Painless Labor
What makes childbirth painless? It is the administration of an epidural. While many mothers to be swear by it, there are others who want to go through the whole experience of labor and delivery naturally. An epidural is an injection of an anesthetic into the spine (epidural area).
- The truth is that labor pain is the mother of all pains, and if you can experience a positive childbirth experience minus the pain — why not? Epidurals help a woman cope better with post-partum depression or exhaustion better.
- An epidural helps if your baby is not facing your backbone, and is not moving from the position in which it faces the belly button. The epidural injection will relax your vaginal muscles and provide space for the baby to descend.
- A painless delivery by way of an epidural means there is a dip in the blood pressure of the mother. This is a benefit, because in natural labor, the mother has high BP and there are risks of the pressure reaching dangerously high levels and ending in a stroke.
- An epidural makes it easy if the doctor has to carry out a forceps delivery or when an emergency C-section is needed.
- Studies show that epidurals prevent damage that would otherwise occur to the pelvic muscles during a normal delivery.
Anesthesiology & Critical Care
The department of Anaesthesiology and critical care of craft hospital perinthalmanna is equipped with latest state of the art anaesthetic Equipments and hemodynamic monitoring systems. It offers expert pre operative evaluation, post operative care, pain relief for chronic disease and painless labour. Our surgical ICU is managed by specially trained intensive care and nursing staff utilising latest model ventilators and monitoring devices.
