Sentences with phrase «including episiotomies»

Women are more likely to experience spontaneous vaginal birth; experience fewer interventions including episiotomies and instrumental births and are more likely to be satisfied with their care.

This birth included an episiotomy, someone breaking my water, and tons of people all up in my business, including trying to turn the baby.

Not exact matches

Her work in systematic reviews has consistently addressed tough topics and has included documenting harms of episiotomy, the limitations of data about outcomes of fetal surgery, inconsistencies in results of programs designed to reduce use of cesarean, marginal effectiveness of medications for overactive bladder, and the burden on cervical cancer prevention programs introduced by liquid cytology collection for pap testing.

In Spain, obstetric care includes routine enemas, pubic shaving, and episiotomy, procedures that are not evidence based and which ignore the WHO's guidelines on the care of women in labour.

Ina May Gaskin's C - section statistics over 40 years: 1.7 % American hospital C - section statistics: 32 % not including routine episiotomy and so on... Oh yes, I know who I would trust for my child's birth... And if the price of an intact body and a peaceful birth was «gentle stimulation» I would accept it with no hesitation... Of course I live in France where obstetric violence is the norm and home birth nearly considered as criminal by the establishment, but where puritanism is long gone (thank God)... You may remove this post as you did for my previous one... It's OK we've got lots of you this side of the Atlantic telling us what's good or bad for us and we trust them less and less.

Other western practices that may contribute to PPH include the use of oxytocin for induction and augmentation (speeding up labour) 28 29 episiotomy or perineal trauma, forceps delivery, caesarean and previous caesarean (because of placental problems - see Hemminki30).

The planned home birth outcomes included much lower rates of epidural, episiotomy, and assisted delivery, and cesarean section.

Their particular concern is the «trends towards excessive, unnecessary, or inappropriate use of obstetric interventions» (p. 2178), including unnecessary ultrasound examinations, routine electronic fetal monitoring, routine episiotomy, high rates of labour induction and augmentation, and non-medically indicated CS.

No routine medical interventions (including IV fluids, epidural, episiotomy, continuous EFM, etc.)?

Compared with women who planned a hospital birth with a midwife or physician in attendance, those who planned a home birth were significantly less likely to experience any of the obstetric interventions we assessed, including electronic fetal monitoring, augmentation of labour, assisted vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery and episiotomy (Table 3).

Medical intervention rates included epidural (4.7 %), episiotomy (2.1 %), forceps (1.0 %), vacuum extraction (0.6 %), and caesarean section (3.7 %); these rates were substantially lower than for low risk US women having hospital births.

Some of the astonishing statistics include, a 50 % reduction in use of pain medication, about a 30 % faster than average first stage of labor, and a significant reduction in the use of an epidural, forceps, vacuum extraction, an episiotomy, and likelihood of a surgical birth.

«A number of observational studies and randomized trials, however, showed that routine episiotomy is associated with an increased incident of anal sphincter and rectal tears,» write the authors of Williams Obstetrics (23rd edition, p. 401, their emphasis), including a four to sixfold risk of fecal or flatus incontinence.

Interventions — including referral, medication, and episiotomy — were more common in primiparous than parous women, confirming the need to consider these women separately.

The suggested uses include applying a ground - up oak gall paste to an episiotomy cut (the surgical cut between the vagina and anus sometimes made during childbirth), and boiling the oak galls to create a feminine wash.

pre and post pregnancy issues including labor and delivery preparation, pain, leakage, bulging and scarring from c - sections, tearing or episiotomy

There are numerous reasons for post-partum pain and incontinence; however, some common explanations include: weakened muscles, scar tissue development from episiotomies or tears, prolapse and hormonal changes.