Birth-canal Sentence Examples

Taking a deep breath, she hesitantly inserted her hand into the birth canal and carefully slid it along the tiny leg until she felt the muzzle.

These contractions are working to open and thin out your cervix to ready the birth canal for the delivery of your baby.

Your baby may drop into the birth canal and begin making her way towards your cervix.

The baby does not travel through the birth canal so the fluids are not pushed out of the lungs during the delivery, and the babies do not have the same hormonal changes as those who undergo vaginal births.

Keep in mind, however, that your baby's head could have a misshapen appearance simply because of her journey through the birth canal or because of the use of forceps to assist with the birth.

The baby's head is through the cervix and on its way down the birth canal.

Research has shown, however, that the contractions will continue to push the baby down the birth canal without mother's help.

The others include complete breech, in which the baby's legs are crossed under and in front of the body, and footling breech, in which one leg or both legs are positioned to enter the birth canal.

Although not used as much in the early 2000s as in earlier times, forceps can be used if the baby's head is very low in the birth canal.

When both forceps are in place, the doctor pulls on them to help the baby through the birth canal during a uterine contraction.

A pump then creates suction that gently pulls on the cup to ease the baby out the birth canal.

This can add to labor and delivery problems because the baby's bottom doesn't mold a passage through the birth canal as well as does the head.

Initiating antibiotic therapy at least four hours before birth allows medication to become concentrated enough to protect the baby during passage through the birth canal.

This greatly reduces the chance of GBS being transmitted from mother to baby when the baby is in the birth canal.

Brachial plexopathy occurs most often during birth, when an infant's neck and shoulders are stretched apart during passage through the birth canal.

An infant's head and neck are pulled to one side while the shoulders pass through the birth canal.

An infant's shoulder is too large to fit easily through the birth canal (shoulder dystocia).

Newborns may become infected during delivery through an infected birth canal.

A baby may also get the herpes virus passing through the birth canal if the mother has genital herpes.

Breech presentation-The condition in which the baby enters the birth canal with its buttocks or feet first.

An incomplete breech, also known as a footling breech, presents with one or both legs down so that the feet drop into the birth canal at delivery.

In addition, when the baby's head comes first, the soft bones of the skull "mold" to the shape of the birth canal during labor (which is what gives newborns that cone-headed appearance).

In some cases of breech birth, part of the umbilical cord enters the birth canal before or with the baby's feet or buttocks and pressure on the cord cuts off the blood and oxygen supply.

In neonates, pneumonia may result from colonization of the infant's nasopharynx by organisms that were in the birth canal at the time of delivery.

The child may acquire the disease organism as it passes through the mother's birth canal or from the hospital environment.

Even if the baby is able to be born vaginally, dislocated shoulders and broken collarbones are possible complications of a too-large baby passing though the birth canal.

The force of gravity pulls the weight of the baby further towards the birth canal and can help to begin or speed up effacement and dilation.

Twins can be delivered naturally through the birth canal without undue harm to either infant in many cases.

Those born vaginally will often have a cone shape to their heads due to the pressure of going through the birth canal.

This is often accompanied by the mucus plug, which is a thick piece of tissue that sits at the bottom of the uterus, blocking the baby from the birth canal.

Braxton Hicks contractions feel like the real thing, but they are not effective in moving the baby down the birth canal.

The contractions thin out and dilate the cervix; they also help the baby descend into the birth canal.

The cervix is completely dilated and the baby is in the birth canal.

The highest herpes risk to the infant mostly occurs when the baby passes through the birth canal as he may be exposed to herpes lesions.

As you walk, you will jostle the baby around and gravity may bring the baby down into position in the birth canal.