Sentences with phrase «which labouring women»

Noting the ease with which labouring women squat and give birth in the paddy fields, compared with the painful and laborious experience of many Western women in childbirth, she concluded that the stressful, sedentary modern lifestyle and sugary diet provide clues to the problem and that preparation, inside and out, was the key.

Not exact matches

«Women with children are often excluded from full participation in the labour market due to challenges in balancing work and family life, or they work part - time, which often means lower wages and fewer benefits, including lack of a pension, paid vacation and sick leave, as well as less job stability,» the document states.

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

The Labour party appointed Seema Malhotra as the first - ever shadow minister to tackle violence against women and girls, and the Archbishop of Canterbury vocalised his backing for Christian charity Restored, which is equipping the Church to tackle gender - based violence.

Only 28 % of the women in the date eating group needed prostin / oxytocin (for inducing / augmenting labour), which was significantly lower than the 47 % who needed induction in the control group (p = 0.036).

When I was expecting my 2nd child I had a book on pregnancy and childbirth, which contained photographs of women in labour and during childbirth.

My understanding of one of the evidence based benefits of a doula came from studies which looked at «a woman known to the labouring woman» but not involved in her medical care being present for the labour reduced Caesarean section.

Dr. Shah's article stems from the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) new set of guidelines, published in December 2014, which offer evidence - based advice for the care of pregnant women and babies during labour and immediately after birth.

Some women choose to have absolutely no medical involvement in their labour, meaning they have no pain relief, no medication and no foetal monitoring; this is a personal choice and will be supported by the medical team, as long as nothing happens which could threaten the life of the mother or baby; if an emergency situation arises, the doctor may recommend taking medication or having a caesarean section.

The increase of women in the labour force has led to significant changes in family dynamics which have challenged breastfeeding (Heymann, 2016).

I ended #WorldDoulaWeek the same way in which I started it; at a labouring woman's side.

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a bacterium that can live in our bodies quite harmlessly but it can pose a problem for pregnant women because of the risk of passing it to your baby around labour and delivery which can cause serious infection.

In Spain, obstetric care includes routine enemas, pubic shaving, and episiotomy, procedures that are not evidence based and which ignore the WHO's guidelines on the care of women in labour.

The study was a prospective cohort study with planned place of birth at the start of care in labour as the exposure (home, freestanding midwifery unit, alongside midwifery unit, or obstetric unit).12 Women were included in the group in which they planned to give birth at the start of care in labour regardless of whether they were transferred during labour or immediately after birth.

AIMS Ireland is a non-profit, voluntary organisation which supports evidence - based choices for women in pregnancy, labour and birth and in the postnatal period.

An epidural leaves a woman unable to get up and move around, which can help labour progress.

These two units have Midwifery Led Units in which low risk women are cared for by midwives and in which there are options of labouring and birthing in water.

Oxytocin helps women get through labour by stimulating uterine contractions, which is why it's sometimes administered (as Pitocin) during labor.

The «redeeming» home birth Yet Hatherall finds there is «another group of women who have previously had an experience in the hospital (usually related to birth) which has been traumatic for them, and they want to be in control of their experience» for their subsequent labour and delivery.

Women who have been traumatised are finding their voice, as in this recent article, in which several women, including Toni Harman from One World Birth, speak about the terrible treatment they suffered during labour and birth, including being shouted at, having their wishes ignored or belittled, and feeling as if they were being rWomen who have been traumatised are finding their voice, as in this recent article, in which several women, including Toni Harman from One World Birth, speak about the terrible treatment they suffered during labour and birth, including being shouted at, having their wishes ignored or belittled, and feeling as if they were being rwomen, including Toni Harman from One World Birth, speak about the terrible treatment they suffered during labour and birth, including being shouted at, having their wishes ignored or belittled, and feeling as if they were being raped.

Jones says: «In the 1960s, the consultant - controlled maternity units introduced a policy of «active management of labour (AML)», which ensured pregnant women lost all power over childbirth.»

In the final weeks of pregnancy it is not uncommon for the pregnant body to have some warm - ups, which can sometimes mean women can think labour is beginning and then find it all suddenly stops!

But it added: «Women need to be counselled on the unexpected emergencies — such as cord prolapse, fetal heart rate abnormalities, undiagnosed breech, prolonged labour and postpartum haemorrhage — which can arise during labour and can only be managed in a maternity hospital.

If it is due to the way in which labour is managed in hospital, changes should be made to practices which compromise the safety of labouring women.

Women who feel more in control in the reading I have done relate it to things like ambulatory ability, acceptability of vocalising their pain, social control (i.e. who is present at the birth), environmental control and comfort — leading them to feel more mentally able to cope with labour and being more in control of themselves which is often highlighted as a definer of a good birth experience.

Most pregnancies go to full term, which means that a woman will go into spontaneous labour some time between the 37 and 42 week mark.

In the subgroup analysis in which we excluded women whose labour was induced by outpatient administration of prostaglandins, amniotomy or both (118 [4.1 %] of women in the home - birth group, 344 [7.2 %] of those who planned a midwife - attended hospital birth and 778 [14.6 %] of those who planned a physician - attended hospital birth), the relative risks of obstetric interventions and adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes did not change significantly.

Absent fetal heart beat discovered during labour, after which the woman was referred to secondary care, could have been classified as antepartum deaths, whereas we classified these according to the course of labour into antepartum or intrapartum death.

I don't know why I respond to the irrational, but I delivery about 200 babies a year, with a primary Cesarean section rate of 12 % (including women who choose an elective cesarean delivery, which is their right as AUTONOMOUS HUMAN BEINGS), and deliver about 1 baby per week, about 40 - 50 per year, to women who have NO interventions in labour.

For 294 women (13.8 %) the birth notifications indicated obstetric referral before the onset of labour, which was an exclusion criterion, and for another 171 (8.0 %) information from the midwives could not be checked against birth notifications because they were not available.

Sometimes it can delay by a few days, which usually makes a woman desperate to go into labour since if it delays further, it means staring at having a C - section.

Corbyn spoke in a way that was absolutely unprecedented about the rights of women, which he placed at the heart of both this speech and future Labour policy.

The protest which was organized by a non-governmental organization, Be The Change Organization (BCO) also saw labour unions, Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), artisans, market women, youth organizations and student bodies taking part.

From the 1970s, Harriet campaigned for increased women's representation in the Labour Party - more women Labour councillors, more women Labour MPs and for a Labour leadership team of three of which at least one should be a woman.

Worryingly for Labour, which spent considerable energy highlighting Mr Cameron's alleged problem with women, the majority of female voters now prefer the prime minister, by 40 % to 38 %.

Not going to lie, it was tough for us Labour feminists to see two blokes wanging on about women's issues from scripts which leave most us cold.

This was particularly important in the context of the failure of the majority of Labour's new women MPs to represent women's interests — and the divisive use to which this was put by the government.

At the carefully stage - managed Labour women's training conference in mid-July, defence of the proposals by Baroness Hollis and new Labour MP and ex-NUS president Lorna Fitzsimons as not pleasant but «necessary» contrasted with a well attended and heated Labour Women's Action Committee (LWAC) meeting addressed by Audrey Wise MP, which effectively launched the campaign within the Labour Party to save lone parent benewomen's training conference in mid-July, defence of the proposals by Baroness Hollis and new Labour MP and ex-NUS president Lorna Fitzsimons as not pleasant but «necessary» contrasted with a well attended and heated Labour Women's Action Committee (LWAC) meeting addressed by Audrey Wise MP, which effectively launched the campaign within the Labour Party to save lone parent beneWomen's Action Committee (LWAC) meeting addressed by Audrey Wise MP, which effectively launched the campaign within the Labour Party to save lone parent benefits.

In fact, as the Labour MP Gisela Stuart has pointed out, many of the rights for workers and women which are credited to our EU membership were actually initiatives of Labour governments.

Harriet Harman, women's minister and Labour's deputy leader, re-opened the prostitution debate yesterday by backing a total ban on prostitution, which she argued would reduce the demand for trafficked women.

The joint letter criticises the Labour leader for his «inadequate» response to «Rape threats, death threats, smashed cars and bricks through windows» which have «disproportionately affected» women.

But Mr Smith told the BBC in July: «We have had a massive problem recently with misogyny and intolerance in the party, anti-Semitism, racism and the awful way in which women in the Labour movement have been treated.

Finally, the Liberal Democrats offer the widest variety of policies targeted at women (in keeping with their manifesto, which is almost twice the length of Labour's and by far the most detailed of the party manifestos).

The comments, which were clumsy at best and callous at worst, are being linked to previous occasions when the Labour challenger has made controversial statements about women.

It is why we have All Women Shortlists which have transformed the representation of women among MPs, now at 33 % Labour and riWomen Shortlists which have transformed the representation of women among MPs, now at 33 % Labour and riwomen among MPs, now at 33 % Labour and rising.

However, many Labour MPs are increasingly losing patience with Serco after a steady stream of damaging stories from Yarl's Wood, which deals mostly with women detainees awaiting deportation.

Rumours have been rife that Labour will today pick an all - women and all - BME shortlist for the contest, from which Lewisham East members will select their chosen candidate this weekend.

This compared with equivalent Labour conference events, where 39 % of speakers were women, and the Liberal Democrat fringe talks, which were 35 % female.

Members of Labour's shadow cabinet have praised Barking and Dagenham Council for a scheme which involves naming new roads after service men and women killed in action.

Labour, which pioneered the use of all - women shortlists, initially brought the lists in on a voluntary basis.