Sentences with phrase «by ventouse»

Your baby's head may look slightly out of shape if your baby was delivered by ventouse or forceps.

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The first was more traumatic, due to a failed ventouse (vacuum extraction) and the anguish of not being able to latch my baby on to breastfeed, followed by six months of using nipple shields.

If the baby becomes distressed (this is detected by changes in the baby's heart rate or the presence of meconium, the baby's first stool) but it is already moving down the birth canal, forceps or Ventouse will usually be preferred to a caesarean section; if the baby is not moving down the birth canal and is becoming distressed, a caesarean section may be recommended.

Normal birth: defined by the Maternity Care Working Party14 as birth without any of: induction of labour; epidural or spinal analgesia; general anaesthetic; episiotomy; forceps, ventouse, or caesarean section

We used reliable methods to assess the quality of the evidence and looked at seven key outcomes: preterm birth (birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy); the risk of losing the baby in pregnancy or in the first month after birth; spontaneous vaginal birth (when labour was not induced and birth not assisted by forceps; caesarean birth; instrumental vaginal birth (births using forceps or ventouse); whether the perineum remained intact, and use of regional analgesia (such as epidural).

Ventouse probably wouldn't work because the baby was too high in the birth canal, and I'd heard enough horror stories about the damage caused by high forceps.