Labor
Epidural Plus Fever During Labor Put Baby at Risk
From: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Anesthesiology/Anesthesiology/30914 Epidural Plus Fever During Labor Put Baby at Risk By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage TodayPublished: January 30, 2012 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner Action Points A temperature spike during labor with epidural analgesia may indicate…
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Babies fit best when they come out facing your back. Lately there has been a rush on “sunny side up” babies where they are pushing their bony little heads into that tailbone of yours. This can cause undo pain called “back labor”. There are a few reasons these babies are spinning out of control… Being…
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My family is currently experiencing what I believe to be the throws of transition… So it got me thinking about birth (of course), because what we’re doing is birthing a new day for our household. For a couple of years now we have been juggling the idea of actually settling into Rochester, finding that ‘permanent…
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