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10/06/2019

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shares: "MAKE YOUR HOSPITAL ROOM WORK FOR YOU!! 💯 .
My friend and I wanted to show you some examples of ways that your hospital bed can transform and assist you with the progression of labor. 🛏
1. Throne/chair position. This is great for people who are laboring down with an epidural, or for people who just need to sit and take a quick break. (Some like to push their babies out sitting upward like this, leaning against the bed, or the lap of their partner sitting behind them).
2. Hands and knees. This is a great position for OP (posterior, and also big) babies/back labor. A lot of laboring patients find hands and knees more comfortable! (Alternating lunges with one leg up, foot on bed in front, creates even more space in the birth canal, and helps baby come down and out.)
3. Side lying with your leg resting in the stirrup. This position is great for opening up the pelvis and allowing the baby to move down. Quick note: I would not feel comfortable with my patient staying in this position/on one side for too long (so it is good to switch sides periodically). I also would be cautious in using this with patients who have an epidural because they may not feel sensations of discomfort if this position is not serving them.
4. Squatting with a squat bar attached. Many facilities have squat bars that attach to beds. Upright positions can help encourage stronger contractions and help move baby down. Quick note: I would have a support person remain at the bedside to ensure that the laboring person does not lose balance. .
Any other ways that you have utilized hospital beds to work FOR you? Let me know! I can think of several more.... 👇🏻👇🏻"

09/23/2019

this is awesome!!

09/20/2019

The baby and her placenta is called the Feto-Placental Unit, and blood circulates within that unit while she is growing in the womb. In the middle of your pregnancy, because the placenta is almost as big as the baby, blood is equally distributed between the two. Gradually, the baby gets bigger than the placenta, so that by the end of the pregnancy, the baby's body holds two thirds of her blood, and the placenta holds one third.

On the onset of birth, a powerful surge of placental transfusion to the baby begins. If you have seen birth photos, you can tell from an engorged cord that the birth has just occurred. Within twenty minutes, the natural transfusion has occurred and most cords are limp and drained.

What happens with practice of immediate cord cutting is that body's oxygen carrying capacity is significantly diminished.

In a grown-up body, we have a name for this kind of condition. A loss of thirty to forty percent of your total blood volume is a called a Class 3 Hemorrhagic Shock. It is an emergency, with the risk of damaging tissues, organs and brain cells for the lack of this vital oxygen. The treatment for this is a blood transfusion.

There is rarely a reason to immediately clamp and cut the cord. Even a baby requiring resuscitation will significantly benefit from being left attached to the cord/placenta during rescue procedures and nearly all procedures can and should be done bedside, with an intact cord.

Immediate cord clamping isn’t the physiologic norm and should be treated as the modern medical experiment that it is.

06/27/2019

Awesome Doc!!

Another amazing obstetrician in action. Another hospital birth happening out-of-the-bed. Dr. White is the bee’s knees. 🙌 Parkside Ob-Gyn