Procedure after entering the delivery room for cesarean section

Having a baby is the biggest thing. Whether it is a caesarean section or a natural birth, you should be adequately prepared before delivery. Especially for women who have a caesarean section, they have to go through a series of processes after entering the delivery room. However, the process of a caesarean section is relatively fast, and it does not take long. Let's take a look at the process after entering the delivery room for a caesarean section.

1. Listen to the fetal heart rate and then perform anesthesia

Listening to the fetal heart rate is to ensure the condition of the fetus. If everything is normal, the patient will be placed on the operating table. Anesthesia will be administered at this time. After anesthesia, you will have no feeling in your lower body, but some people will be able to feel the knife cutting.

2. Medical staff will gradually enter the delivery room

A few minutes after anesthesia, the surgeon will come in one after another and begin to disinfect the mother's abdomen, then lay a sterile sheet and put up a frame on the neck to block your view.

3. Open the abdominal wall

Before cutting the abdominal wall, the doctor will first test the effect of anesthesia. If there is no pain after the doctor pinches the mother's belly, the operation can begin. The doctor will cut the skin, muscles, etc. layer by layer, and slowly approach the uterus.

4. Open the uterus

After the abdominal wall is cut open, the uterus will be cut open next. The incision is about three centimeters, and then it will be torn open with both hands along the lines. This will help the mother's postoperative recovery.

5. Support the fetal head

After the uterus is cut open, the doctor will puncture the fetal membrane and wash out the amniotic fluid. The surgeon will reach into the uterus and hold the fetus's head. The midwife will then press the uterus to push the fetus down, and the surgeon will remove the fetus's head.

6. Take the body out

After the head is removed, the fluids in the fetus's mouth and nasal cavity must be cleaned, and then the body is pulled out and the umbilical cord is cut, and the mother and child are completely separated.

7. Take out the placenta

Since the uterine contractions of women who undergo cesarean sections are weaker than those of women who give birth naturally, they will be given oxytocin to start the uterus contracting, so that the placenta will slowly detach. The doctor will then pull the placenta out by hand.

8. Suturing the wound

Suturing a wound is not easy. Generally, about seven layers of sutures are required before the operation is considered complete.