Sentences with phrase «like episiotomy»

Higher likelihood of interventions like episiotomy, instrumental delivery, cs (and some outcomes that it seems only NCB zealots passionately care about like continuous monitoring, or epidurals).

You start to hear terms that you may have never heard before, words like episiotomy (avoid one if at all possible) and doula (get one if at all possible).

What about other interventions that potentially ruin women's lives like episiotomies that kill sex lives.

Sometimes benefits clearly outweigh risks, like vitamin K. Sometimes they don't, like episiotomies, which are now performed much less often now that the evidence (gathered by obstetricians) shows that they are not as beneficial as once thought.

Since I wanted a home birth, my midwife also came to my house for one of our visits & we got to discuss how I wanted to labour, who I wanted present at the birth, what my ideal situation would be as well as what my preferences were for things like episiotomies (no thank you!)

Not exact matches

You will want to google terms like «episiotomy» and «epidural.»

The man who delivered my son was an arrogant asshole, rolling his eyes at me when he didn't like the way I was pushing and shaking his head and sighing heavily when I refused the episiotomy.

Because they perceive that medical staff are too quick to push interventions like c - section, induction, and episiotomy on them.

Like any freshly - repaired wound, the site of an episiotomy will take time to heal, usually seven to 10 days.

I didn't like the idea of drugs, or forceps, or an episiotomy (shiver) and I dreaded the thought of a caesarean.

If women knew an episiotomy was likely to be carried out like that I think you're right that more would refuse.

It's not like she had a c - section / huge episiotomy / horrific induction / preemie in the NICU / etc.»

Like Jen pointed out, recovery from a c - section is much worse than from an episiotomy (which I had — one of the compromises from my l * st).

I had an episiotomy and I think the pain medication, they put me on, was just, I'm really sensitive to stuff, so I was just, take me about two weeks to be able to take care of myself with the loneliness, like tiny infant, like when I think about the first couple weeks with him, the most positive I think about is sitting in my glider after I've nursed him, and that feeling of that little head on your chest.

I came to learn that other common hospital interventions like forceps use and episiotomy were surprisingly uncommon and seen as unnecessary in home and birth center births.

She was determined not to give birth in a hospital, though, because her obstetrician, like many others at the time, almost always performed episiotomies — surgical incisions between the vagina and the anus — on first - time mothers.