Delivery room
A delivery room ( Switzerland : delivery room or -zimmer ) is the delivery room of a hospital , where pregnant women - with the support of midwives and obstetricians - their children's birth .
etymology
The defining word for the delivery room is the verb kreißen , “ Wehen haben”, “ gebären ” from Middle High German krîzen , actually “screaming”, “moaning”, from which screeching is also derived.
Furnishing
A modern delivery room is (possibly) equipped with:
- Bed (e.g. special delivery bed)
- Birthing stool
- Romarad (also known as the birth wheel), a modern “birth stool” that is supposed to convey a feeling of weightlessness, such as during a water birth
- Equipment for relaxation such as ropes, balls seat or wall bars
- (Birthing) bathtub; Water birth tubs are constructed slightly differently and are significantly larger than normal bathtubs; In order to spare the laboring woman from climbing over the edge of the tub, tubs with a large, almost level entrance door are usually used
- Seating for the father or another person of trust
- Technology for monitoring mother and child, e.g. B. CTG for heart tone (in children) and labor control
- Supply devices for the baby (bathtub, heat pillow, etc.)
Web links
Wiktionary: Delivery room - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Familienplanung.de Keyword delivery room: Information from the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. “The mountain twitched and gave birth to a mouse.” Loosely based on “ Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus ” . Horace De arte poetica , verse 139.
- ^ Friedrich Kluge, Elmar Seebold: Etymological dictionary of the German language . 24th edition. ISBN 3-11-017473-1 . Page 537.
- ↑ circle . In: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: German dictionary