Sentences with phrase «as hospital labors»

During my time as a hospital labor and delivery nurse, some of the most common phone calls we answered were about the mucus plug.

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Increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages (including the birth of engineering, social benefits such as universities, hospitals and the beginnings of corporations and labor guilds, as well as science, (all under the Catholic Church) has led to the label being restricted in application or avoided by serious historians.

As of 1997, «nearly two - thirds of all women who give birth in hospitals with high - volume obstetric units had an epidural during labor.

Drive Gingerly and Watch the Bumps Your trip to the hospital is not a NASCAR event; your practice runs and the real thing should be as smooth as possible because a woman in labor is extremely sensitive to sudden moves and even small bumps.

Giving birth in the comfort of your own home has the benefits of intermittent monitoring (as opposed to constant monitoring at the hospital), fewer vaginal checks and is a great alternative to hospital birth if you have experience with previous fast labors.

Her experiences as a labor doula have been at all area hospitals and with all types of births.

In addition, they are typically healthy and wish to avoid routine hospital interventions or non-evidenced based practices such as being confined to a bed, not being allowed to eat or drink in labor, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, routine IV fluids, non-medically indicated (pitocin) induction, episiotomy and other common birth interventions.

The Believe Midwifery team was with us the whole time and was so supportive even as I labored in the hospital.

These reconstructed «natural facts,» while equally socially embedded relative to more medicalized perspectives, are seen by midwives as essential components of the foundation needed for «trusting birth outside the hospital» once labor begins.

We will cover the natural process of labor, comfort measures, relaxation, emotional and mental preparation for labor and how to handle many variations of birth, as well as how to navigate interventions and options in the hospital setting.

As Dekker pointed out, if hospital maternity wards are full with women being induced, will there be enough room left for women who arrive already in labor?

Knowing I was a doula who had planned on a home birth, they were respectful and thoughtful with the decisions I was making and left me and my husband to labor on our own (as much as a hospital can allow).

Dr. Lane assisted in the birth of Paige and Parker, the older two, while working as a labor and delivery nurse at a local hospital.

The water birth areas at Hudson Valley Hospital are inviting spaces for your partner or your labor doula to facilitate comfort measures as needed.

We offer «montrice services» during labor away from the hospital: examinations to assess dilation as desired, assessing mothers vitals and baby's heartbeat to ensure labor is safely progressing.

In our delirium as we headed to the hospital, we completely forgot to bring the two cases of coconut water, hard boiled eggs, almond butter, energy bars, etc. that we had ready to go for labor at home.

I knew I had chosen homebirth for a reason that was as much physical and mental — even though we were treated wonderfully at St. Lukes, my body sensed I was in a hospital and shut down my labor!

As for his patients who would choose a hospital delivery, they were well - known for making things «difficult» for hospital staff: refusing to be «shaved», have enemas, (both still standard procedures in 1981) and wanting to do unthinkable things like get up and walk around during labor instead of lying (preferably) on their backs or sides strapped to a fetal monitor - all with the encouragement and blessing of their doctor.

Birth Support: The Midwife will come to your home or meet at the hospital to labor with as planned during our prenatal sessions.

If you are cared for by a midwife they come and assess you at home when you go into labor even if you are planning on a hospital birth (unless you choose to go right in and meet them there but most midwife clients want to be at home as long a possible from what I understand).

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

This mother did everything right, and in a hospital her protracted labor would not be so callously labled as a variation of normal.

They can't kick you out of the hospital because you refuse an IV or won't put on their stupid gown - as long as what you're wearing is suitable for labor.

She worked as a labor, delivery, and postpartum nurse at Providence Newberg Hospital for 10 years while pursuing her midwifery studies through Frontier Nursing University, graduating in October 2008 as a Certified Nurse Midwife with a Masters in Nursing.

Before you go into labor, you should have your hospital bag packed and ready to go, as well as the route to the hospital figured out.

the attitude that it doesn't really matter what happens to you in the hospital during labor because as soon as you hold your baby you won't care anymore is FALSE and it is hurting women.

After working as a childbirth educator and attending a couple hundred births (as a doula — labor assistant) in birth centers, homes and hospitals, I've come to believe that the overwhelming majority of women intuitively gravitate to which location, type of support and «methodology» is best for themselves and their unborn babies to achieve a safe passage through the giving birth / delivering experience.

My second baby had been breech as well, only we hadn't found out until I was at the hospital in labor.

Besides making them promise to eat healthy and understand that she may not go to the hospital with them if they require a transfer, she also states that she doesn't have malpractice insurance, as the cost of it would be transferred onto her patients (because it only costs $ 3600 pre paid for her to tell you to trust birth for 9 months and then come over and knit in the corner when you go to labor.

Wear it as a nightgown when you are pregnant, use it during labor and delivery, and then wear it in the hospital and postpartum as you recover and transition into motherhood.

If you arrive at the hospital before you're in active labor and you know you're going to want an epidural, you can ask the anesthesiologist to place the catheter as soon as you're settled in your bed.

Hospitals are reverting to more natural methods of labor, delivery, and postpartum care as the knowledge and research surrounding maternity care and women's health continues to change and advance.

As an added bonus, you're not expected to feed the hospital labor team.

Hundreds of hospitals across North America offer water labor and birth, as do most birth centers.

These cubes are obviously most convenient to use during a home birth, or while you're laboring at home before transitioning to the hospital, but they become increasingly effective as labor intensifies and appetite for other foods decreases.

National data from the ongoing CDC survey of Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC), which assesses breastfeeding - related maternity practices in hospitals and birth centers across the United States, indicate that barriers to breastfeeding are widespread during labor, delivery, and postpartum care, as well as in hospital discharge planning...

Through her years as a labor and delivery nurse at White Plains Hospital, her early contacts with pioneers in obstetrics as well as her own experience as a midwife, Robin has witnessed, and contributed to, profound advancements in how women give birth.

From helping preemies grow steadily to holding a mom's hand during labor until her husband arrives as the hospital, nurses provide essential care we wouldn't want to go without.

As a new mother's body sheds fluids from pregnancy and those given intravenously during hospital labor and childbirth, milk production begins in earnest.

The morning of 9/11, she went into labor, and as things were beginning to develop, word spread in the hospital of some sort of explosion in Manhattan.

While it may seem silly to do so, especially so early on, you will thank yourself later when labor begins, as you will not have the added stress of trying to navigate your way to the hospital at the last minute!

This changed rapidly as birthing in the hospital became viewed as a safer and pain - free way of laboring.

A birth plan is designed to let your doctor and the hospital know your wishes in regards to your plans for when labor begins (such as, no epidural or episiotomy).

It is a general fear that once labor begins you need to rush as fast as you can to the hospital, otherwise you better hope the backseat in that taxi is free from germs!

The problem I see is that direct entry midwives in the United States will often attend home births that do not fit these criteria; while insisting that home birth is at least as safe as hospital birth, many will attend twin births, breech births, births after 41 weeks, births of women who have pre-existing or pregnancy - induced disease, births after two or more previous caesarean sections, and births of women whose labor has been jump - started rather than begun spontaneously (whether by herbs, prolonged nipple stimulation, the breaking of her water, or illicit use of medications).

Nurse and patient advocate Carolyn Rafferty, RN, BSN, answers:» «Mother - friendly» is a term that has been applied to maternity care in hospitals that reflects the best information from all the research available as to how women and families should be treated during labor and birth.

Sue Ann taught us how to practice labor positions that use gravity, such as dancing, rocking and squatting, and she helped us make a list of what to bring to the hospital.

Hospitals are reverting to more natural methods of labor, delivery, and postpartum care as the knowledge and research surroun...

Inclusion criteria were as follows: the study population was women who chose planned home birth at the onset of labor; the studies were from Western countries; the birth attendant was an authorized mid-wife or medical doctor; the studies were published in 1985 or later, with data not older than from 1980; and data on transfer from home to hospital were described.

Meanwhile, I am having a really hard time finding a hospital that will take me now for labor and delivery seeing as I am a «liability» having forgone this ONE test (I am also choosing to forgo RhoGam and the Gestational Diabetes screening, choosing instead to monitor my own blood sugar on my own).