EBB 48 - Induction When Your Water Breaks at Term
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week, we cover the evidence on inducing labor versus waiting for labor to start on its own, when water has broken before the start of labor. For this podcast, we focus on when water breaks at 37 weeks of pregnancy or later. This is also known as pre-labor rupture of membranes, or PROM.
PROM is a common situation - researchers say that about one in ten pregnant people will have their water break before the onset of labor. Join me as we examine the evidence to see how pregnant people can make the best decisions for themselves when faced with the choice of inducing or waiting.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Evidence Space Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my |
| 0:08.5 | PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together |
| 0:13.9 | to get Evidence-based information |
| 0:16.1 | into the hands of families and professionals |
| 0:18.8 | across the world. |
| 0:19.9 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:23.1 | See Eviebirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:29.2 | Hi everyone and welcome to the Evidence Based |
| 0:31.6 | Birth Podcast. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm super excited to come to you another week. |
| 0:35.2 | This time we're going to do a little something different. I know we've been doing a |
| 0:38.6 | series of interviews with birth professionals, but for the next three weeks or so I'm going to be doing a solo |
| 0:46.1 | podcast talking about the evidence on different reasons for medical labor induction. |
| 0:53.0 | But before I get started, I wanted to make a few quick announcements. |
| 0:57.0 | First of all, the Evidence-Based Birth Conference in 2019 with the theme Bringing Evidence to Life in Lexington, Kentucky is very close to |
| 1:06.0 | selling out. We opened registration to our wait list last week and we had a |
| 1:10.5 | 150 ticket allotment and that's what we were planning on making the conference size 150 people. |
| 1:16.4 | We sold out of all 150 tickets within less than 24 hours. |
| 1:22.0 | And I knew there were so many people who wanted to come and who were going to be |
| 1:25.2 | upset and disappointed and we were going to be flooded with people who were like, I wanted to come and I couldn't get |
| 1:30.0 | a ticket. So I was in contact back and forth that whole beginning of the week with |
| 1:35.0 | our event planner for the conference and we decided that we were going to bust down |
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