Sentences with phrase «assisted vaginal delivery»

Compared with women who planned a hospital birth with a midwife or physician in attendance, those who planned a home birth were significantly less likely to experience any of the obstetric interventions we assessed, including electronic fetal monitoring, augmentation of labour, assisted vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery and episiotomy (Table 3).

Women in the planned home - birth group were significantly less likely than those who planned a midwife - attended hospital birth to have obstetric interventions (e.g., electronic fetal monitoring, relative risk [RR] 0.32, 95 % CI 0.29 — 0.36; assisted vaginal delivery, RR 0.41, 95 % 0.33 — 0.52) or adverse maternal outcomes (e.g., third - or fourth - degree perineal tear, RR 0.41, 95 % CI 0.28 — 0.59; postpartum hemorrhage, RR 0.62, 95 % CI 0.49 — 0.77).

A forceps delivery is a type of assisted vaginal delivery.

«The computer - generated randomization sequence included stratification for delivery type (vaginal delivery, forceps - or vacuum - assisted vaginal delivery, or cesarean section).»

For the first days after you give birth, you may not feel an urge to pee, especially if you had a prolonged labor, a forceps or vacuum - assisted vaginal delivery, or an epidural.

Larger babies may increase the risk of needing an assisted vaginal delivery or a C - section as they may experience shoulder dystocia — getting a shoulder stuck behind your pelvic bone during birth.

Mothers whose babies are face - up at birth tend to push longer, more commonly need Pitocin to stimulate contractions, and have a significantly higher risk of having an assisted vaginal delivery or a c - section.

In an assisted vaginal delivery, your healthcare practitioner uses either a vacuum device or forceps to help your baby out of the birth canal.

They really are not skilled beyond that so if you try and force them to do more assisted vaginal deliveries, you're going to end up with a lot of morbidity and mortality.

Not exact matches

Dr. Lane had the pleasure of managing three simulated vaginal breech births as the primary midwife, assisting at three more, and observing an additional 86 vaginal breech birth deliveries.

This type of tear can occur in any type of vaginal birth, though it's more common with an assisted delivery.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4 percent of vaginal deliveries in 2011 were assisted by vacuum and 1 percent were assisted by forceps.

Although it may sound a bit frightening, in experienced hands an assisted delivery is considered safe as long as your baby's head is low enough in your birth canal and there are no other problems that would complicate a vaginal delivery.

A large population - based study from Canada found that the risk of severe maternal morbidities ---- defined as hemorrhage that requires hysterectomy or transfusion, uterine rupture, anesthetic complications, shock, cardiac arrest, acute renal failure, assisted ventilation, venous thromboembolism, major infection, or in - hospital wound disruption or hematoma ---- was increased threefold for cesarean delivery as compared with vaginal delivery (2.7 % versus 0.9 %, respectively)(7).

Women in the hospital group were more likely to have interventions such as labour augmentation, assisted vaginal births or cesarean deliveries.