Sentences with phrase «medication at a home birth»

What happens if I want pain medication at a home birth?

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More and more women and families are turning away from the currently - standard hospital birth and back to having their babies at home the way we have for most of history, choosing to go to hospitals and obstetricians only if there is some specific medication

Whether your ideal birth is in a large hospital with an epidural or medication free in a birth center or even at home, you want a provider that understands your wants / needs and aligns closely with your ideal birth plan.

For women that are typical clients of IMG who birth at home, or even those in other settings who do not want medication, I feel this is a reasonable method to initiate or enhance labor contractions.

2) She gave birth to her son Kingsley medication - free at home in the bedroom, in a giant tub, in under 3 hours.

The problem I see is that direct entry midwives in the United States will often attend home births that do not fit these criteria; while insisting that home birth is at least as safe as hospital birth, many will attend twin births, breech births, births after 41 weeks, births of women who have pre-existing or pregnancy - induced disease, births after two or more previous caesarean sections, and births of women whose labor has been jump - started rather than begun spontaneously (whether by herbs, prolonged nipple stimulation, the breaking of her water, or illicit use of medications).

Honestly, giving birth at a hospital with pain medication is far more about keeping a mother comfortable than an all natural birth at home is.

Whether we are at home or at the birth center, emergency medications are available and a hospital transport plan is in place should it become necessary.

Statistically speaking, it was pretty likely that that we'd both survive without major complications, whether or not I chose to have any pain medication and whether I gave birth at home, at a birth center, or at a hospital.

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(borrowed from Dr Kitty) Breech Twins and higher order multiples Previous CS Pre-Eclampsia Placenta praevia Cervical incompetence Previous late stillbirth Previous premature birth Grand multiparty Age under 18 Age over 35 Smoking Drug use Severe mental health issue Epilepsy Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Gestational diabetes Asthma GBS positive Abnormal antibodies Transplant recipient Congenital heart disease Known foetal abnormality Immunosuppressive medication MS Physical disability Intellectual disability Hypothyroidism Hyperthyroidism Previous shoulder dystocia Previous 3rd or 4th degree tear Sickle Cell anaemia BMI under 18 or over 35 at conception Previous massive PPH APH in current pregnancy HIV / AIDS Hepatitis B or C Active TB IUGR Oligohydramnios Polyhydramnios Child previously removed from custody because of abuse Uterine abnormalities such as uterine septum or double uterus Previous uterine surgery for fibroids Chronic renal problems Hypertension Auto immune condition Previous stroke or blod clot Cancer Domestic violence or abusive home Prisoners Homeless women

More and more women and families are turning away from the currently - standard hospital birth and back to having their babies at home the way we have for most of history, choosing to go to hospitals and obstetricians only if there is some specific medication