difficult birth? Was the baby hurt? Who's guilty?
So, if a woman had a difficult birth, the baby suffered, everything around, of course, seems just awful. Of course, relatives and relatives of the mother will immediately begin to look for those responsible. Previously, the researchers divided the delivery into “good” and “bad” depending on their duration, drug use, level of interventions and type of delivery. These characteristics are objective. Today, this issue is considered from the side of subjective characteristics.
There were difficult births, the baby suffered ... Why could this happen? Firstly, because of how quickly events began to develop. In the event that the situation suddenly changed from favorable to dangerous, if no one had time to explain to the woman in childbirth what was happening to her, this could lead to negative consequences.
Secondly, problems could arise if a woman was limited in movement, that is, if everything that was happening did not depend on her at all. The use of general anesthesia could aggravate the situation. In the future, all kinds of delays may occur in the crumbs in the formation of muscles, in the development of the psyche. Respiration and heart contractions may be slowed down, motor activity, sensitivity and muscle strength may be absent, weight lag may be observed.
Thirdly, it could be the consequences of a severe pregnancy, the threat of its termination, abnormalities in the development of the fetus. Even a woman's mood (if she is visited by thoughts of a possible unsuccessful outcome) can provoke unsuccessful childbirth. In short, the reasons may be different.
The consequences of a difficult birth
And the results are also different. If the woman had a difficult birth, the baby was injured, the injury can be mild (like a slight sprain, which can subsequently lead to small tumors, easily eliminated by warming and massaging).
However, everything can be much more serious. It happens that children are born bluish in color, lifeless, with severe damage to the digestive tract and central nervous system, etc. In such cases, babies do not always survive. Or, for several weeks, they are between life and death. However, even after surviving, children grow up weak, painful.
In especially severe cases, such children have to eat with the help of special devices. In this case, the child may feel sick. Accordingly, it is also necessary to install a gastric tube to remove fluid from the stomach.
Children for a long time can not hold their heads, sit, roll over, respond to voice. They only react when they are touched. In general, the consequences can be really scary.
Birth injuries to the head
So, sufferers, bruises, and intoxications are quite common injuries. All this extremely negatively affects the physical and intellectual development of the child.
Most often, however, in such difficult situations a child’s head suffers. So, if the birth was difficult, the baby was injured - a traumatic brain injury should be feared first. This is the main cause of mortality and disability in childhood. Such damage requires special management, significantly different from the accepted. This type of injury is characterized by prolonged compression of the head, aspiration of amniotic fluid, hypoxia with placental abruption, etc.
Treatment of birth head injuries has long been considered unpromising. Only with the advent of new diagnostic methods in the second half of the twentieth century, there was little progress.
Treatment
In a word, in the event that the childbirth was difficult, the baby was injured, a head injury or any other trauma was discovered, he definitely needs the help of good specialists. Of course, care for such children and their treatment have certain features. They must be provided with a gentle regime. And in case of too serious condition - being in a specialized department. In case of respiratory failure, repeated asphyxia and seizures, the child cannot be moved. Swaddling, feeding and care are carried out in the crib.