Episiotomy and the Second Stage of Labor

by Sheila Kitzinger

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937604070
• ISBN13: 9780937604076
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Pennypress
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An excellent resource to share with your OB

Episiotomy and the Second Stage of Labor is an excellent resource to bring to a prenatal visit & share with your doctor (if you have chosen a Midwife for a birth attendant, she has already read it!). The nature of the presentation (technical) is ideally suited to a modern MD's evidence-based education style & they will appreciate all the publication/study references. After reading the rationalles against this all-too often used intervention, it is a wonder any practitioner will continue to apply this method to most or all laboring women. Episiotomy CAN be a very useful tool to expedite delivery, especially in the event of poor fetal heart rate response to pushing, etc but to use it as a routine is a shame. Many a prolapsed uterus has an episiotomy to thank for it's existance! (yes, I was a Midwife for 12 years!)