Sentences with phrase «when labour and delivery»

By booking you in early you will be able to have regular ultrasound scans and see specialist doctors and midwives who will monitor your condition and attend to you when labour and delivery are imminent.

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There's more information on how to prepare siblings for the birth of a new baby over on babyReady where they suggest: make a game out of the kinds of strange noises that you may make when you are in labour, try not to make too many changes to your child's routine close to the delivery, let your older child open the baby's gifts, and take your older child to your doctor (or midwife) visits, and more.

At John and Lizzie's the care is based on Active Birth principles: the idea that women have faster, safer, easier deliveries (and their babies a better birth experience) when they move about in labour and give birth standing or squatting, rather than lying on their backs.

Information had been collected retrospectively on a random sample of 100 women delivered outside hospital in 1983 and on all women delivered outside hospital in the region in 1988.7 Contemporaneous data were also collected on every delivery outside hospital during 1993.8 In these three studies only 53 %, 55 % (132/240), and 44 % (142/324) of women delivered outside hospital were actually booked for a home birth when labour began.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

MAS can happen before, during, or after labour and delivery when a newborn inhales a mixture of meconium (the early stool passed by a newborn soon after birth) and amniotic fluid (the fluid in which the baby floats inside the amniotic sac).

While you can utilize acupuncture anytime for most pregnancy symptoms, when specifically preparing for labour it is recommended that women begin acupuncture treatment around the 37th - 38th week of pregnancy and continue weekly until delivery.