The online site, Nurse.com published a review yesterday of an article recently published in the nursing journal Nursing for Women’s Health. Click here to read the entire review of the article. The article focuses on the role of nurses in lowering the rate of elective cesarean deliveries while also exploring the long term ramifications of primary and repeat elective cesareans. According to the review, the article also discusses the effects of elective cesareans on the infant, such as the risk of premature delivery and respiratory challenges and discusses strategies which care providers can implement in order to achieve better clinical, functional and financial outcomes for mothers and their babies.
The entire article is available for purchase here.
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I’d say they have a role in reducing cesareans in general, too.
When my OB started sending me for fetal monitoring sessions as a precaution after my due date, a few of the nurses hinted that he was overly cautious. I might not have trusted my gut enough to try and prove him wrong when he started pressuring me to induce if I didn’t deliver by 41 wks. And it meant so much to have my overnight nurses support me when I turned down a c/s only 3 or 4 hours after my water broke (I didn’t know about doulas then, and my husband’s support felt “empty” without much knowledge of birth behind it).
I didn’t find the information I needed to refuse the induction and I still agreed to the c/s the next morning -neither of which I’m happy about now that I know more- but I’m grateful for the difference the nurses did make, especially given how often I hear stories of nurses being just as likely as the OBs to stare women down until they agree to various interventions.