Learn about alternatives to
induction of labor as well as the types of induction used.
Not exact matches
Some common triggers, according to the Birth Trauma Association, are: lengthy
labor or short and very painful
labor,
induction, poor pain relief, feelings
of loss
of control, high levels
of medical intervention, traumatic or emergency deliveries (e.g. emergency cesarean section), impersonal treatment or problems with staff attitudes, not being listened to, lack
of information or explanation, lack
of privacy and dignity, fear for baby's safety, stillbirth, birth injuries to the baby, NICU stay, poor postpartum care, previous trauma (such
as sexual abuse, domestic violence, trauma with a previous birth).
Topics covered in our two - day Childbirth Education intensive include: gestation and anatomy; nutrition; preparing your body and how to adapt to its changes; birth plans;
labor support; your partner
as a coach; stages
of labor; interventions;
inductions; C - sections; breathing, relaxation, and pain management techniques; breastfeeding, newborn procedures; and postpartum health.
If you've undergone
induction of labor or gone into
labor on your own but your baby will not deliver for some reason (such
as a disparity between the size
of your baby's head and the size
of your pelvis) you may require a C - section.
Proponents
of birthing
as a non-medical event sometimes show natural birth pictures and natural birth videos where
laboring women are strapped onto a special
labor table or undergo procedures they don't really want like an unnecessary c - section or
induction.
We sought to investigate a situation in which the woman had an appointment to undergo a nonurgent
labor induction at term whether the couple can be persuaded to have vaginal sexual intercourse
as a natural method
of promoting the onset
of labor.
According to the American Congress
of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, while home birth is associated with fewer maternal interventions compared to a planned hospital birth (such
as labor induction and c - sections), it holds more than twice the risk for perinatal death — or death within the first week
of life.
There are even some protocols to use nipple stimulation
as a form
of induction of labor.
Hospital providers, she said, would likely think about what they could do to reduce the rate
of unnecessary interventions, such
as C - sections or
labor induction.
Our classes cover the benefits and risks
of common interventions such
as epidurals, narcotic pain medication,
labor induction and augmentation, cesarean section, episiotomy, and others.
Class will include: Gestation and anatomy, nutrition, preparing your body and how to adapt to the changes, birth plans,
labor support, your partner
as a coach, stages
of labor, interventions,
inductions, C - sections, breathing, relaxation, pain management techniques, breastfeeding, newborn procedures, and postpartum health.
As the pregnancy progresses, if other circumstances arise that may change the risks or benefits
of TOLAC (eg, need for
labor induction), these should be addressed.
Several hospital accreditation groups, such
as Leapfrog and JCAHO, have introduced incentives for hospitals to reduce the number
of elective
labor inductions before 40 weeks.
Unless it is the last resort, avoid medical intrusions such
as labor induction, routine IV, delivery assisted by use
of forceps, C - section, vacuum extraction, and episiotomy (rarely used nowadays).
In reporting their perinatal statistics, the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, where active management originated, defines
labor as normal even when it includes one or more
of the following invasive interventions: amniotomy,
induction, augmentation, epidural block, and / or eplsiotomy.
In a study presented today at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, researchers unveiled findings that suggest that
induction of labor at 39 weeks
of gestation among healthy, first - time mothers reduces the rate
of cesarean birth
as compared to expectant management among the same population.
This went on for the next half - hour, the
inductions of sickness coming and going at an ever - quickening pace,
as if I was entering into the advanced stages
of labor.