Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a bacterium that can live in our bodies quite harmlessly but it can pose a problem for pregnant women because of the risk of passing it to your baby around
labour and delivery which can cause serious infection.
Not exact matches
I think you are right that the key is to ask early on — however I didn't even get the chance to ask for anything as by the time they actually cleared a
delivery room (having finally decided not to transfer me by ambulance to another hospital) I was ready to push (didn't even get gas
and air
which I would quite like to have tried)
and they will try to discourage you coming in until well into
labour (
which is fine if you have a longish
labour but not if short like me).
Induction of
Labour: * higher rates of Caesarean Section * increased risk of your baby being admitted to NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) * increased risk of forceps or vacuum (assisted delivery) * contractions may be stronger than a spontaneous labour * your labour is no longer considered «low risk» — less choices in where and how you birth, restricted birth positions, continuous monitoring CTG, time limits for which to labo
Labour: * higher rates of Caesarean Section * increased risk of your baby being admitted to NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) * increased risk of forceps or vacuum (assisted
delivery) * contractions may be stronger than a spontaneous
labour * your labour is no longer considered «low risk» — less choices in where and how you birth, restricted birth positions, continuous monitoring CTG, time limits for which to labo
labour * your
labour is no longer considered «low risk» — less choices in where and how you birth, restricted birth positions, continuous monitoring CTG, time limits for which to labo
labour is no longer considered «low risk» — less choices in where
and how you birth, restricted birth positions, continuous monitoring CTG, time limits for
which to
labourlabour in.
There's also an impact on
delivery,
and it automatically means a big tick on the «will give birth on the
labour ward» section of my medical notes,
which is where I'm interested to see if there's an alternative this time.
The «redeeming» home birth Yet Hatherall finds there is «another group of women who have previously had an experience in the hospital (usually related to birth)
which has been traumatic for them,
and they want to be in control of their experience» for their subsequent
labour and delivery.
For those who don't know this is the scenario in
which medical staff, through their interventions (including but not limited to breaking her waters
and an augmentation of
labour we hadn't consented to) to «encourage» birth in a fixed timescale
which suited them
and the hospital actually end up having a counter-productive effect ending up slowly but surely in an emergency c - section in our case, or an instrumental
delivery.
The data
which cover all 19 maternity units gives an overall picture of c section rates, inductions of
labour, instrumental
deliveries and epidural use.
I don't know why I respond to the irrational, but I
delivery about 200 babies a year, with a primary Cesarean section rate of 12 % (including women who choose an elective cesarean
delivery,
which is their right as AUTONOMOUS HUMAN BEINGS),
and deliver about 1 baby per week, about 40 - 50 per year, to women who have NO interventions in
labour.
MAS can happen before, during, or after
labour and delivery when a newborn inhales a mixture of meconium (the early stool passed by a newborn soon after birth)
and amniotic fluid (the fluid in
which the baby floats inside the amniotic sac).
The
delivery of new policies
which will solve the problems
which Labour have introduced will be the real nuts
and bolts of success; not the misgivings of the floating electorate.