Sentences with phrase «relieve labour pains»
A team at the University of Leeds used a standard TENS machine like those designed to relieve labour pains to apply electrical pulses to the tragus, the small raised flap at the front of the ear immediately in front of the ear canal.
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Most women choose to have gas and air to relieve pain, while others choose to have an epidural; this is usually recommended for lengthy and difficult labours.
Garrison (personal communication) reports that Narcan, which is sometimes needed by the baby to counteract the sedating effect of pain - relieving drugs such as pethidine (demorol), given to the mother in labour, can be effectively administered via the mother's veins in third stage, waking up the newborn baby in a matter of seconds.
Perhaps the most salient conclusion of the Dozier et al. study is that the combination of the use of epidural in conjunction with other medications — most notably IV oxytocic agents — is very effective in relieving pain and augmenting labour but it also suppresses the body's production of endogenous oxytocin, which is essential to milk ejection and milk production (Jonas et al., 2009).