Sentences with phrase «epidural works»

You can see how the epidural works for pain, including complicated labors.

I just assumed that is how all epidurals worked.

With my first, I had problems during labor (don't get me started) that resulted in an epidural (I wasn't progressing and couldn't relax enough to let my body do its job; the epidural worked, I was pushing within 15 minutes of receiving it).

Your blogs about how epidurals work convinced me that if I have the kind of labor pains I had with my first (posterior, nuchal hand, we both ended up fine but it really sucked), I am just going straight for the epidural.

First, it helps to understand what makes an epidural work.

The epidural worked so well that McCaffrey, 25, hopes for a repeat when baby No. 2, Lauren, arrives in a few months.

Not exact matches

For my second birth, I asked the nurse anesthetist to stay with me until I knew the epidural was working properly.

My turn — 39 week elective inductions, early epidurals with both, formula fed, never co-slept (both babies slept in their rooms from birth which were on a different floor from mine), no baby - wearing, and I was back to work at 3 1/2 weeks at a 60 - 100 hour / week job.

But it would really suck to have your epidural not work.

Among the fairly standard labor horror stories of epidurals not working and not quite making it to the hospital is the doctor being all «you're not ready yet.»

Midwives may work for some people, but for me, I prefer an epidural, a doctor, and the bevy of kind nurses hovering over me.

So, after a 20 hour labour with pethidine and the stitch - up from hell (1 1/4 hours of stitching with a local anaesthetic that didn't work, and no epidural available because it was «out of hours» - women in that situation are not seen as a high priority for pain relief!)

So, I wound up being in the hospital for 18 hours before birth, with an epidural that only worked on half of my body (can you say useless?)

I did have a successful epidural and I feel so badly that your friend's didn't work.

But what happens when the epidural doesn't work?

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

I am strong because my epidural stopped working when it became time to push at 30 + plus hours, and I had all back labor with the baby posterior.

Some women define enjoying labor as working actively with contractions, but if that's not you, and epidural can help you remove the pain and let your body work while you do something else.

I had a contraction with the epidural half - working, and said, «Is this all?

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

Sometime as well, the epidural does not work as it was intended to do so.

These bands will definitely work for my «epidural memory loss syndrome», hehe.

While the research is mixed (some studies show that hypnosis reduces the overall use of pain meds during labor, but not epidurals), many women say it's worked wonders during their deliveries.

One of my friends was the only person any of the nurses working that night had ever seen give birth without an epidural.

For the other 95 % of women, the epidural will either work partially or fully for 30 minutes to an hour.

If mom decides she wants to wait until she goes into the last stage of labor (transition) before receiving an epidural, this won't work.

Epidurals can work in a similar way.

And I think about everything I went through during my first labor — the Pitocin and the epidural, the catheter and the blood pressure cuff — and I realize that while it wasn't quite as beautiful and inspiring a scenario, it worked for me, and if I were to do it all over again, I would still choose a medicated birth.

Asked for the epidural and then the bitch didn't work!

Edgerton is also working with various collaborators on NIBIB - funded projects to explore whether epidural stimulation can be used to help patients with paralysis of the upper limbs.

In fact, based on observations from the research, there is strong evidence that with continued advancements of the epidural stimulator, individuals with a complete spinal cord injury will be able to bear weight independently, maintain balance and work towards stepping.

This work builds on previous research at KSCIRC showing benefits of spinal cord epidural stimulation, along with activity - based training, in which individuals with SCI have achieved voluntary movement, standing and stepping, and improved bladder, bowel and sexual function.

Working with human research participants, Hirsch and researchers at the Kentucky Spinal Cord injury Research Center (KSCIRC) at UofL, have found that spinal cord epidural stimulation can safely and effectively elevate blood pressure in individuals with SCI along with chronic hypotension.

Working with human research participants, Hirsch and researchers at the Kentucky Spinal Cord injury Research Center at UofL, have found that spinal cord epidural stimulation can safely and effectively elevate blood pressure in individuals with SCI along with chronic hypotension.

In another project with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, we're also working to create a larger bank of virtual hospital experiences that could include things such as walking into the operating room, learning what it feels like to have an epidural or nerve block, or go into radiology.

(As a side note, I'm smiling in that picture because of the happy drugs they gave me since the epidural didn't work, not because I had a gentle birth!)

Use of «low - dose epidurals versus placebos during the pushing stage of labor did not increase duration of pushing» or the need for a C - section, said Wu, who works at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

I was much more lucid in the first 24 hours after birth in the absence of an epidural, it was easier to accomplish daily tasks, and I was able to work out much sooner.

Numbers of beds, epidurals performed, specialties served, and additional responsibilities are important work details that nicely underscore the skill set of the jobseeker.