ASK: What are side effects of a spinal anesthesia when used in labor &...
ANESTHESIA ESSENTIAL INFORMATION SERIES
ANSWER: "Side effects from spinal anesthesia are very similar to the side effects experienced during labor analgesia. Those would include blood...
ASK: Are there common ways a doctor would try to persuade me into a...
C-Section Persuasion
(Transcript) The mother is vulnerable. She can come in their birth photog, birth Doula, obstetrician, midwife, family history when she is in that...
ASK: My doctor or midwife wants me to be induced, I’m not sure I...
My Doctor Wants To Induce Me, What Should I Do?
Transcript: "A question like that probably has multiple layers to it all, but it actually...
ASK: What are some medical reasons for induction?
Childbirth Induction Essential Info
ANSWER: "Medically, often times an induction is recommended when the mom will go over her due date, which as a reminder is...
ASK: Should I schedule my induction for social reasons?
TRANSCRIPT OF ANSWER
You also see inductions done for what I think are social reasons. Sometimes there's a convenience factor regarding maybe family-related issues and/or...
ASK: What happens to my body when I get an induction?
TRANSCRIPT OF ANSWER
Aspects of an induction that need to be appreciated, one is are they appropriate indications for it and then if they are,...
ASK: Do I need an induction if I have low amniotic fluid?
TRANSCRIPT TO ANSWER
Yeah, I mean I'll tell you what amniotic fluid looks like. It looks like it's a fluid situation, meaning that sometimes it's high,...
SHARE: Being 43 weeks pregnant is still a woman’s choice
TRANSCRIPT OF ANSWER
She is 43 weeks in three days. She wants to be induced about four weeks, 39 weeks. Here we are now Forty-three...
ASK: What is a family centered Cesarean?
TRANSCRIPT TO ANSWER
Wonderful question. We get asked that a lot, we call it actually family-centered. It's Assyrian. A key piece being that the mother,...
ASK: What is Maternal Fetal Medicine or MFM?
ANSWER: "Ah maternal fetal medicine, the science of obstetrics. I'm going to say maternal fetal medicine; The common description is the high risk doctor,...
