Rupturing the membranes, more commonly known as breaking your water. If your cervix is already somewhat dilated and your body just needs a little help, your practitioner can insert her finger through the cervix and manually separate your amniotic sac from the lower part of your uterus. Your caregiver will insert the medication into your vagina to help your cervix dilate. Prostaglandins are also available as a medication in several forms, including a pill and a gel. This stimulates the release of prostaglandins – hormones that cause the cervix to open and soften. The balloon is then inflated, which puts pressure on your cervix and amniotic sac. Your practitioner may insert a tube with a very small, uninflated balloon at the tip into the opening of your cervix, demonstrated here with this curled-up hand. If your labor needs to be induced, you may be treated with one or more of the following in the hospital:Ī foley catheter. There are a number of methods available to medically induce or ripen the cervix to get your labor moving. Or you or your baby face medical issues that pose a health threat, which is the case for Cheryl.Ĭheryl has an antibody in her blood that could harm her baby, so the induction is a precautionary measure to help avoid any problems. Your water breaks, but your labor doesn't start. You are a week or more past your due date, and you show no or slow signs of cervical dilation and labor.
Narrator: Your doctor or midwife may choose to induce your labor for a number of reasons: As the cervix dilates, the labor progresses and ultimately the baby's delivered vaginally. Contractions hopefully will cause cervical dilatation. Carapellotti: We actually induce contractions. Richard Carapellotti, Cheryl's obstetrician.ĭr. There are many forms of induction but all have the same goal, says Dr. Today, Cheryl – 39 weeks pregnant – has arrived for her scheduled induction at Abington Memorial Hospital, in Abington, Pennsylvania. If you don't think any of the above situations apply, you can use this feedback form to request a review of this block.Narrator: Sometimes your body needs a little jumpstart to kick into labor. Contact your IT department and let them know that they've gotten banned, and to have them let us know when they've addressed the issue.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from an area that filters all traffic through a single proxy server (like Singapore or Malaysia), or are you on a mobile connection that seems to be randomly blocked every few pages? Then we'll definitely want to look into it - please let us know about it here. You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it.
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