Sentences with phrase «less forceps deliveries»
In fact, compared to women who have standard hospital deliveries, those who hire doulas have half the chance of undergoing a cesarean section; experience less forceps deliveries; and have labors that are reduced in length by a quarter.
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Research has found that women who have continuous one - on - one support during labor tend to use pain medication less often, have slightly shorter labors, and are less likely to have a c - section or a forceps or vacuum - assisted delivery.
Today we are still using this state law and giving babies vitamin K routinely, despite the fact that forceps deliveries have changed and occur less frequently because it still provides benefits to babies.
They were less likely to have had their labors induced or augmented by medications or to have had cesarean sections, forceps or vacuum extractor deliveries.
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 labour in.
Having a vacuum - assisted delivery increases your risk of tears in your vagina, perineum, and anal sphincter, though less so than with a forceps delivery.
Reduced risk of interventions — studies have found that doula assisted births have 50 percent less chance of caesarean section, 40 percent less risk of a forceps delivery and 60 percent reduction in the use of epidural pain medication.
It found that births attended by «continuous doula support» — compared to those that weren't — had «lower use of epidural analgesia, less pitocin, fewer mothers developing fever, fewer forceps or vacuum deliveries, and an extremely low number of cesarean deliveries,» making doula support a relatively «risk - free intervention.»