Sentences with phrase «known as epidural»

Darrel made the decision to have electrodes surgically implanted over his spinal cord in 2016 to test out a treatment known as epidural stimulation in the hopes of improving some of the side effects.

Neuraxial anesthesia involves injecting medication into fatty tissue that surrounds the nerve roots in the spine (known as an epidural) or into the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the spinal cord.

It doesn't have to — I know — because we have these wonderful drugs known as epidurals, but for me and my second baby, I wanted to do it naturally.

Not exact matches

You know, there are side effects to epidurals, such as breathing problems for the newborn, not to mention the way it increases the chance of other interventions.

Likewise, if you know that, hey, I want an epidural as soon as possible and to let my provider choose what's best, you may not enjoy a provider who specializes in home births.

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Maybe I was inexperienced, but I knew I came from a long line of women — as we all have — who had given birth without narcotics and epidurals.

As epidural analgesia has been shown in randomised trials to reduce the likelihood of a normal vaginal delivery this could contribute to the variation in normal delivery rates seen.28 Indeed, medicalisation of the environment could be the dominant effect in the United Kingdom, over-riding potential benefits of continuity and «knowing your midwife.»

First off even though epidurals are usually made up of the synthetic opiate Fentanyl and Bupivacaine, Bupivacaine (as anyone with any knowledge of pharmaceutical or chemical names should know) is a local anesthetic not even remotely similar to an opiate.

If you arrive at the hospital before you're in active labor and you know you're going to want an epidural, you can ask the anesthesiologist to place the catheter as soon as you're settled in your bed.

What do you know... Normal birth is a vaginal birth without any evil interventions, with pain with good purpose, and a midwife holding your hand, basically acting as epidural.

A birth plan is designed to let your doctor and the hospital know your wishes in regards to your plans for when labor begins (such as, no epidural or episiotomy).

For as long as I can remember, I always knew that, when my day to give birth came, I'd want that epidural as fast as possible.

Intervention leads to intervention, as is well known by moms who go in for inductions and wind up with Pitocin, their water broken, an ineffective epidural, a forceps attempt at delivery, an episiotomy, and ultimately a C - section for «emergency» reasons.

I wanted — no, I needed — a pain - blocking epidural and viewed women who eschewed them as trying to be unnecessarily heroic.

Third and last learn your doctor or midwife's inductions, C section and epidural ways, if any of these are higher than you are comfortable with check out other options, know the situations of the hospital you planned to deliver as well.

As far as I know, an epidural is not a narcotic, and a C - section might be safer for me... my mother had two, I am very tiny and small - boned, etcAs far as I know, an epidural is not a narcotic, and a C - section might be safer for me... my mother had two, I am very tiny and small - boned, etcas I know, an epidural is not a narcotic, and a C - section might be safer for me... my mother had two, I am very tiny and small - boned, etc..

I did a lot of preparation ahead of time, and from previous dramatic injuries I am known as someone with really high pain tolerance... However, I went past - term and needed to be induced, contractions were then constant and more painful than I could have imagined, dilation was fast, my perineum did not have much chance to stretch on its own, labor stalled when pushing should have begun, and I ended up with an epidural, pitocin to re-start contractions, and an emergency episiotomy.

A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.

As we know, one intervention like Pitocin can lead to another intervention like an epidural, which could ultimately lead to a c - section.

While your hospital birth class may have been pleasant, mine was exactly as Mama Natural described in this post — they even brought out an epidural needle for us to pass around so we'd know what would «most likely» be used on us.