Sentences with phrase «onset of labour»

«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).»

Low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour with planned home birth had lower rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta than those with planned hospital birth.

The primary objective of this study was to compare intrapartum and early neonatal mortality and specific neonatal morbidities for births planned at home, in freestanding midwifery units, and in «alongside midwifery units» (midwife led units on a hospital site with an obstetric unit) with births planned in obstetric units, for babies of women judged to be at low risk of complications before the onset of labour.

Conclusions: Low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour with planned home birth had lower rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta than those with planned hospital birth.

that for women at low risk of complications, there is no difference in perinatal mortality and morbidity associated with births planned at the onset of labour to be either at home, in a birth centre or in a standard labour ward.

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.

Thirty five women were transferred to hospital after the onset of labour but only 20 (12 % of those still under care at home) were in established labour when transferred (table 2).

Women were classified into the three groups according to their planned place of birth at the onset of labour and the primary composite outcome for the neonate was used [2].

Of the 1807 women who intended to give birth at home at the onset of labour, 1521 (84 %) did so.

These results should strengthen policies that encourage low - risk women at the onset of labour to choose their own place of birth.

More than likely it is a combination of maternal and fetal signals that initiate the onset of labour.

A planned home birth was defined as a birth that, at the onset of labour, was intended to occur at home with the assistance of a home birth practitioner.

From conception, these hormones are responsible for «setting the stage» for all things pregnancy related, such as: optimum fetal development, preparing the pregnant woman's body for lactation, signalling the onset of labour and expelling the placenta or «after - birth».

Yet a large number were known to be at increased risk of intrapartum asphyxia before the onset of labour.

AIMS: To determine for the period 1973 - 93, national and regional (1991 and 1992 only) incidence of home birth in New Zealand, with home birth defined as home being the intended place of birth at the onset of labour, to calculate perinatal and maternal mortality rates for home birth, and to categorise the cause of perinatal death.

To determine for the period 1973 - 93, national and regional (1991 and 1992 only) incidence of home birth in New Zealand, with home birth defined as home being the intended place of birth at the onset of labour, to calculate perinatal and maternal mortality rates for home birth, and to categorise the cause of perinatal death.

Travel time greater than 20 minutes was associated with greater death, regardless of planned location as this included just traveling to the hospital at the onset of labour.

The guidelines include interventions provided to the mother — for example steroid injections before birth, antibiotics when her water breaks before the onset of labour, and magnesium sulfate to prevent future neurological impairment of the child, as well as interventions for the newborn baby — for example thermal care, feeding support, (e.g. kangaroo mother care, when babies are stable), safe oxygen use, and other treatments to help babies breathe more easily.

The 37th week of pregnancy is considered to be normal for the onset of labour.

So a team of Dutch researchers decided to test whether low risk women at the onset of labour with planned home birth have a higher rate of rare but severe outcomes (known as severe acute maternal morbidity or SAMM) than those with planned hospital births.

Overall, they conclude: «Low risk women in primary care with planned home birth at the onset of labour had a lower rate of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta than those with planned hospital birth.

Using data from a national study into maternal morbidity and national birth registry data from 1 August 2004 to 1 August 2006, they identified over 146,000 low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour.

We do not have concerns about purchased or hired pools that are filled from domestic hot water supplies at the onset of labour, provided that any pumps are used solely for pool emptying.

this new advice relates to the importance of women not labouring or giving birth in a heated birthing pool which has been filled prior to the onset of labour and where the temperature has been maintained by the use of a heater and pump

«Low risk women in primary care with planned home birth at the onset of labour had a lower rate of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta than those with planned hospital birth.

We defined antepartum stillbirth as a death of a fetus after 37 weeks» gestation before the onset of labour and intrapartum stillbirth as a stillbirth in which intrauterine fetal death occurred after the onset of labour but before birth.

For 294 women (13.8 %) the birth notifications indicated obstetric referral before the onset of labour, which was an exclusion criterion, and for another 171 (8.0 %) information from the midwives could not be checked against birth notifications because they were not available.

Data variables were divided into background and outcome variables according to whether the variable was or could be known before the onset of labour.

Did you know that acupuncture and other treatments available through our naturopathic doctor can help with the onset of labour?

«There is further scope for uncertainty, when determining which babies were «healthy» at the onset of labour.»

The extension will expand to include all cases of neonatal and maternal deaths, all cases of severe brain damage and any still birth where the baby was alive at the onset of labour.