Sentences with phrase «epidural means»

An epidural means a c section or forceps are more likely, as the mother sometimes has a harder time pushing.

For many years, the desire to have an epidural meant that you wouldn't need a childbirth class.

Not exact matches

Based on my two previous births, I thought an epidural would mean a pain free birth.

Rupturing your membranes also puts you on a clock, has a greater chance of cord prolapse meaning emergency, increases your risk of infection and takes away your baby's buffer to the strong contractions caused by Pitocin, your epidural can slow labor, making you unable to move and / or push effectively, doesn't allow for proper fetal descent, you will most likely have a catheter placed to your bladder, increasing risk of bladder infections, and if all else fails, at 5PM, you will have a C / S at 5PM before your baby gets too tired or sick to continue laboring (because the doctor is tired of waiting).

This means that you will be laboring, without pain relief from an epidural.

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.

Which many times means a lot of unnecessary medical intervention: induction, epidural, vacuum and c - section.

Meaning: If you get an epidural, the medication will be measurable in your baby's blood within 10 minutes.

Meaning: epidural anesthesia may harm your baby.

People who have epidurals often must give birth flat on their backs, which means gravity is working against them.

This means that many women may not understand why others choose to use an epidural.

I don't know where this comes from, that if you don't demonize epidurals, it must mean you are against natural delivery.

-- Lora Shinn hopes that every woman has her desired birth — whether that means saying «No, thanks» to the epidural or «More, please.»

Some cater specifically to natural childbirth, which means epidurals and IV meds aren't available.

One study found that women under the care of family physicians with a low mean use of epidurals were less likely to receive monitoring and Pitocin, to deliver by cesarean, and to have their baby admitted to newborn special care.119

Although these older studies used conventional epidurals, the total dose of bupivacaine administered to the mothers (in these studies, mean doses of 61.6 mg, 93 112.7 mg, 94 and 119.8 mg, 95 respectively) was largely comparable to more recent low - dose studies (for example, 67.5 mg, 96 91.1 mg, 97 and 101.1 mg98).

A «birth plan» to me meant a privileged, hypersensitive woman being very loud about the fact that she knew better than the medical professionals who were only reluctantly present before going off to their golf game, obviously trying to prove that she was better than all those sheep moms who just went along with toxic, lazy - people procedures like epidurals and C - sections.

I mean yes, I had a home birth, chose not to get an epidural, and didn't want my kids to have plastic toys.

Some posterior labors are served by an epidural, meaning the pelvic floor relaxes enough for baby to rotate and come out.

I was already dilated to 9 cm; and that meant I could not have an epidural!

For many women, pain management really just means getting the epidural as soon as humanly possible.

In the Consortium on Safe Labor study discussed earlier, although the mean and median duration of the second stage differed by 30 minutes, the 95th percentile threshold was approximately 1 hour longer in women who received epidural analgesia than in those who did not (20).

Because I idealized the perfect birth as «natural,» meaning without pain meds, I felt like I was weak when I begged for an epidural, like I had failed to do the right thing.

These were the options: Plan A she advised getting an epidural; if I couldn't give birth naturally Plan B would happen, and that meant I would have to go under general anaesthetic and have a C - section.

Having bodily autonomy means you can choose to be induced, get an epidural, or even have a planned c - section.

In this blog (Part 1), Dr Buckley explores the impacts of epidural on oxytocin and the flow of labour, and what this might mean for... [Read more...] about Epidurals in Labour

Would you be willing to give up inductions, epidurals or other standard obstetric procedures if it meant a better chance for a vaginal birth?

So everyone is on the same wave length, let's explain what I mean by «natural» and also «epidural.»

In this blog (Part 2), Dr Buckley explores the impacts of epidural on the hormones of labour and birth, and what this might mean for... [Read more...] about Epidurals in Labour (Part 2)

If you were put under general anesthesia after transferring to a hospital from a home birth gone wrong, that means your baby was in so much danger that they didn't even have time to put in a spinal block or epidural before they did your c - section.

Oftentimes, that means little intervention, but sometimes, it means giving an epidural and pitocin or even doing a c - section.

If mom has gotten an epidural she is probably not in much pain anymore, which means she is just laying in the bed waiting for this baby to come.

Okay, so to me, that meant a vaginal birth but with a big old epidural to ease my pain, but still, I had this perfect vision in my head of how my delivery would go.

If you had to have a c - section or an epidural - that means that was needed to have a healthy baby.

For example; an induction often means Oxytocin, which can lead to need to an epidural, and then maybe a fetal heart decel or slow progress happens and then off to the OR for a Cesarean birth.

Emergency care is ~ 1 % which means that most cases in need of transfer non-emergent (augmentation such as pitocin / pain relief such as epidural).

Achieving a powerful, organic birth experience was not as high on my list of priorities as having a comfortable delivery, which in my case meant having an epidural.

most epidurals restrict your movement and mean you are unable to stand or walk during labour, and this may restrict the birthing positions you can try

I was reading a lot about the pros and cons and decided that I will only have an epidural as a means of last resort.

An epidural was the only means of pain control available to the women.

«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.

My first daughter was undiagnosed frank breach which frank means for those who don't know her feet by her ears so bent in half I got to the hospital at 8 cm dyalated and was rushed off to have an epidural and c section.

For me, laboring without medication for as long as I did meant my labor progressed enough that the epidural didn't arrest the process too early, leading to a C - section.

I had an epidural done as my baby had changed potions and wasn't able to be turned which meant unfortunately I had to have a C - section done which meant that I had changed my birthing plan.

«I want women to know that if you've had a cesarean birth, an induction, or an epidural, that doesn't mean you're not going to bond with your baby or you can't love this baby, or any of that.

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.

I was primarily advised by well - meaning friends and family with the first set of phrases in my first pregnancy... and got the epidural.

Regional anesthesia means we will provide local nerve blocks or epidural anesthesia.