While medical induction can be necessary, many of these cases are simply elective and induction alters the important and delicate hormones that
occur during labor and birth.
Not exact matches
OB - GYN Dr. Christiane Northrup, midwife Ina May Gaskin,
and childbirth educator Debra Pascali - Bonaro all agree that under the right circumstances, i.e. when a woman is relaxed (
and in my opinion very comfortable with her body),
and due to the huge hormonal changes that
occur in the body
during labor, a kind of
birth ecstasy is possible.
Epidurals lower the mother's production of oxytocin, 8 or stop its normal rise
during labor.9 The effect of spinals on oxytocin release is even more marked.10 Epidurals also obliterate the maternal oxytocin peak that
occurs at
birth 11 — the highest of a mother's lifetime — which catalyses the final powerful contractions of
labor and helps mother
and baby to fall in love at first meeting.
With the many unknowns that can
occur during childbirth, many women feel comforted by having a
birth plan that expresses her desired wishes for
labor, delivery
and postpartum care.
It generally includes fetal deaths toward the end of pregnancy, deaths
during labor and birth,
and deaths that
occur during the first week of life.
Childbirth classes prepare expecting families for the challenges, joys,
and questions that will inevitably
occur during labor,
birth,
and postpartum.
A
birth injury can be any type of injury that
occurs during pregnancy,
labor and delivery or shortly after childbirth.
A
birth injury is a personal injury that
occurs during the process of
labor and delivery.
A
birth injury can be any type of injury that
occurred during pregnancy,
labor and delivery or shortly after
birth.
Birth injuries are physical injuries to newborn babies that occur during pregnancy, labor and delivery, or shortly after b
Birth injuries are physical injuries to newborn babies that
occur during pregnancy,
labor and delivery, or shortly after
birthbirth.
While some
birth traumas
occur naturally as a result of the physical pressures on a fetus from the mother's contractions
and the fetus's passage through the
birth canal, other childbirth injuries are caused by the negligence of medical practitioners
during a mother's pregnancy or the
labor and delivery stages of childbirth.
Brachial plexus palsy injuries may also
occur as a result of medical malpractice
during the
labor and delivery stages of a child's
birth, even in the absence of medical negligence
during a mother's pregnancy.
However, what a
birth injury lawyer is interested in is to know whether the injuries
occurred during labor and delivery or not.
Medical negligence or malpractice leading to a child's brachial plexus palsy
birth injury may
occur during the care of the mother
during her pregnancy or
during the
labor and delivery stages of the
birth of her child.
A
birth injury happens
during the
labor and delivery process
and is usually the result of a medical mistake that
occurs while the baby is being born.