Sentences with phrase «in active labour»

She is currently the Canadian Lactation Advisor for CAPPA International, and she also works in the trenches, helping moms and babies establish a good breastfeeding relationship as a Registered Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in an active Labour and Delivery Unit.

Clemmie gained her qualifications at the University of the West of England in 2006 and started a career in midwifery at Southmead Maternity Unit where her she developed an interest in active labour and water birth.

«With close monitoring in active labour, if an abnormality were to arise with the woman, the fetus or the progression of labour, transfer into the hospital can be arranged,» Hatherall says.

One commented that had she been booked for a hospital delivery she would still have had to face a journey while in active labour.

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This has much to do with a historically large and active organized labour voice, especially in textile - producing states, and a more combative media in both markets.

It is believed that retirement age should be the period of rest when one is supposed to be enjoying whatever he had laboured for when in active service.

But poverty is aggravating, terrorism by States and rebels who receive weapons from sources and countries where private arms industries flourish is hyper - active, the molested and downgraded gender and bonded labour see no relief in sight and marginalized Third World peoples and the Fourth World of utter destitution are in despair, with a Fifth World of refugees emerging everywhere with nowhere to go, despite Refugee Laws and the Red Cross.

And all this labour was set in motion by the active, creative awakening of his soul inasmuch as that human soul had been chosen to breathe life into the universe.

He supported the right of Catholics to be active in the newly founded Labour Party and was perhaps over-sympathetic towards the English Modernists — although Fr Vickers is clear that he remained personally orthodox throughout his life.

One observation might, however, swing Labour doubters: despite what the tabloids say about celebrity dads, the real revolution in active fatherhood is taking place among blue - collar workers.

At John and Lizzie's the care is based on Active Birth principles: the idea that women have faster, safer, easier deliveries (and their babies a better birth experience) when they move about in labour and give birth standing or squatting, rather than lying on their backs.

Twelve critical success factors, including «the right attitude, focus, leadership, teamwork, support, and a personal and financial commitment to best practice and continuous quality improvement,» were identified, based on practices at four Ontario hospitals with comparatively low caesarean rates.19 The «right attitude» included taking pride in a low caesarean rate, developing a culture of birth as a normal physiological process, and having a commitment to one to one supportive care during active labour.

Until recently, a Cochrane review on «Active versus expectant management in the third stage of labour» suggested that administration of synthetic oxytocin (Syntocinon ® or Syntometrine ®) is preferred to expectant management — or simply allowing the placenta time to peel away from the uterine lining and to be expelled.

With baby's pulse weakening during monitoring, I was induced at two weeks overdue resulting in a 72 active labour and an emergency c section when baby's head got titled back and firmly stuck.

Jones says: «In the 1960s, the consultant - controlled maternity units introduced a policy of «active management of labour (AML)», which ensured pregnant women lost all power over childbirth.»

Active versus expectant management in the third stage of labour.

Other tools in the toolkit that midwives also referred to included ensuring the woman has adequate nutrition and hydration in labour, keeping the woman active, and homeopathy and hypnotherapy to help the woman to relax and to reduce anxiety.

These included clinical assessment skills in the antenatal period, documentation of instructions given to clients to ensure that midwives could arrive at the birth in a timely fashion, early transport after identification of thick meconium in the amniotic fluid and active management of the third stage of labour for women at risk for postpartum hemorrhage.11

Reasons for emergency transports were the following: avoidance of unattended home birth (1), no supervisor available for a conditional midwife in the process of completing the requirements for general registration (1), fetal heart rate decelerations (7), breech presentation diagnosed in labour (2), active herpes in labour (1), thick meconium in labour (2), second - stage arrest of labour (1), hemorrhage (3), retained placenta (3), repair of episiotomy (2), newborn with respiratory distress (5), newborn with birth asphyxia (2), newborn with distended abdomen (1).

Equally important is the need to change attitudes to birth so that women are encouraged to play a more active part in the birth of their babies instead of being subjected to clinical interventions designed to mitigate the adverse effects of labouring in a starkly unnatural environment.

Labour's challenge is to position the active state and responsible ownership as essential prerequisites of business success in an age of intensive global competition

It was odd praise from a politician who sucked me into active Labour politics as I opposed his short - lived government in the 1970s.

Shirley Williams, who for half a century has been active in Labour, SDLP and Lib Dem party politics, has published her memoir Climbing the Book Shelves: The Autobiography of Shirley Williams (Virago Press # 20).

My determination is that we in the Labour Party should have an integrated approach - developing an «active industrial strategy» for the music industry.

Fabian polling for our «Facing Out» pamphlet suggests there is a group of at least 2.5 million Labour identifiers, active in political engagement outside parties, and interested in participation in Labour activity without becoming members.

Liberal Republicans (Centre Republicans): Alan Milburn, Anthony Giddens (to a large extent), Richard Reeves, Philip Collins Democratic Republicans (Left Republicans): Gordon Brown, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, Jim Knight, The Co-operative Party, Scientists for Labour, James Purnell has flirted with Liberal Republicanism, but may well have shifted to Democratic republicanism, as he proved in his resignation letter in the Times, calling for a more open democracy, a more active state and greater regulation.

During the mid - to late - 1990s, he was politically active for Labour in Islington North, the constituency represented by Jeremy Corbyn, and was selected as Labour candidate to contest St George's Ward for Islington London Borough Council in 1998.

According to Charles Clarke, speaking before Brown moved to clean up MPs» expenses: «It is now absolutely essential for the Prime Minister to take active steps to restore confidence in politics — Labour politics in particular.

Robert Page asks: Instead of skirmishing with the Conservatives and Liberals over «ownership» of the «progressive» label do you think that that the Labour Party should define itself unambiguously as a socialist party which believes that the state has a positive and active role to play in creating a more equal society?

China is playing an increasingly active investment role in Africa, also obtaining large public sector construction projects which are often completed by Chinese labour and so the investment contributes little to local employment.

The fact that anyone would ever simply assumes that the debate about Labour and its leadership is a debate solely or mostly about policy only shows how unusual — well, weird — people active in politics tend to be.

Ballard also became active in the local Labour Party, joining the Fabian Society, and later acting as its local Chairman.

In other words, it could be seen as being not about getting Labour supporters active, but about getting the «right» kind of supporters active.

Henry's Labour replacement, Paul O'Kane, is a councillor for east Renfrewshire Council and an active member of the GMB Union and the Co-operative Party, thus he represents a continuation of the old Labour linkages in the area.

Angela has been an active member of the Labour Party since she first joined aged 17 in 1978 and has since held various positions in the party.

The mainstream practitioners who were active in the years of Harold's premiership all indicate support and admiration for the way he held the Labour party together, sought to drag Britain into the modern era and presided over a series of liberalisation acts including abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of homosexuality, abortion and divorce.

Shirley Williams - 80Still one of the most active peers in the Lords, in 1950 Shirley Williams became the first woman to chair the Oxford University Labour Club.

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

BME voters are more likely to live in safe Labour seats where there may not be an active Conservative Party and statistically they are over-represented in lower socio - economic groups, so you would expect them to be more likely to vote Labour.

He has been active in the Labour movement for decades and fights for working people as a UNISON official.

I do not accept your perspective on my analysis as it did not mention the New Labour Project, nor does it show any knowledge of the Labour Reform Group and Save the Labour Party organisations which were in struggle against New Labour under Blair, and of which I was an active member.

An active supporter of Welsh language use, she wrote in one article: «I would contend that for a Labour supporter being actively pro-Welsh language is a natural part of our DNA, as much as supporting public services, tackling low pay or taking on any other equalities cause».

Brooks is active in the UK's Labour Party and British politics.

For many Labour members, the feeling is that you have to be very active to get involved, there are no quick and easy options, for instance in policy development or candidate selection.

Cable indicated he would be prepared to work with the Labour party too, underlining his left - wing instincts on «redistribution» and the government «having an active role in the economy».

«There does seem to be an atmosphere in this strange place - possibly inevitably, because there's a large number of sexually active people who are present here,» explains Paul Flynn, the veteran Labour MP.

The Liberal Democrats face a squeeze from both main parties; Labour inching back in their urban heartlands and the Tories winning a few seats from them through active lovebombing.

In constituencies where over 28 % of those aged 16 - 74 who are economically active are employed in public administration, education or health, Labour's vote fell on average by 4.7 pointIn constituencies where over 28 % of those aged 16 - 74 who are economically active are employed in public administration, education or health, Labour's vote fell on average by 4.7 pointin public administration, education or health, Labour's vote fell on average by 4.7 points.

«What you've got left is quite small in terms of the number of people that are active in Scottish Labour, and down to 20 % in terms of its public support.

He backed the need to deal with the deficit in the medium - term, but argued that additional infrastructure spending, an active industrial policy and measures to keep the long - term unemployed in touch with the labour market are all vital if growth is to recover quickly.