Sentences with phrase «unassisted vaginal delivery»

Planned out - of - hospital birth also had a statistically significant association with higher rates for 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 7, neonatal seizures, neonatal ventilator support, maternal blood transfusion, and unassisted vaginal delivery but with lower rates of both admission to neonatal intensive care units and obstetrical interventions, including induction and augmentation of labor, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery, and severe perineal lacerations.

Planned out - of - hospital birth was also strongly associated with unassisted vaginal delivery (93.8 %, versus 71.9 % with planned in - hospital births; p < 0.001) and with decreased odds for obstetrical procedures.

Planned out - of - hospital birth remained strongly associated with decreased odds of induced labor (adjusted odds ratio, 0.11; 95 % CI, 0.09 to 0.12), cesarean delivery (adjusted odds ratio, 0.18; 95 % CI, 0.16 to 0.22), and other obstetrical procedures and increased odds of unassisted vaginal delivery (adjusted odds ratio, 5.63; 95 % CI, 4.84 to 6.55).

Planned out - of - hospital birth was also strongly associated with unassisted vaginal delivery (93.8 %, vs. 71.9 % with planned in - hospital births; P < 0.001) and with decreased odds for obstetrical procedures.

Out - of - hospital births were also associated with a higher rate of unassisted vaginal delivery and lower rates of obstetrical interventions and NICU admission than in - hospital births, findings that corroborate the results of earlier studies.3 - 5 These associations follow logically from the more conservative approach to intervention that characterizes the midwifery model of care8, 19 and from the fact that obstetrical interventions are either rare (e.g., induction of labor) 20 or unavailable (e.g., cesarean delivery, whether at home or at a birth center) outside the hospital setting.

There is nothing more «natural» than a woman having an unassisted vaginal delivery in an isolated field an hour or more away from any medical facilities in the middle of the African Savannah, right?

It works for unassisted vaginal deliveries but not for operative vaginal or c - section deliveries.