Childbirth can be a beautiful and rewarding experience. However, even in the best of situations, it can also be traumatic for both mother and baby. That can be especially true in cases where medical ...

A vacuum extraction is a procedure sometimes done during vaginal childbirth to help guide the baby out of the birth canal. The device has a soft or rigid cup with a vacuum pump. It is typically done ...

Assisted vaginal birth refers to the use of a specially designed instrument to help with delivery during the last part of labor. It is also referred to as operative vaginal delivery, and accounts for ...

Western Sydney University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. There are three ways a baby can be born: a spontaneous vaginal birth where the mother pushes the baby out herself, an ...

It is used when there is a delay in the second stage of labour, but where an easy delivery is anticipated. Although some doctors say that the cervix does not need to be fully dilated before vacuum ...

When Jenae Hull wrote her birthing plan for her first baby, she couldn’t have foreseen what would happen. Nobody could have – including the certified nurse midwives at UCHealth OB/Gyn in Greeley who ...

Jason Kennedy has paid tribute to his wife, Lauren Scruggs, three weeks after the birth of their first child, revealing she had to have a vacuum extraction during delivery and suffered a fourth-degree ...