Sentences with phrase «of labour and delivery»

Dates fruit consumption during late pregnancy has been shown to positively affect the outcome of labour and delivery without adverse effect on the mother and child.»

the time of labour and delivery) factors that may be related to a mother's difficulty with establishing a breastfeeding relationship, if this is what she is choosing, should be investigated in order to help restore a mother's confidence in her ability to establish and continue breastfeeding.

Not exact matches

This creating out of passion and love, the carrying, the seemingly - never - ending - waiting, the knitting - together - of - wonder - in - secret - places, the pain, the labour, the blurred line between joy and «someone please make it stop,» the «I can't do it» even while you're in the doing of it, the delivery of new life in blood and hope and humanity?

This creating out of passion and love, this carrying, this seemingly - never - ending - waiting, this knitting - together - of - wonder - in - secret - places, this pain, this labour, this blurred line between joy and «please make it stop,» this feeling of «I can't do it» and it's just too much, this delivery in blood and hope and humanity?

The researchers concluded that date fruit consumption «in the last 4 weeks before labour significantly reduced the need for induction and augmentation of labour, and produced a more favourable, but non-significant, delivery outcome.

A study carried out by researchers at Jordan University was published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology investigated the effect of eating dates on labour and delivery outcomes.

There's more information on how to prepare siblings for the birth of a new baby over on babyReady where they suggest: make a game out of the kinds of strange noises that you may make when you are in labour, try not to make too many changes to your child's routine close to the delivery, let your older child open the baby's gifts, and take your older child to your doctor (or midwife) visits, and more.

He has published guidelines on vaginal breech birth and papers on the negative effect of epidural analgesia on labour, two - step delivery and the over-diagnosis of shoulder dystocia, the limitations of randomized trials for evaluating complex phenomena, the pitfalls of guideline - based care, and the ethics of re-infibulation.

We've long offered a childbirth educator and / or doula - led complement of workshops to encourage a more informed choice of birth options from interventions, comfort measures in labour to delivery and breastfeeding classes.

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.

«In the subgroup of women with spontaneous onset of labour and vaginal deliveries, after controlling for other obstetric and demographic factors, epidural analgesia but not narcotic analgesia was significantly associated with reduced breastfeeding duration (adjusted hazard ratio 1.44, 95 % confidence interval 1.04 - 1.99).»

The World Health Organization says, «We define normal birth as: spontaneous in onset, low - risk at the start of labour and remaining so throughout labour and delivery.

In Scotland, where wide variations in surgical deliveries have been found between units, four evidence based recommendations have been prioritised: clinicians and women should regard trial of labour as the norm after a previous caesarean; offering external cephalic version to women at term if their baby is breech; monitoring and regularly reviewing caesarean data with support for staff; and one to one midwifery care for all women in labour.20 The National Childbirth Trust — a UK parents organisation — is concerned about medicalisation and erosion of midwifery skills and confidence.

At the same time, we, the community of women making choices around labour and delivery, desperately need this information.

I had a fantastic and completely natural birth at home with an active labour of less than 5 hours and a very quick delivery requiring only a few pushes: She flew out with barely a graze and no tearing at all.

The proportion of women with a «normal birth» (birth without induction of labour, epidural or spinal analgesia, general anaesthesia, forceps or ventouse delivery, caesarean section, or episiotomy9 10) varied from 58 % for planned obstetric unit births to 76 % in alongside midwifery units, 83 % in freestanding midwifery units, and 88 % for planned home births; the adjusted odds of having a «normal birth» were significantly higher in all three non-obstetric unit settings (table 5 ⇓).

Comments about the hostile response to any request for home birth confirm the anecdotal reports of consumer groups such as the Association for the Improvement in Maternity Services and the National Childbirth Trust and evidence to the Expert Maternity Group.1 In addition, many women who had booked a home birth were later transferred to hospital for delivery, both before and after the onset of labour.

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 laboLabour: * 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 labolabour * 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 labolabour 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.

Two thirds of the women thought they had not been offered any option about place of birth, 74 (29 %) were referred to hospital for delivery before the onset of labour, and 35 (14 %) were referred to hospital during labour.

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.

Tonight it was three natural at any cost mothers, along with midwives insisting that epis slow down labour and increase the liklihood of instrumental deliveries.

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.

If you experience any of these signs between weeks 20 to 37 of your pregnancy, consult your health care provider right away or proceed to your nearest labour and delivery department.

During labour and delivery, the baby's heart rate and the contractions of the uterus will be monitored.

L. Rajan, «The Impact of Obstetric Procedures and Analgesia / Anaesthesia During Labour and Delivery on Breast Feeding,» Midwifery 10, no. 2 (1994): 87 — 103.

Other western practices that may contribute to PPH include the use of oxytocin for induction and augmentation (speeding up labour) 28 29 episiotomy or perineal trauma, forceps delivery, caesarean and previous caesarean (because of placental problems - see Hemminki30).

In a pregnancy with twins or multiple babies, the goals of care are to prevent very premature delivery, identify and deliver any babies that are failing to thrive in the womb, eliminate trauma to the babies during labour and delivery, and provide expert care for the newborn babies.

There are a number of other risk factors for premature labour and delivery.

There are a number of factors that can put a pregnant woman at higher risk for having a premature labour and delivery.

Unit cost estimation involved a combination of bottom - up and top - down costing methods and followed guidance on costing healthcare services as part of an economic evaluation.15 17 Detailed unit costs, derived from the finance departments of participating trusts and information provided by senior midwives, were estimated for resource inputs into the following components of intrapartum and after birth care for all settings: homebirth delivery packs; NHS reimbursement for midwifery travel; some forms of pain relief; alternative modes of delivery; active management of the third stage of labour; suturing for episiotomy; suturing third and fourth degree perineal tears; manual removal of the placenta; blood transfusions; and care after a stillbirth or neonatal death.

Information had been collected retrospectively on a random sample of 100 women delivered outside hospital in 1983 and on all women delivered outside hospital in the region in 1988.7 Contemporaneous data were also collected on every delivery outside hospital during 1993.8 In these three studies only 53 %, 55 % (132/240), and 44 % (142/324) of women delivered outside hospital were actually booked for a home birth when labour began.

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.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

As a natural birthing momma of two babies, I can personally attest to the fact that personal expectations, the amount of support from caregivers, the quality of the caregiver - patient relationship and involvement in decision making all play a huge role in whether labour and delivery will be viewed positively or negatively.

Individual data collection forms, designed as part of the cohort study, documented duration of labour, mode of delivery, some forms of pain relief, active management of the third stage of labour, whether an episiotomy was performed, clinical complications, length of stay for both mother and baby by type of ward and level of care, and transfers by duration and mode.

Considering most parents spend at least 24 hours in hospital over the course of their labour, delivery and recovery, it's surprising that more hospitals don't provide the non-labouring spouse more than just a stiff waiting room chair.

While HIV can pass from a mother to her child during pregnancy, labour or delivery, and also through breast - milk, the evidence on HIV and infant feeding shows that giving antiretroviral treatment (ART) to mothers living with HIV significantly reduces the risk of transmission through breastfeeding and also improves her health.

Some potential covariates were excluded from the modelling despite being associated with PPH: mode of delivery, type of health professional attending delivery, type of pain relief used in labour and augmentation of labour.

It is notoriously difficult to estimate accurately the amount of blood lost during labour and delivery, and the normal method used (visual estimation) has been found to be inaccurate [31].

I'm going to stick to my guns and tell them I'm going to try for natural labour and delivery (of course f needed I will take any intervention necessary!)

Women's experiences of care reported in the original studies include maternal satisfaction with information, advice, explanation, venue of delivery and preparation for labour and birth, as well as perceptions of choice for pain relief and evaluations of carers behaviour.

Do not forget that you are looking at Homebirth within a very specific cultural milieu, that of predominantly white, well off women in developed countries, a culture where pregnant women expect to be the centre of attention during labour and delivery, and to be in control of every aspect of their lives.

Compared with women who planned a hospital birth with a midwife or physician in attendance, those who planned a home birth were significantly less likely to experience any of the obstetric interventions we assessed, including electronic fetal monitoring, augmentation of labour, assisted vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery and episiotomy (Table 3).

A Cochrane review found that: «Women who used epidurals were more likely to have a longer delivery (second stage of labour), needed their labour contractions stimulated with oxytocin, experienced very low blood pressure, were unable to move for a period of time after the birth (motor blockage), had problems passing urine (fluid retention) and suffered fever and association between epidural analgesia and instrumental birth.»

The data which cover all 19 maternity units gives an overall picture of c section rates, inductions of labour, instrumental deliveries and epidural use.

You may lose your appetite and start to feel sick during the active stage of labour as your body prepares itself for the delivery of your baby by clearing out your digestive system.

We defined delivery related neonatal death as the combination of intrapartum stillbirth and neonatal death caused by complications that occurred during labour (asphyxia or intrauterine infection).

After the experience of being the labouring mama, and not the labour and delivery RN, all the pieces connected and I felt inspired about birth!

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.

All obstetricians will have followed lots of women through their labours (as opposed to just showing up for the last few minutes) and seen countless normal deliveries.