Sentences with phrase «routine episiotomies»

Within a few years the rate of routine episiotomies dropped precipitously and episiotomies are now almost solely reserved for forceps and vacuum delivery.

While routine episiotomies are no longer recommended, there is still a place for them in certain birth scenarios.

Procedures such as shaving, giving enemas, performing routine episiotomies, administering drugs, and birthing with forceps were accepted as common practice.

Erratum to «Routine Episiotomy Practice at a Tertiary Care Center in Saudi Arabia» [Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 6 (2016) 794 - 797]

Lactation professionals who resist changes to the Ten Steps are no different from obstetricians who continue doing routine episiotomies.

For instance, if your midwife told you that in hospital you were likely to have a routine episiotomy she was mistaken.

Routine episiotomies are no longer recommended.

Today, however, research suggests that routine episiotomies don't prevent these problems after all.

Neither is a doctor who does routine episiotomies, or doesn't understand how to catch a baby unless mom is laying on her back.

«A number of observational studies and randomized trials, however, showed that routine episiotomy is associated with an increased incident of anal sphincter and rectal tears,» write the authors of Williams Obstetrics (23rd edition, p. 401, their emphasis), including a four to sixfold risk of fecal or flatus incontinence.