Sentences with phrase «with uncomplicated pregnancies»

Immersion in water during the first stage of labor may be associated with shorter labor and decreased use of spinal and epidural analgesia and may be offered to healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies between 37 0/7 weeks and 41 6/7 weeks of gestation.

Several professional organizations, including the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the American College of Nurse — Midwives, support healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies laboring and giving birth in water (5, 6).

Here's the bottom line: I think if a woman with an uncomplicated pregnancy desires an un-medicated birth and is well prepared for that (has a birth plan and labor support, has practiced and has a method for natural labor) and has thought through the IV process and decides against it, I would support that decision.

Women with uncomplicated pregnancies should also have the right to refuse being monitored to anything that could prevent movement.

Independent practicing midwives provide care to healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies, referred to as «midwife - led care».

Both The American College of Nurse Midwives and The American Association of Birth Centers state that labor and birth in water can be safely offered to women with uncomplicated pregnancies and may be especially useful for women who prefer natural childbirth without pain medications.

Birthing centers, usually located near a hospital, allow women with uncomplicated pregnancies to deliver there.

Back in 2006, The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives said they both «support labouring in water for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies».

In the Dutch maternity care system midwives are qualified to provide independent care for women with uncomplicated pregnancies.1 2 They also identify and select the women who, because of existing or anticipated problems, require care from an obstetrician.1 3 Twenty five years ago, women receiving primary care all gave birth at home, but since the 1970s they have been able to choose between home birth and hospital birth under the care of a midwife or general practitioner.

In a recent study, she and colleagues compared blood samples from 46 pregnant women diagnosed with preeclampsia with samples from 47 women with uncomplicated pregnancies.