The research is a retrospective study of 309 women admitted for
vaginal delivery at full term to Rabin Medical Center in Israel.
She ended up having
a vaginal delivery at 36 weeks with her second child out of labor pain confounded with passing out a renal calculi (she had eliminated 1 tiny stone of 2, two weeks earlier spontaneously.I think the doctor missinterpreted the second pain around).
Furthermore, the report found that among women who had
a vaginal delivery at second birth, the rate of a severe tear was 7.2 % in women with a tear at first birth, compared to 1.3 % in women without, a more than five-fold increase in risk.
My eldest spent 2 days in the NICU because he was a bit grunty (
vaginal delivery at 38 + 3 following SROM), and his baby brother passed light mec during labor, prompting the presence of the NICU team at his birth.
A female infant was born at home by spontaneous
vaginal delivery at 40 weeks and 4 days gestation via a planned water birth.
Not exact matches
Dr. Lane and her team currently offer
vaginal breech birth and attendance
at twin
deliveries as an option for appropriate candidates following a thorough informed consent.
Dr. Lane had the pleasure of managing three simulated
vaginal breech births as the primary midwife, assisting
at three more, and observing an additional 86
vaginal breech birth
deliveries.
Women run 5 to 7 times the risk of death with cesarean section compared with
vaginal birth.14, 29 Complications during and after the surgery include surgical injury to the bladder, uterus and blood vessels (2 per 100), 30 hemorrhage (1 to 6 women per 100 require a blood transfusion), 30 anesthesia accidents, blood clots in the legs (6 to 20 per 1000), 30 pulmonary embolism (1 to 2 per 1000), 30 paralyzed bowel (10 to 20 per 100 mild cases, 1 in 100 severe), 30 and infection (up to 50 times morecommon).1 One in ten women report difficulties with normal activities two months after the birth, 23 and one in four report pain
at the incision site as a major problem.9 One in fourteen still report incisional pain six months or more after
delivery.9 Twice as many women require rehospitalization as women having normal
vaginal birth.18 Especially with unplanned cesarean section, women are more likely to experience negative emotions, including lower self - esteem, a sense of failure, loss of control, and disappointment.
There's more than just one way to become a mom, some of which don't involve giving birth
at all, so we need to stop telling women that their birth wasn't natural if they didn't have a drug - free,
vaginal delivery.
Another article in Parents recommended that expectant moms use perineal massage to help avoid
vaginal tearing during
delivery,
at least six weeks before your due date.
C - sections are typically performed when a normal
delivery (
vaginal delivery) would put the life of the baby or the mother
at risk.
Did you know that it takes a full 30 days to rest and physically recover from a
vaginal birth, and cesarean
deliveries require
at least 40 full days of rest?
In 2002, when my first baby was still breech
at 34 weeks, my obstetrician flat - out refused to attempt a
vaginal delivery as did every single other doctor
at the military base where we lived (I was required to deliver
at the base hospital or else pay for the entire cost out - of - pocket, which we could not afford).
Fewer attempts
at vaginal delivery after Cesarean sections (VBAC).
OB slows «delivering» the baby so mama's contractions can clear baby's lungs, «just as happens
at a
vaginal delivery».
When my second child was born in 2012, I arrived
at the hospital in labor expecting a
vaginal delivery like I'd had with my first child.
One solution is for mothers to «colonize» the infant with
vaginal flora (hers or a healthy medically screened donor)
at birth, should
vaginal delivery not occur.
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.
Mothers whose babies are face - up
at birth tend to push longer, more commonly need Pitocin to stimulate contractions, and have a significantly higher risk of having an assisted
vaginal delivery or a c - section.
The term CPD has been overused to describe almost any unsuccessful attempt
at vaginal delivery.
My daughter was born
at 37 weeks, 2 days after a difficult unmedicated labor, and
vaginal delivery.
Labor induction has been increasing since the early 1990s, 1 and the rate is running
at about 20 % for pregnancies
at term.2, 3 Induction of labor compared with spontaneous labor is associated with adverse maternal outcomes, including
at least a doubling in the caesarean
delivery rate, 4,5 25 — 50 % increase in instrumental
vaginal delivery rate, 3,5 higher postpartum hemorrhage rate, 5 and prolonged labor.5 Neonates born after induced labor are more likely to have low Apgar score and low umbilical cord blood pH. 5
However, a transverse or oblique Baby A makes
vaginal delivery nearly impossible, unless babies twist around
at the last minute!
Other factors independently associated with starting to breastfeed were country of residence, a planned pregnancy, attendance
at antenatal classes,
vaginal delivery, being accompanied
at delivery, and a post-partum hospital stay of > 24 h (Table 4).
Maternal factors independently associated with any breastfeeding
at 1 month were country of residence, a planned pregnancy, attendance
at antenatal classes, and a
vaginal delivery (Table 5), and these factors, with the exception of a planned pregnancy, were also significantly associated with continuation of breastfeeding (Supplementary Table 2 available
at IJE online).
In addition, much of the data compiled on
vaginal delivery looks
at «positive outcomes» alone (i.e. a planned
vaginal delivery that ends up as a
vaginal delivery) rather than «all planned
vaginal delivery outcomes» (including those that result in emergency cesareans) and their subsequent mortalities or morbidities.
The risks of transmission of the virus to the baby
at birth are the same for
vaginal delivery and C section.
Research also suggests that women who use hospital - based birthing centers are more likely to have a normal
vaginal birth and more likely to be breast - feeding six to eight weeks after
delivery than those who give birth in a typical hospital setting, said Ellen Hodnett, a professor of nursing
at the University of Toronto and a review author for the Cochrane Collaboration Pregnancy and Childbirth Group.
At 37 weeks, the baby weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces so the doctors decided to induce me to try for a
vaginal delivery.
As with those who've had a
vaginal delivery, you'll want to avoid straining on the toilet, and you may need to take a stool softener for
at least the first bowel movement or two.
While he's
at it, he should look
at the studies that suggest that breech babies may fare equally regardless of method of
delivery, C - section or
vaginal delivery, despite the current obstetrical obsession for performing surgery.
«Compared with women who planned to birth in hospital, women who planned to birth
at home underwent fewer obstetrical interventions, were more likely to have a spontaneous
vaginal birth and were more likely to be exclusively breastfeeding
at 3 and 10 days after
delivery,» write the authors.
To estimate whether prophylactic antibiotics
at the time of repair of third - or fourth - degree perineal tears after
vaginal delivery prevent wound infection and breakdown.This was a prospective, randomized, placebo - controlled study.
In this study,
at 3 - month follow - up, women were more likely to have urinary, but not fecal, incontinence if they had been randomized to the planned
vaginal delivery group.
The 2 groups of women appeared to have similar baseline characteristics: «Dyads in the intervention and control group did not differ with regard to maternal age, education, type of medical coverage, week
at which prenatal care was initiated, infant gestational age
at birth, race, or rate of
vaginal delivery».
One paper in Britain claims that for a select group of very low risk women who have had
at least one successful
vaginal delivery home birth is no more dangerous than hospital birth.
Try limiting to women age 20 - 44, with
at least high school education, delivering week 39 or later, with babies weighing
at least 2000 grams and
vaginal delivery, dying within 28 days after
delivery.
So women need to know the death and damage rates
at home v hospital, the death and damage rate when under professional medical care v under other care, and that there are no differences in outcome in terms of bonding, intelligence or socialisation for caesarian v
vaginal delivery and breast v bottle.
This dramatic increase was a result of several changes in the practice environment, including the introduction of electronic fetal monitoring and a decrease in operative
vaginal deliveries and attempts
at vaginal breech
deliveries (8 — 11).
Those
at high risk of uterine rupture (eg, those with previous classical uterine incision or T - incision, prior uterine rupture, or extensive transfundal uterine surgery) and those in whom
vaginal delivery is otherwise contraindicated (eg, those with placenta previa) are not generally candidates for planned TOLAC.
So ebil obstetricians are both trigger - happy scalpel fiends, desperate to cut wombyn open as soon as look
at them, AND lazy, lackadaisical layabouts who won't go near wombyn with a scalpel until it's too late... Also, you said the woman still wanted to try for a
vaginal delivery, so in other words the midwife wanted to overrule the OB AND the woman, and force an operative birth on the mother.
No association between
vaginal delivery and interference with daily life was observed after 6 weeks, which supports a previous study.22 Additionally, the prevalence of moderate or severe UI in the
vaginal delivery group was higher than that in the cesarean
delivery group
at 3 — 5 days, perhaps because pelvic floor muscle strength is significantly reduced
at 3 — 8 days after
vaginal delivery, but this is not the case after cesarean
delivery.6
The Chinese study found that women who had an epidural for pain relief during labor for a
vaginal delivery had a 14 percent rate of depression
at six weeks postpartum compared to nearly 35 percent rate of depression for those who did not have the pain relief.
There's «high» and «moderate» evidence, respectively, that exercise during pregnancy reduces the risk of excess weight in babies
at birth, and doesn't boost the risk of labor complications such as the need for induced labor or episiotomy (a surgical cut of
vaginal tissue to aid
delivery).
At the same time, this is the process that happens naturally in every
vaginal delivery.
It takes
at least four weeks to recover from a Cesarean section — which involves cutting through the skin, tissue, and uterine wall, extracting the baby and placenta, and sewing the incision — compared with one or two weeks for
vaginal deliveries.
The infant tends to acquire the flora swallowed from the
vaginal fluid
at the time of
delivery.
The balance of good and bad bacteria starts
at birth —
vaginal deliveries and breastfeeding have been shown to improve a child's chances of starting off with a healthy bacterial colony compared to C - sections and bottle feeding.
I am happy to be an example of a mom who,
at her worst, had a grade three prolapse, had 3
vaginal deliveries, and now 9 years later is still running, boarding, hiking, and playing without limitations with her kids.
A Caesarean section, or C - section, is the surgical
delivery of a baby through incisions made by an obstetrician in the mother's abdomen and uterus and may be performed when the mother is unable to deliver her child vaginally or when a
vaginal delivery would put the health or life of the baby and / or mother
at risk.