I actually ended up going with the ol' frozen
bag of water in the freezer trick, and it seems to have done the job!
A whole bunch of friendly folks left comments on that post about using
frozen bags of water to stretch them, and it totally worked!
Other reasons to transfer to the hospital during labor: non-reassuring fetal heart tones, thick meconium and the birth not imminent, malpresentation of the fetus (e.g. footling breech), maternal fever,
broken bag of waters and no labor for an extended amount of time.
The thought of this pesky
bag of waters as the cause of the problem was incentive enough for me to give it a little nudge out.
I felt a
bulging bag of water right inside, but the head was still a few inches up behind my cervix.
«If you wrap a knife in metal, or put something inside a
plastic bag of water, all you see is the shape of the metal covering, or the water — but any large, cold shape would obviously alert a guard for further inspection,» says Huguenin.
A sweep is a vaginal exam in which a health care professional will sweep their finger between the cervix and
bag of waters surrounding your baby.
It may be a surprising turn of event for most political watchers as the incumbent MP, Emmanuel Agyarko deployed the same strategy; distributing
free bags of water to students on the University's campus.
We humans are, in simple terms,
bags of water filled with proteins and prokaryotic bacteria (the bacteria in your body outnumber the cells in your body about 10 to 1).
I was complete, but even though my water had broken earlier in labor, there was apparently a
second bag of waters behind the first that had not broken (I didn't know this was possible either).
But my favourite addition were the rubber goldfish in little
knotted bags of water like you get at the pet shop...
The bottoms of my RD's are pretty dirty from the trip to Wally World, and they're currently in the freezer... filled with almost
frozen bags of water....
An ultrasound determined that I had next to no amniotic fluid left (not good) and an exam revealed that
my bag of waters had ruptured â $ «unbeknownst to me.
Real Life — Sometimes
the bag of waters (amniotic sack) breaks first but not usually.
If
your bag of water is not breaking sometimes your provider will break the amniotic sac to help induce and speed up labor.
Artificial rupture of membranes (breaking
the bag of waters) prior to second stage (the pushing phase)
When an intervention is offered by your care provider, such as artificially breaking
your bag of waters, would you like to discuss it with your partner first?
She opened
my bag of waters and ordered me to have 3 contractions on the right side, 3 on the left, 3 on... I escaped by «having to go» to the toilet.
A good example would be breaking
your bag of waters and wedging your baby in a position that makes a vaginal birth more difficult or impossible, like a posterior baby.
Baby's head didn't budge, but
the bag of water continued to grow / descend.
These can be natural induction methods (e.g. nipple stimulation, castor oil, etc.), medical induction methods (e.g. breaking
the bag of water, Pitocin, etc.) or a combination of induction methods.
The only thing that worked — my midwife coming to my house (we were having a home birth) and breaking
my bag of waters.
The membranes are just another name for the amniotic sac or
bag of waters.
When
the bag of waters breaks, it should be clear.
In the hospital, many caregivers view stalled labor as something that needs to be «corrected» with interventions such as administering the drug Pitocin, artificially breaking
the bag of water, or even cesarean.
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Bag of water that has been broken more than 24 to 36 hours.
Your «
bag of waters» can break spontaneously or your doctor or midwife can rupture the membranes any time before or during labor.
Two waves on all fours and I felt
my bag of waters release!
My water hadn't broken yet either (mind you I knew it didn't necessarily have to), but she thought that perhaps the pressure of
my bag of waters was causing the discomfort in my back.
Jessica did come back and concluded that it was
my bag of waters, but it hadn't burst yet.
Umbilical Cord Prolapse — A prolapse cord can occur with a baby who is still high in the pelvis if
the bag of water breaks with a gush.
My bag of waters was intact but she could feel the baby's head through it.
She decided to break
my bag of waters after a bit of observation, hoping that it would help bring the baby down.
I gradually dilated to a 5, and at that check, my midwife was able to stretch me to a 6, but then I never dilated past that because
my bag of waters was keeping the baby's head from putting direct pressure onto my cervix.
I had no intentions of artificially breaking
my bag of waters but when I had been in labor with an irregular contraction pattern for over 12 hours and hip pain that wouldn't let up, I felt my energy and endurance giving way.
Phrases with «bag of waters»