Vacuum extractors are sometimes used by OB - GYNs to assist a mother who is having problems pushing
the fetus from her birth canal.
Not exact matches
According to the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, and cytomegalovirus can be passed
from mother to infant during delivery when the infant passes through an infected
birth canal, while HIV and CMV, can infect a
fetus before
birth during your pregnancy.
While some
birth traumas occur naturally as a result of the physical pressures on a
fetus from the mother's contractions and the
fetus's passage through the
birth canal, other childbirth injuries are caused by the negligence of medical practitioners during a mother's pregnancy or the labor and delivery stages of childbirth.
Oxygen loss can stem
from several different problems, including uncorrected issues with the umbilical cord, damage that occurs to the placenta, or
from when the
fetus becomes stuck in the
birth canal.