| Among private patients with an epidural, the most likely birth outcome was an instrumental delivery with an episiotomy. |
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| If instruments are needed for the delivery, a vacuum extractor is less likely to lead to an episiotomy than are forceps. |
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| Sometimes an episiotomy can be avoided simply by choosing a different position for the delivery, for example, kneeling, on all fours, or a supported squat. |
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| If a Caesarean section is not appropriate, for example because the baby's head is already moving down the birth canal, an episiotomy can be the best way to speed up birth. |
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| This patient had been induced for maternal hypertension and had laboured well with a Pit drip and had a spontaneous vertex delivery without an episiotomy. |
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| There is some evidence that the pain and discomfort of an episiotomy can interfere with the bonding between mother and child in the early days after birth. |
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| I ended up having an episiotomy and a ventouse – procedures Nice is suggesting I could have avoided if I had stayed at home. |
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| Pregnant women may be able to shorten their labor and delivery times and risk of episiotomy by strengthening their pelvic-floor muscles in advance. |
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| The practice of suturing includes suturing of the wound following an episiotomy and a simple perineal laceration. |
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| Women giving birth for the first time were more likely to have had an episiotomy. |
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| When your baby's head appears, or crowns, a doctor makes the episiotomy, if one is needed. |
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| The training is recommendable for all pregnant women, whether expecting a first child or after several births, whether there was once a birth with an intact perineum or with a perineal tear or an episiotomy. |
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| Eventually the pressure became too much, I abandoned my home birth plan and my baby was born in a more conventional way – forceps, episiotomy, feet in stirrups. |
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| Abominable practices stayed in place after 1989, treating birth as a medical emergency in which painful and humiliating procedures such as episiotomy, shaving and enemas were mandatory. |
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| The pudendal block is a relatively simple and common procedure that numbs the birth canal and perineum for spontaneous delivery, forceps delivery, vacuum extraction, and episiotomy. |
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| Amy Herbst, who previously performed with the Nashville Opera Company, claims that a nurse-midwife at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, performed an episiotomy during labour without her consent. |
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| The morphine levels in the mother's milk were found to be abnormally high after taking small doses of codeine prescribed to treat pain for an episiotomy. |
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| Performance of episiotomy and initiation into suturing. |
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| Women used to think that midwives would cut them open, using episiotomy. |
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| The following eight hours were the worst of my life that haven't ended in an episiotomy. |
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| Episiotomy is used more often in births that require the use of instruments such as forceps or suction, than in unassisted births. |
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| Episiotomy was invented to facilitate forceps deliveries and has continued mainly out of habit not necessity. |
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