Sentences with phrase «avoid epidural»

I have friends who hoped to avoid an epidural and their labors were just too long.

«Patients often cite longer pushing as a reason they are trying to avoid epidural,» she explained.

Avoid an epidural in early labor which can make it more difficult for your baby to move through your pelvis and turn into a favorable position for birth.

I had no thoughts of home birth when I fell pregnant with my first baby, but I knew I really wanted to avoid an epidural and a c - section.

it's that it CONCENTRATES the crazy and turns into a contest to see who is the most hardcore - so maybe you are a reasonable person who is afraid of needles and would like to avoid an epidural, so you google unmedicated childbirth, and you find a message board, and before you know it, you're delivering your baby while swinging from a trapeze over a bed of knives because you trust birth that much and everyone else is a big fat poser.

If you are looking to avoid an epidural, water birth is something that has been shown to decrease the need for pain medications.

, have the best chance of avoiding an epidural and / or a c - section, and be given much more time to labour - time, as it turned out, that I didn't need.

Not exact matches

Aside from healthy mom and healthy baby, Celeste Bancos» other birth goals were of to avoid getting an epidural, and to not whine..

If for some reason a woman has 2 day labor, she would be exhausted and epidural main give some relieve, and help such woman avoid cesarean section.

And though that certainly doesn't mean that women should have an epidural, or that it will definitely improve your birth experience (plenty of women have great experiences with unmedicated births, too), it does highlight the fact that there may be real value in choosing an epidural — and that there doesn't seem to be any reason to avoid it if you actually want one.

Even with a platonic ideal epidural, a few hours of 10/10 pain is just not something I feel up to repeating if I can avoid it.

I have a friend in the US who really didn't want to have a natural childbirth but went that way to avoid having to pay $ 1, 000 for an epidural which wasn't covered by her health plan.

Women who wish to avoid the use of epidurals are advised to choose carers and models of care that promote, support, and understand the principles and practice of natural and undisturbed birth.

Some women, as a general rule, prefer to avoid medications unless they're absolutely necessary, and so they choose a birth without epidural.

For this reason I would like to avoid interventions such as internal monitoring and epidural / spinal anesthesia unless absolutely necessary and would like to maintain freedom to move around as I wish as much as possible as I have a fear of feeling «restrained».

Furthermore, I wanted to avoid pain management drugs and experience birth naturally to avoid risks to my laboring hormones, breastfeeding, and body associated with interventions like epidurals.

I delivered them vaginally (heck yeah I had the epidural — whoever created the epidural is in heaven holding hands with G - d), and I avoided a c - section and I'm grateful.

I still think that childbirth is very painful and there is definitely no shame in an epidural, but for those women who, for whatever reason, would like to avoid that, I preferred that book far and away over the Hypnobabies home study course.

Regenexx has many non-surgical platelet and stem cell based procedures developed to help patients avoid spine surgery and high dose epidural steroid side effects.

«Natural» also meant I wanted an unmedicated birth, ideally avoiding unnecessary antibiotics, labor stimulants like Pitocin (a synthetic oxytocin) and even an epidural, which numbs the lower body and slows contractions, increasing rates of C - section.

Sometimes, when all other options are exhausted, an epidural can actually help a mom avoid a c - section, which is a very good thing.

Natural birth by definition means birthing without drugs or surgery, so even if an epidural is avoided and a vaginal birth achieved, the birth was not entirely natural.

Regenexx has many non-surgical platelet and stem cell based procedures developed to help patients avoid spine surgery and high dose epidural steroid side effects.