Being A Woman 's Body

Giving birth should be a beautiful experience even though delivery can be terrifying and discomfort. Even though women have the decision to choose between having a natural childbirth or get an epidural majority of women give birth at a hospital get an epidural. Make sure when you base your decision on what’s best for your infant and not base off anyone influencing you. What constitutes a “Natural childbirth”? A natural childbirth is when a woman gives birth without any medication. You can choose between having a mid-wife and having an at home birth or you can give birth at the hospital without any medication either way is consider giving natural childbirth. According to Kristeen, an epidural is drugs called local anesthetics, such as bupivacaine, chloroprocaine, or liocaine it numbs the abdomen or pelvic region during labor. An epidural is given when the women is about 4 or 5 centimeters dilated (Cherney, par.2-6). In order to get an epidural you have to get a shot in your spine (lower back). In 1909, the first caudal anaesthesia was given for labor pains by a German obstetrical, Walter Stoeckel, and he study 141 cases of healthy laboring women with epidurals. In 1931, the first catheter was used in an epidural. By the 1940s, epidural were being used sporadically for labor but did not gain true momentum until the 1970s. This was in large part due to the fact that other

According to the American Pregnancy organization “more than 50% of woman giving birth at hospitals use Epidural Anesthesia”. These women turn to epidural to relieve the pain of labor; however this decision poses many risks to both mother and child. An epidural is a type of regional anesthesia where pain medication is administered to the lumbar and sacral region of the back near clusters of nerves. The placement allows for nerve impulses to be blocked from the lower regions of the body resulting in decreased sensations. Although the epidural is known for taking pain away it could very well cause it too. Epidurals include the use of various narcotics and have side effects like hypotension, fever, fetal malposition, decreased fetal heart rate, respiratory depression, breastfeeding complications, an increased likelihood of operative vaginal delivery and cesarean and many more. These are the effects faced in result to a procedure that is not definite to work. In Fact “One in every 8 women” (OAA) will experience inadequate pain relief and must venture to other means of medication. Therefore, mothers should abstain from epidural anesthesia due to the risks it poses to themselves and to the fetus.

According to “Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America,” women and couples planning the birth of a child have decisions to make in variety of areas: place of birth, birth attendant(s), medication, preparedness classes, circumcision, breast feeding, etc. The “childbirth market” has responded to consumer concerns, so its’ important for prospective consumers to fully understand their options. With that being said, a woman has the choice to birth her child either at a hospital or at home. There are several differences when it comes to hospital births and non-hospital births.

There are several people that cannot make up their mind. Things do not go as planned and spontaneous things just occur. During pregnancy, the mothers plan their birth plan and the procedure that they would like. Things just happen, and they need to change their plans. There are several debates on the best birth plan. With continuous debates on epidural and natural childbirth, it is difficult to see if one or the other has more benefits. Further investigation will reveal the facts and science along with experiences with epidural and natural childbirth. If there are less factors that cause harm using epidural than natural birth, then they will prefer epidural over natural birth.

It is unfair to the newborn to reap consequences because the mother decided to receive a pain free delivery. Epidurals take 2.7 hours to leave an adult body but it takes over 8 hours for a newborn. Some babies still had the epidural medication within their bloodstream up to 30 hours later. If an epidural causes immobility within in the women, then it causes the same for the baby. It causes the baby to become lethargic, decrease its heart rate, and poor latching after birth. No mother wants their baby to suffer. Doctor fail to tell women how a medicated assist birth can cause more complication than assistants. The epidural causes labor to decrease which causes an increased risk for the doctor to have to use delivery instruments. The use of delivery instruments such as birthing vacuum or forceps increase the chance of injuring the baby. Short term bruising, facial injuries, and displacement of skull bones have occurred with the use of the delivery instruments. This can simply be avoided by women having non-medicated births. Not everyone would

This article, Natural Childbirth doesn’t have to be a painful delivery written by Janelle green emphasizes that woman’s body is designed to birth babies and so, natural childbirth must be considered as a natural event. Natural childbirth (NCB) means laboring and delivering using no medication at all, rather depending on non-drug pain relief, such as hydrotherapy (using water in a shower or tub), massaging, breathing, visualization, meditation, position changes, and hypnosis. Moreover, non-drug pain relief methods are efficient due to these techniques interfere the sensory pathways to the brain that communicate pain, and also, this reducing catecholamines; so, can help the labor more calm and manageable. Experiencing labor pain doesn’t mean

Epidural anaesthesia is an advance in pain management during labor, which ensures that a pregnant woman has a comfortable labor. It is a regional anaesthesia in which an anaesthetic drug is injected near the spinal cord in the spinal canal. Nowadays, it is being commonly opted, by pregnant ladies, because of its painless benefits, but the method also has mild chances of certain complications.

Imagine being in the most excruciating pain you have ever felt in your life, but you have to consider the well-being of your unborn child. Do you decide to receive medication for the pain, or do you opt out to take extra precaution for your little one? An epidural is a procedure in which a fine tube is inserted in the small of your back and pain killing medications are administered. Most people go back and forth on this subject. Some mothers have a lower pain tolerance and want the epidural, but other mothers feel as though it is not the best option for pain control. Some reasons mothers avoid epidurals are because they limit the mother’s movement, can increase the risk of fever and infections, and can lower blood pressure. An epidural may

Pain medication may seem like a good thing hearing about it, but the side effects have serious side effects. One of the most common pain medications used is Demerol which “can cause drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, respiratory depression, and maternal hypotension (low blood pressure).”(Using). Another reason that pain medication is harmful is that if you time it incorrectly it could cause major damage to the mother and child. You have to time it right because “administration of pain medication or anesthetics should be delayed until the active phase of labor begins... to[avoid] [slowing] down or [stopping] the labor”.(Turkington) and these are just a

Patients have a choice to deliver their babies without any form of pain medication and having a natural delivery is a painful process. Many women view this process as the worst pain they have ever experienced in their lifetime (Sng et al., 2014). The laboring process starts out as mild to severe pain. When the level of pain becomes unbearable, patients often seek out ways to relieve their pain and often times, it is done through epidural analgesia. The controversial issue among pregnant women is knowing when the correct time to request an epidural. The aim of this review is to provide evidence base information on the safety of early initiation versus late initiation of epidural analgesia and its maternal and fetal outcome (Sng et al., 2014). The relevance of this topic is to see if epidural timing can cause an effect on the laboring process such as increasing the risk of caesarean

Hannah and Chlovetta you guys all bring interesting points. I do agree with you with the risks associated with using pain relieving medications during labor. All decisions including the use of pain relieving medication prior to labor should be a joint one. However since everyone experiences pain differently and it is the woman experiecieng that pain at the moment, she can choose to decide to use pain relieving medication as she wishes. It takes two to have a child and I definitely I agree but it takes only the woman to experience that excruciating pain during labor. Chlovetta did bring up a good p[point about the role of the father during that painful moment to constantly remind the woman of their mutual decision and well being of their

Physical changes to a woman’s body during pregnancy can have affects on the entire body’s organ systems. These changes affect the amount and duration of intravenous and inhalational anesthetic agents needed (Turner and Malinow, p. 160-161, 2010). As anesthesia providers, accurate mathematical skills are important to utilize in order to calculate and administer correct dosages of drugs to pregnant women. The type of agent being administered will determine if a higher or lower dose of the agent is needed compared to normal dosages in non-pregnant women (Chestnut et al., p. 31, 2014).

The only con there really is to natural childbirth would be that it is painful. However, if a pregnant woman does not deal well with pain or if she has a complicated delivery, an epidural might be an answer for her.

During delivery the fetus undergoes both intense physical and emotional stresses. Throughout the birthing process, the fetus’s muscles and connective tissues, especially within the head and neck, can become restricted and cramped, which in turn causes physical tension on the fetus (Kaplan, 2010). During birth, the fetus can develop structural changes that can either be harmful or benign. The probability of this sort of complication increases during prolonged labors, especially with the use of Pitocin, the use of forceps, or when vacuum extractions are used. During the vaginal delivery process, the fetus’s head is passed through a much smaller passageway then the size of the head, so in response, the bones in the skull will overlap to try and compensate and decrease the size of the fetus’s head to be able to fit, and sometimes this change is not reversed on it’s own after delivery. Also, the fetus’s head is bent backwards while traveling through the birth canal. This puts significant pressure on three nerves: the vagal nerve, the hypoglossal nerve, and the glossopharyngeal nerve, which may lead to issues involving the sucking reflex and ineffective latch during feedings (Sorrel, 2014). Osteopathic manipulation medicine may be helpful in resolving problems associated with the birthing process that the newborn may

The information gained from the study by Laughon et al., (2014) reports that of 103,415 women, 76% of them had an epidural and 6.7% of those women endured a prolonged labor. Although the number of women to experienced prolonged labor from the analgesia was small, those women experienced more issues like chorioamnionitis, post partum hemorrhage, and larger tears or episiotomy’s than those without the prolonged labor. Other research articles discovered that analgesia did not have an effect on the length of