Sentences with phrase «forceps look»

Forceps look like a large pair of metal spoons or tongs, and your doctor will position them around your baby's head.

Not exact matches

And while I giggled over the fact that the forceps in the birthing class looked like salad tongs and made Soylent Green jokes in the breastfeeding class («Formula is made of PEEEOPLE!»)

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).

A forceps delivery involves inserting a special metal instrument into the woman that looks like large spoons or tongs to help pull a baby out.

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

(We were looking at a picture of a baby being pulled out by forceps)

They used forceps and Grandma said my Uncle looked like he'd been beaten up, he was so badly bruised.