Sentences with phrase «prolapse happens»
Holding the presenting part off the cord and scooping and running to an OR is an option if the prolapse happens earlier in labour, but it is impossible if the baby is crowning, as you know.
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It happens so rarely that the rate of death from AFE (1/1, 000,000) and cord prolapse (1/100, 000) at homebirth is a miniscule fraction of the maternal mortality (1/5, 000) and perinatal mortality (1.7 / 1000) from elective cesarean surgery in hospital (34).
Also, my abdominal organs had moved downwards, and my subjective feeling was that they were going to prolapse any minute (which did not happen, however).
They believed home birth was a reasonable and safe choice but clearly told me if something like a prolapsed cord happened that the hospital would be safer.
When this 20 % risk of death is compared to the 0.02 % rate of cord prolapse during labor at homebirth that might have a better outcome if it happened in hospital, this means that a low risk woman has a 1000 times higher chance of having a life threatening complication either to her life or her fetus / newborns life at planned hospital birth, than if she plans to have an attended homebirth with a well - trained practitioner.
Cord prolapse definitely has better outcomes when it happens in hospital but when it occurs during labor it is usually caused by the routine of breaking the water.
This could happen due to some external force like umbilical cord is prolapsed or the baby is underweight or the lungs are not fully developed.