Sentences with phrase «does episiotomy»

Even if the health care provider does an episiotomy, there is a risk of postpartum bleeding and infection.

Does an episiotomy do harm to the pelvic floor years later?

Does episiotomy influence vaginal resting pressure, pelvic floor muscle strength and endurance, and prevalence of urinary incontinence 6 weeks postpartum?

If your health care provider does an episiotomy — an incision in the tissue between the vagina and the anus that can help ease the delivery of your baby — you're also at risk of postpartum bleeding and infection.

How presumtuous of the AMA to decide what's right for me when OB's routinely do episiotomies and unneccesary C - sections!

CNMs have the training and expertise (if not the inclination) to do episiotomies and vacuum extraction especially in the face of fetal distress.

I lost a lot of credibility in the community by then saying I wasn't going to deliver any more (after all, I was just as incapable as one of your American CPMs (OK, I could do an episiotomy and outlet forceps), but at least I knew it and was scared by it!)

A badly done episiotomy would cause the mother to suffer not the child.

You might not agree with his reasonings, but he did not just do an episiotomy with no notice or explanation at all.

If your baby is big or your body small, your doctor may have done an episiotomy before the baby makes an entrance.

They did not do an episiotomy as they said it is better to tear naturally than to get one.

The mood of the whole room changed when the doctor did her episiotomy and she screamed.

She was extremely upset about the doctor doing an episiotomy because she really didn't want one and she doesn't remember the doctor asking her permission to do one.

Not exact matches

And DO NOT GOOGLE EPIDURAL OR EPISIOTOMY.

At some point however, my doctor told me she knew I didn't want an episiotomy, but she was sure I was going to tear if I didn't get one.

And while I never overtly contradicted a care provider, unplugged my clients from their monitors without permission or guidance from their nurses, put my hand in front of a pair of scissors about to cut an episiotomy, or secretly hoped for an accidental home birth (or any other opportunity to catch a baby), my birth bag and arms - load - of - balls did some serious damage to my relationship (as a doula) with hospital staff.

Do they perform a lot of episiotomies or vacuum assisted deliveries?

epidural @ 3.5 cm (i think with pitocin) and episiotomy, i NAK (and make phonecalls, etc., though when he looks at me i look at him) but don't pump, so my husband gives formula when i leave the baby with him.

If you do give birth vaginally, you are probably to have severe perineal tears or an episiotomy.

My daughter remained crowned for three hours, and my midwives actually thought there might be a need for an episiotomy, even though in twenty years they had never done one.

Do you have any strong views on episiotomy, birth positions, directed pushing, giving birth naturally or anything else?

It found that among women who had vaginal hospital births, had all the usual interventions of vacuum, forceps, Epidurals and Pitocin inductions and augmentation, had an average birth weight of 3500 gm (> 8 lbs), but did not have an episiotomy - this study found that 66 % of primiparous women had no need for suturing, 33 % of primiparas had first or second degree tears sutured and 1 % had third - degree tears and 0.7 % had fourth - degree tears.

Even assuming it is all women, and assuming that women having c - sections don't also get episiotomies, and the c - section rate is around 30 %, that means that over half of the women do not receive an episiotomy.

I was getting at, if she had delivered in the hospital, the fetal HR pattern would most likely have been category II or worse, III, and the OB would have expedited the delivery with an episiotomy and vacuum and any resuscitation may only have been done in the L&D room in front of momma in the neonatal bassinet.

Today episiotomies aren't done as often as they once were.

To be clear, though, I don't think the doctor should've cut an episiotomy if you specifically requested not to have one even in the event of an impending tear.

But that is EXACTLY what you are doing — saying a vaginal tear is better than a surgical cut (episiotomy)!!!!!

Ina May Gaskin's C - section statistics over 40 years: 1.7 % American hospital C - section statistics: 32 % not including routine episiotomy and so on... Oh yes, I know who I would trust for my child's birth... And if the price of an intact body and a peaceful birth was «gentle stimulation» I would accept it with no hesitation... Of course I live in France where obstetric violence is the norm and home birth nearly considered as criminal by the establishment, but where puritanism is long gone (thank God)... You may remove this post as you did for my previous one... It's OK we've got lots of you this side of the Atlantic telling us what's good or bad for us and we trust them less and less.

And you are completely incorrect in stating that OB's don't routinely give episiotomies anymore... they absolutely do.

A fourth degree tear does not heal faster than an episiotomy.

The man who delivered my son was an arrogant asshole, rolling his eyes at me when he didn't like the way I was pushing and shaking his head and sighing heavily when I refused the episiotomy.

Once nearly standard, episiotomies are on the decline and experts now agree that the procedure shouldn't be done routinely.

A midwife can't do any of these things except an episiotomy.

Sometimes benefits clearly outweigh risks, like vitamin K. Sometimes they don't, like episiotomies, which are now performed much less often now that the evidence (gathered by obstetricians) shows that they are not as beneficial as once thought.

OBs weren't sure whether routine episiotomies were a good idea, so they studied the question, and determined that the answer was no, most of the time it doesn't help, although episiotomy can be helpful in carefully selected cases.

I did not get an episiotomy.

Truly unnecessary interventions, done out of ignorance, stupidity or cruelty are another matter, and are rare, based on old science that has long since been abandoned (routine episiotomy comes to mind), and I would join you in arms to prevent these.

Today, however, research suggests that routine episiotomies don't prevent these problems after all.

While some doctors may pressure their patients to do it, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now agree that natural tears may be better for the health of the mother than an episiotomy.

Those who do give birth vaginally to a baby who is posterior are more likely to have an episiotomy and severe perineal tears than moms whose babies are in the more favorable face - down position, even after taking into account the higher rate of forceps and vacuum - assisted delivery.

In fact, my midwife did save me from getting an episiotomy — if she had not been there looking over the OB's shoulder I would have had that totally un-wanted intervention for sure!.

I required an episiotomy (which resulted in a third degree tear)-- had that not been done I could have lost my son, who was not coming out or able to get oxygen.

I was in extreme pain after giving birth to my son I'm a first time mom I didn't know what to expect I brought this in my hospital bag and dug it out the nurses laughed saying that's not going to help you nothing natural will help but it worked wonders for me I sadly ended up having an episiotomy and this really helped me dermoplast didn't help at all but this spray was just what I needed I used the whole bottle and sent my so to buy me 1 more I definitely recommend this

I didn't like the idea of drugs, or forceps, or an episiotomy (shiver) and I dreaded the thought of a caesarean.

«I did end up having vacuum assistance (the cord was wrapped around my sons neck twice so after crowning he couldn't come out on his own) so I was given an episiotomy and even though it really hurts to have scissors cut you open it wasn't horrible.

And given that studies have shown that women who require episiotomies are more likely to experience post-delivery complications — such as blood loss, infection, postpartum pain, pain during intercourse and the involuntary passage of gas or «fecal material» — you can see why most women are eager to do whatever they can to sidestep this particular surgical procedure.

Lactation professionals who resist changes to the Ten Steps are no different from obstetricians who continue doing routine episiotomies.

This is also a very short video — we have no idea how long mom was in labor, what the baby's tracing was doing or any other context that may have influenced the doctor's recommending an episiotomy.

Many do not want an episiotomy or immediate cord clamping.

More and more women are deciding that they want to take back control of their bodies during the labor process and do not want to be subjected to unnecessary procedures (i.e., episiotomy, enemas, breaking of water, etc.) Far too often doctors are performing these and other procedures and giving women pitocin to speed up the labor process to suit the doctor's own schedule, not the mother's or baby's schedule.