Sentences with phrase «immersion for labor and birth»
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Not much is mentioned again about the technique until the 1960's when a Russian scientist, Igor Charcovsky, began experimenting with the use of warm water immersion for women in labor to see how it affected their labor, the birth, and newborn behavior.
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I will need to read the paper more closely to comment on the relationship between immersion and duration of labor; in a prior study I found that women who had longer labors were more likely to be removed from the water for medical reasons and so would never be counted in the water birth group.2