Sentences with phrase «because labour and delivery»

«After the negative experiences at the hospital, I became a doula and attended numerous home births and hospital births, so I felt 100 - per - cent safe for my own home birth because labour and delivery were no longer scary for me.

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Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a bacterium that can live in our bodies quite harmlessly but it can pose a problem for pregnant women because of the risk of passing it to your baby around labour and delivery which can cause serious infection.

It appears to me that they arrive at this conclusion because they lump things like labour augmentation, c / s and instrumental delivery into «complications and bad outcomes.»

Other western practices that may contribute to PPH include the use of oxytocin for induction and augmentation (speeding up labour) 28 29 episiotomy or perineal trauma, forceps delivery, caesarean and previous caesarean (because of placental problems - see Hemminki30).

Your spouse and the hospital staff will have less pressure in the labour and delivery room because the doula is there to assist.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.