Sentences with phrase «speeding up labor»

Sears, William & Martha THE BIRTH BOOK Little, Brown, 1994 This definitive guide to birthing includes topics such as physical and emotional preparation, lessening the discomfort and speeding up the labor process, the father's role, how to select the kind of birthing environment you want, and more.

Many soon - to - be parents are led to believe that medical interventions are helpful in speeding up labor.

If your bag of water is not breaking sometimes your provider will break the amniotic sac to help induce and speed up labor.

It is often seen as a natural induction technique or as a way to augment or speed up labor.

The belief was that it would speed up labor and help prevent a cesarean section (c - section).

A herb often used in pregnancy to help speed up labor.

Since you never know how long your labor is going to be, it's no wonder that you want to know how to speed up labor so that it's as quick as possible.

If the immersion is right, mother's body will respond by releasing more oxytocin, which helps to speed up the labor process.

To create the buoyancy effect and «call» all of those hormones to speed up the labor, mother's belly should be completely covered with water (up to her breast level).

Let your labor start and progress on its own unless there are clear, compelling health reasons to induce or speed up labor.

Furthermore, oxytocin production often increases when women are immersed in deep warm water, which can speed up labor without any increase in sensation / pain.

This can lead to a stalled labor, more interventions to speed up your labor, and then a possible cesarean section.

Would you want your midwife to do anything to speed up labor if you felt it was progressing too slowly?

Any mom to be can confirm that we can sometimes feel a bit claustrophobic during pregnancy, we tend to want to stay close to home especially as we get closer to our due date and don't tend to go too far, this also means doing a lot more sitting at home, which doesn't really help speed up labor either!

It also included the use of hormones to kickstart or speed up labor.

More and more women are deciding that they want to take back control of their bodies during the labor process and do not want to be subjected to unnecessary procedures (i.e., episiotomy, enemas, breaking of water, etc.) Far too often doctors are performing these and other procedures and giving women pitocin to speed up the labor process to suit the doctor's own schedule, not the mother's or baby's schedule.

Some medications can speed up labor pains and lead to fetal distress in babies by slowing down their heart rate.

Common hospital interventions (ie: use of pitocin to induce or speed up labor, c - section, iv drugs, etc.) are not relied on nor is the common 12 hour time limit implied.

Routine perineal / pubic shaving, vaginal cleansing, and administering an enema to speed up labor are potentially harmful and should be discontinued as a form of care.

Healthy women who go into labor on their own should not be expected to progress at a rate of 1 cm dilation per hour in the first stage of labor and therefore need no interventions to speed up their labor.

With all the risks associated with oxytocin, using it when designing an intervention like active management to speed up labor is like designing a streamlined parachute — you may get there quicker but you may pay a big price.

Amniotomy is the artificial rupture of the amniotic sac during labor or before labor naturally starts; usually done to speed up labor.

Pitocin: A synthetic form of oxytocin (a naturally occurring hormone) which is given intravenously to start or speed up labor.

I am not exactly sure how, but being submerged in water will help to speed up your labor.

Plus, medication to try to speed up labor is correlated with an increase in cesareans.

It also triggers contractions during labor; in fact, Pitocin, a drug used to speed up labor, is an artificial version of oxytocin.

This allows the laboring mom to rest and relax while still optimizing her pelvis and hopefully speed up labor.

There was also a 31 % decrease in the use of Pitocin — medicine used to induce and speed up labor — for mothers who had doulas by their side.

At the time, her doctor strongly recommended that she drink castor oil to help bring on labor and speed up the labor process.

I do know many moms who swear it sped up their labors.

If the pups are in an appropriate position and are not too large to fit through the birth canal, then oxytocin may be indicated to kick start or speed up labor, and the veterinarian may manually assist with the labor.

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Amniotomy, or breaking your water, is a method of inducing or augmenting labor (speeding it up).

This may be one of the contributing factors to why epidurals are known to slow labor, since movement and the use of gravity to bring the baby down are proven to speed up the process.

Both the labor nurse and I were trying to speed things up, I was literally hopping up and down on the balls of my feet, saying, «This baby doesn't look good.

Although a rupture is more likely after labor is induced with one of these products (or speeded up with Pitocin), some ruptures have developed without the use of either.

So here are six ways to deal with your labor if it slows in the first stage or speeds up a stalled labor:

Massage and acupressure can be very beneficial in helping to speed up a stalled labor.

Movement can speed up a slow labor, help a posterior baby turn into a more optimal (and less painful!)

Probably... But can they, do they speed some labors up or help out the momma who would otherwise need a section get the vaginal birth she wants?

It's almost expected, especially if preterm labor speeds up the journey.

When trying to induce labor or speed up a prolonged early labor, have the mother go about her regular activities.

Midwives in the 18th and 19th centuries used the practice to speed up stalled labors.

However, it seems as though there has been a trend with intervening with the natural course of labor in an effort to speed up the process.

They said it's possible that it could help speed my labor up.

The doctor was «bored,» so decided to speed up your wife's labor?

Why did the doctor try to speed up your wife's labor?

When the baby remains in a posterior position (5.5 % of labors), the mother is more likely to experience a longer than average labor (both first and second stages); the use of synthetic oxytocin to augment (speed up) labor; epidural for pain relief and a cesarean surgery.

The drugs made the labor slow and so Pitocin was used to speed things up.

Fear during labor activates our primal fight - or - flight mechanism, causing stress hormones called catecholamines to slow down digestion, make the heart speed up, force blood to the arms and legs, and ultimately deplete blood flow to the uterus, creating uterine pain and hindering the labor process.