One of the studies in the 2005 meta - analysis, conducted with high -
risk women delivering at a hospital in India, was stopped early because of 4 fetal deaths: 3 in the nipple stimulation group, and 1 in the oxytocin induction group.
These findings agree with the results of a British retrospective study demonstrating an increased duration of gestation with increasing coital frequency at all gestational ages up through 37 weeks.8 Similarly, low -
risk women delivering prematurely in another study were less likely to be sexually active than the full - term controls.10
Not exact matches
In Ethiopia, deaths were cut in half after more than 20 million bed nets were
delivered, covering those most at
risk — particularly
women and children.
Information about the importance of breastfeeding and the
risks of formula is meant to be
delivered when
women are requiring or requesting feeding information.
There are 12 high quality studies since 1995 (1 - 12) from Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, US, UK, New Zealand and Israel, which all show planned attended homebirth to have either lower or similar rates of perinatal mortality and very significantly lower rates of maternal morbidity, such as cesareans, hemorrhage, and third and fourth degree tears compared to matched groups of low
risk women who plan to
deliver in hospital.
Someone can
deliver a live baby after two days of labour and look back and think that they didn't need a c - section and be glad they didn't get one, but if a
woman has been actlively labouring for 12 hours, chances are that the
risks of augmentation or a c - section are lower than the
risks of waiting.
I thought midwives swore left and right that they only
delivered the lowest
risk of the lowest
risk women.
That
women have the right to choose where to
deliver if they are low
risk!
The authors looked more closely at the 4,863
women who
delivered and had no medical
risk factors or pregnancy complications.
The medical profession, while extremely useful in the event of a high -
risk pregnancy, has taken the 80 % of low -
risk women and turned their birth in to a medical event that needs to be managed - an event that
women and babies need to be «
delivered» from.
I stand by my assertion that the vast majority of
women would choose to give birth in a hospital if they could not find a midwife willing to
deliver high
risk patients at home.
Most people do admit that there are negligent midwives, there are
women having homebirths that should have been
risked out and there are babies that are being
delivered to low
risk mums that have died or been brain damaged without expert medical care in a hospital.
If that MD is also a board - certified obstetrician, then qualified people have determined that this particular MD is qualified to care for pregnant
women and
deliver babies, both high -
risk and low -
risk.
The
risk of death to a newborn
delivered vaginally to a low -
risk woman is only 0.62 per 1,000 live births.
The
risk of death to a newborn
delivered by C - section to a low -
risk woman is 1.77 deaths to 1,000 live births.
ROTHMANWell, it's interesting, some years ago, Kaiser in California started paying 80 percent for
women that chose to
deliver in a birth center — I mean, sorry — 100 percent for
women that chose to
deliver in a birth center and 80 percent for
women who are low -
risk that chose to
deliver in a hospital because they knew that they could save money.
Women with Low - Risk Pregnancies Can Safely Give Birth outside Hospitals with Midwives A new study in England shows little difference in complications among the babies of women with low - risk pregnancies who delivered in hospitals versus those who gave birth with midwives at home or in birthing cen
Women with Low -
Risk Pregnancies Can Safely Give Birth outside Hospitals with Midwives A new study in England shows little difference in complications among the babies of women with low - risk pregnancies who delivered in hospitals versus those who gave birth with midwives at home or in birthing cent
Risk Pregnancies Can Safely Give Birth outside Hospitals with Midwives A new study in England shows little difference in complications among the babies of
women with low - risk pregnancies who delivered in hospitals versus those who gave birth with midwives at home or in birthing cen
women with low -
risk pregnancies who delivered in hospitals versus those who gave birth with midwives at home or in birthing cent
risk pregnancies who
delivered in hospitals versus those who gave birth with midwives at home or in birthing centers.
A new study in England shows little difference in complications among the babies of
women with low -
risk pregnancies who
delivered in hospitals versus those who gave birth with midwives at home or in birthing centers.
The HSE Clinical Practice Guidelines on Prevention and Management of Primary Postpartum Haemorrhage state that for «
women without specific
risk factors for PPH
delivering vaginally, oxytocin (10 iu by intramuscular injection) is the agent of choice for prophylaxis in the third stage of labour.
Even if we just take early and late neonatal stats, leaving out HALF of the homebirth deaths (22/44) it's 1.29 / 1000 for MANA's almost all white, majority college educated, mostly singleton, mostly low -
risk healthy
women in their 20s and 30s, vs. 0.81 for EVERYONE
delivering at term in the hospital.
You haven't seen a perfectly low
risk woman labor within reasonable limits with no complications only to
deliver a stillborn because the midwife couldn't tell she was listening to the mother's heart rate, not the baby's.
and just want
women to know — REALLY know — the
risks involved with deciding to
deliver away from a hospital setting.
Unfortunately, the stories here tend to include high -
risk women who were encouraged by (usually) under - qualified midwives to
deliver at home.
Our neonatologists and high -
risk obstetricians collaborate closely to ensure that the NICU team is aware of all
women who may
deliver babies that require their care.
For the baby, instrumental delivery can increase the short - term
risks of bruising, facial injury, displacement of the skull bones, and cephalohematoma (blood clot under the scalp).24 The
risk of intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain) was increased in one study by more than four times for babies born by forceps compared to spontaneous birth, 25 although two studies showed no detectable developmental differences for forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when
women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to
deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in place.28
But midwives say
women are not encouraged by their doctors to explore alternatives such as birthing centers, where low -
risk women can give
deliver naturally, balancing technology with a home - like environment.
Health workers caring for pregnant
women need to assess their
risk of
delivering preterm and be able to recognize and manage conditions that can lead to preterm birth (e.g. pre-eclampsia, a condition in pregnancy that causes the mother to have high blood pressure).
Who provides care: lay health workers for caring for people with hypertension, lay health workers to
deliver care for mothers and children or infectious diseases, lay health workers to
deliver community - based neonatal care packages, midlevel health professionals for abortion care, social support to pregnant
women at
risk, midwife - led care for childbearing
women, non-specialist providers in mental health and neurology, and physician - nurse substitution.
The study also found that
women who
delivered babies at a higher gestational age (further along in their pregnancy) were less likely to develop PPD, and
women who did not have anesthesia, such as an epidural, during delivery had an increased
risk.
which highlights the health
risks facing infants who are formula fed, and the health
risks facing
women who do not breastfeed after
delivering, produced on the occasion of WABA's 21st Anniversary
Even studies that claim to show that homebirth is as safe as hospital birth, like the Johnson and Daviss BMJ 2005 study, ACTUALLY show that homebirth with a CPM has triple the rate of neonatal mortality of comparable
risk women who
delivered in the hospital in the same year.
Genital Herpes: For many years, because of the
risk of passing herpes to the baby during delivery,
women with a history of herpes have almost always
delivered by cesarean.
This is a study that supports the fact that low -
risk women can
deliver safely at home if they so choose without raising their
risk of unwanted outcomes.
It's great that low -
risk women can
deliver at home and
women who are in higher
risk categories can
deliver in a hospital where there are caregivers trained to the level of care needed for their medical issues.
These data report intrapartum and early neonatal death rates in full term
women who intended to
deliver out of hospital (and subsequently
deliver either out of hospital or in hospital) at the start of labor compared with
women who intended a hospital birth (thus «higher
risk» pregnancies are included in this group) in 2012.
To our knowledge, this is the only study in the Netherlands to show a higher
risk of delivery related perinatal mortality among
women with the intention to
deliver in primary care compared with
women delivered in secondary care.
Women who
deliver in a birth center usually have already given birth without any problems or have a low -
risk pregnancy (meaning they are in good health and are not likely to develop complications).
Nearly one in three
women in the U.S.
deliver their babies by C - section, either for elective reasons, or because of a
risk to mother or child.
Women giving birth in hospitals were at greater
risk than those
delivering at home.
It's vital all
women have access to clear information about the benefits and
risks of this and other ways of
delivering radiotherapy to allow them to make an informed choice.
In January 2010, «Start4Life» was launched with the aim of helping frontline staff
deliver the Healthy Child Programme, supporting pregnant
women and the parents of 0 - 2 year olds in establishing good feeding and activity habits for babies, to help reduce the
risk of obesity in later life.
Pregnant
women who are diagnosed with sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and insomnia appear to be at
risk of
delivering their babies before reaching full term, according to an analysis of California births by researchers at UC San Francisco.
Doctors at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, reported that weekly injections of a form of progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone that helps nourish the uterus, may substantially reduce a pregnant
woman's
risk of
delivering too soon.
But the task force concluded in August that «among
women who have a single, legal, first - trimester abortion of an unplanned pregnancy for nontherapeutic reasons, the relative
risks of mental health problems are no greater than the
risks among
women who
deliver an unplanned pregnancy.»
Studies have shown that the
risk of heart disease is higher in this group of
women after radiation treatment because it can be difficult to ensure that a sufficient dose of radiation is
delivered to the left breast while adequately shielding the heart from exposure.
Of the 898 high
risk women followed in the study, only 3.8 % of
women with concentrations less than 10 ng / mL (tested at 18 - 21 weeks)
delivered before 34 weeks of gestation, a similar rate to that expected in a normal pregnancy.
Another study in Circulation also found a link between heart disease and childbirth:
Women who'd
delivered a premature baby (before 37 weeks gestation) had a 40 % greater
risk of later developing cardiovascular disease, compared to those who'd had full - term pregnancies.
Research suggests that having pregnancies less than 12 months apart is associated with an increased
risk of complications like placental abruption (when the placenta separates from the wall of the uterus before delivery) and placenta previa (when the placenta partially or completely covers the cervix) in
women who
delivered their first child via caesarean section.
Women older than 35 are at a higher
risk for developing diabetes and / or high blood pressure, having a multiple gestation,
delivering prematurely, having a large or a low birth - weight baby, requiring a cesarean section, having placenta previa, and experiencing pregnancy loss.
But, the required dose of radiation
delivered to the chest is so high that a young
woman getting just a single scan, for example, may increase her lifetime
risk of breast cancer and lung cancer by between around 1 and 4 %.