Sentences with phrase «with electronic fetal monitoring»

He argues that «most of the fetuses identified as being at risk of hypoxia are not» and highlights a review of trial data for nearly 37,000 women that found no difference in perinatal mortality between labours with electronic fetal monitoring versus intermittent auscultation.

The signs of oxygen deprivation would likely have been diagnosed with electronic fetal monitoring.

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I have read hundreds of studies that give me confidence to say — no, don't cut the cord right away or no, please only monitor the baby intermitently (electronic fetal monitors DO NOT statisitically save babies, have a high false positve rate, and are associated with higher rates of pain medication, pitocin, and C section).

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However know that throughout the process your baby will be continuously monitored via electronic fetal monitoring, which will help your practitioner to assess how he or she is dealing with the stress of induced labor and take steps to protect both of you.

In the era of electronic fetal monitoring, among neonates born to nulliparous women, adverse neonatal outcomes generally have not been associated with the duration of the second stage of labor.

The biggest problem being cesarean surgery and operative vaginal births increase when the electronic fetal monitor is used, but the babies don't do any better than babies who had their heart rate measured every 15 minutes with a stethoscope.

What is most unsettling is that many of the heart rate abnormalities are easily resolved with simple measures such as position changes, which the mother is hindered from doing while attached to the electronic fetal monitor.

Compared with women who planned a hospital birth with a midwife or physician in attendance, those who planned a home birth were significantly less likely to experience any of the obstetric interventions we assessed, including electronic fetal monitoring, augmentation of labour, assisted vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery and episiotomy (Table 3).

The rate of electronic fetal monitoring, C - sections, forceps or vacuum delivery, and epidurals were also much lower with home births.

Women who have a CNM with them during labor and delivery have fewer interventions, such as continuous electronic fetal monitoring, epidurals, and episiotomies, without any difference in the outcomes for women or their babies.

But Peter Brocklehurst, Professor of women's health at Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, says «the more we use electronic fetal monitoring, the more harm we do, with little evidence of benefit.»