#398 Bandl's Ring, like life itself, is perplexing
Birthing Instincts
Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young
4.5 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Before getting into today's topic, Blyss and Dr. Stu discuss the maternity care crisis in California that has been impacting local birth centers. They explain Bandl's Ring more in-depth and explain how it's detected. Bandl's Ring is a constriction in the uterus and a sign of obstructed labor. It obstructs normal labor and can put the lower uterine segment at risk of rupture.
Although Bandl's Ring can be seen (and sometimes felt) during labor and detected using ultrasonography, its symptoms are tricky to identify. At first glance, Bandl's Ring may look like a distended bladder. Anything that leads to obstructed labor, including dehydration, is going to be a risk factor for Bandl's Ring. Therefore, a cesarean section may be necessary to avoid uterine rupture. Tune in to learn more!
In this episode
- Blyss and Dr. Stu explain what is Bandl's Ring
- Risk factors of Bandl's Ring
- Does the baby's position cause Bandl's Ring?
- How Bandl's Ring is detected (possible symptoms)
Episode resources
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- Article: Midwives Blame California Rules for Hampering Birth Centers Amid Maternity Care Crisis
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and longtime advocate for birth choices. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife. |
| 0:13.0 | Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth. |
| 0:17.0 | Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So here we go. |
| 0:25.0 | Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good middle of night, everybody. Bliss started out the |
| 0:29.4 | morning with a gur. So what was the gur for? Let's talk about that because I got some gurs myself |
| 0:36.8 | this morning. It's just it's just logistical stuff gurrs myself this morning. I don't know who cares. |
| 0:38.2 | It's just it's just logistical stuff of like, you know, you guys probably can relate like so many emails and so many different apps and so much technology. |
| 0:48.3 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:49.6 | Just to like be able to find the link to meet you in this electronic world sometimes is like |
| 0:56.4 | takes me longer than I expected to. Let's just say that. Yeah, I pull my hair out with little |
| 1:01.8 | hair I have left often because I know that there's a message out there somewhere. I can't |
| 1:06.4 | remember. Did they send it on Slack? Did it come on signal? Was it on WhatsApp? Was it on direct messaging on Instagram? |
| 1:13.7 | Was it in my email? |
| 1:15.1 | Was it a text message? |
| 1:16.2 | I can't remember. |
| 1:17.0 | And this morning, I go on to get on Patreon and I'm locked out on my phone. |
| 1:22.1 | And I sent, you know, you saw them emails. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm trying to get in and it's sending warning alerts to, I guess |
| 1:28.6 | it was to our team member scout. And so she's freaking out because she thinks somebody's trying |
| 1:33.9 | to hack into our account and that happened. And then I came to my computer to get ready for |
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