Sentences with phrase «for labor augmentation»

Women who planned a home birth had fewer episiotomies, pitocin for labor augmentation, and epidurals.

Oxytocin regimen for labor augmentation, labor progression, perinatal outcomes.

Not exact matches

Even though the ACOG practice bulletin notes that induction and augmentation remains an option for those undergoing a trial of labor, many physicians refuse to include these in their personal practice guidelines.

And BTW when I practiced as a Doula, most O.b s were well aware of and approved nipple stimulation for augmentation of a stalled labor.

Obstetrical procedures were more common among women who had planned in - hospital births than among women who delivered out of the hospital (30.4 % vs. 1.5 % for induction of labor and 26.4 % vs. 1.1 % for augmentation of labor, P < 0.001 for both comparisons)(Table 3).

However, if the mom wasn't scheduled for surgery or any labor augmentation, she could still be pregnant nearly a month after her «due date,» which may have been what her boss was counting on.

A prospective study of the progress of labor in 220 nulliparous women and 99 multiparous women who spontaneously entered labor evaluated the benefit of prolonging oxytocin augmentation for an additional 4 hours (for a total of 8 hours) in patients who were dilated at least 3 cm and had unsatisfactory progress (either protraction or arrest) after an initial 4 - hour augmentation period (21).

The use of oxytocin for augmentation of contractions, separate from induction of labor, during TOLAC has been examined in several studies.

Labor may not naturally accelerate on its own (active phase) until 5 cm of dilation and introducing interventions like oxytocin augmentation or performing a cesarean for failure to progress when the mother's or baby's condition is stable is not recommended.

A large multicenter study of women attempting TOLAC (n = 33,699) also showed that augmentation or induction of labor was associated with an increased risk of uterine rupture when compared with spontaneous labor (1.4 % for induction with prostaglandins with or without oxytocin, 1.1 % for oxytocin alone, 0.9 % for augmented labor, and 0.4 % for spontaneous labor).

Planned out - of - hospital birth also had a statistically significant association with higher rates for 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 7, neonatal seizures, neonatal ventilator support, maternal blood transfusion, and unassisted vaginal delivery but with lower rates of both admission to neonatal intensive care units and obstetrical interventions, including induction and augmentation of labor, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery, and severe perineal lacerations.

When you have a doula present, the studies show that your need for augmentation of labor goes down 31 %.