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  2. Vacuum extraction - Wikipedia

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    Vacuum extraction (VE), also known as ventouse, is a method to assist delivery of a baby using a vacuum device. It is used in the second stage of labor if it has not progressed adequately. It may be an alternative to a forceps delivery and caesarean section. It cannot be used when the baby is in the breech position or for premature births.

  3. Childbirth - Wikipedia

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    The baby will receive no supplementation without a medical reason; All testing, bathing or other procedures are done in the parent's room [73] It has long been known that a mother's level of the hormone oxytocin elevates in a mother when she interacts with her infant. In 2019, a large review of the effects of oxytocin found that the oxytocin ...

  4. Childbirth in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    A partogram is recommended to facilitate monitoring during labor. [33] During the second stage of labor, women are encouraged to assume the most comfortable position. [33] In the second stage of labor fetal heart rate should be assessed every 15 minutes and the fetal heart rate should be assessed after each contraction while bearing down. [33]

  5. Montevideo units - Wikipedia

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    during the 10 minute period of measurement 3 contractions occurred; subtract the resting tone from the peak intensity of the contraction; add the 3 contractions together to get the MVUs; Montevideo units are calculated by obtaining the peak uterine pressure amplitude and subtracting the resting tone.

  6. Vaginal delivery - Wikipedia

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    A spontaneous vaginal delivery (SVD) occurs when a pregnant woman goes into labor without the use of drugs or techniques to induce labor and delivers their baby without forceps, vacuum extraction, or a cesarean section. [1] An induced vaginal delivery is a delivery involving labor induction, where drugs or manual techniques are used to initiate ...

  7. Childbirth in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    In addition, postpartum care centers are tasked with sleeping, bathing, and checking the mother's health care. The postpartum care center owned by the Korean government was 1.9 million won as of 2016, and the national average postpartum care center charge was 2.47 million won as of June 2018, announced by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

  8. Louise Brown, the first 'test tube baby,' is 45. Here's how ...

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    On July 25, 1978, the world's first "test tube baby" was born. Louise Brown was the first person conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and her birth eventually led to one of her doctors ...

  9. Obstetrical forceps - Wikipedia

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    Usually the male doctor's job was to save the mother's life if, for example, the baby had become stuck on his or her way exiting the mother. Before the obstetrical forceps, this had to be done by cutting the baby out piece by piece. In other cases, if the baby was deemed undeliverable, then the doctor would use a tool called a crochet.