Not exact matches
It's conclusions about safety
of cytotec use for
induction of full - term
labor: «There was no difference in serious neonatal or maternal mortality between women receiving misoprostol and women
who received prostaglandin E2 or oxytocin; however, most studies were underpowered for this assessment.»
This class will be a blend
of lecture, video, demonstration and practice and will include, but not be limited to: Gestation and Anatomy, Preparing your Body and How to Adapt to Its Changes, Signs, Stages and Emotional Signposts
of Labor, Pain Management Techniques, Understanding Evidence - Based Care, Birth Preference Sheets (Birth Plans), Pain Medication Options,
Labor Support (
who should be at your birth), Understanding Medical Support (Interventions) and
Induction, Cesarean Birth and Prevention and Postpartum Health.
Women
who get induced due to a history
of fast
labors have very successful
inductions.
Obstetrical procedures were more common among women
who had planned in - hospital births than among women
who delivered out
of the hospital (30.4 % vs. 1.5 % for
induction of labor and 26.4 % vs. 1.1 % for augmentation
of labor, P < 0.001 for both comparisons)(Table 3).
But if you are like the majority
of women
who do not have reasons for
induction, the safest option for you and your baby is to wait for
labor to begin on its own.
A review article
of 3 randomized control trials, consisting
of 212 women, found that acupuncture reduced the number
of women
who needed to a medical
induction (33 % versus 54 %), but failed to find a difference in when the women went into
labor.
I have friends
who lost their babies to preventable home birth accidents, attended by negligent midwives, and yet other friends
who have lost babies because they refused
induction of labor against the advice
of their medical provider.
Elective
labor induction is the initiation
of labor for convenience in a person with a term pregnancy
who doesn't medically need the intervention.
Although published series are relatively small, women with a prior cesarean delivery
who undergo
labor induction with prostaglandins (including misoprostol) have been shown to have outcomes that are similar to those women with an unscarred uterus (eg, length
of time until delivery, failed
labor induction, and complication rates)(138 — 143).
Similarly, there is consistent evidence that women
who undergo
labor induction or augmentation are less likely to achieve VBAC than women with fetuses
of the same gestational age in spontaneous
labor without augmentation (45 — 48).
Fit Pregnancy reports first - time mothers
who are induced have higher rates
of cesareans than those
who aren't induced citing a study in which 12 percent
of mothers
who went into
labor on their own needed a C - section while 23.4 percent
of those
who are medically induced did and 23.8 percent
of those
who chose elective
induction did.
Because
of these and other possible risks, an official
WHO recommendation states: «Birth should not be induced for convenience, and the
induction of labor should be reserved for specific medical indications.
Yes, there are special circumstances (induced
labor, for instance, is nothing like normal
labor — but again, the mismanagement
of labor often causes way more
inductions that should be necessary), but for the most part, women
who have the right kind
of support and preparation would find that
labor CAN BE a tremendously strengthening and spiritual experience.