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Evidence Based Birth®

EBB 49 - What are the birth implications for a suspected big baby?

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Kids & Family, Medicine, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week, we talk about the evidence on induction for having a suspected big baby. I discuss the assumptions that lead to high rates of cesarean and induction for big babies, and whether the research shows these assumptions to be true.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone in today's podcast we're going to talk about the evidence on induction for having a suspected big baby.

0:07.0

Welcome to the Evidence Face Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my

0:15.8

PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together

0:21.0

to get evidence-based information

0:23.2

into the hands of families and professionals across the world.

0:27.0

As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.

0:30.2

See EvieBbirth.com, slash disclaimer for more details.

0:36.0

Hi everyone and welcome back to the Evidence-based Birth

0:39.0

podcast. I'm super excited to be hosting this podcast for you today

0:42.0

all about the evidence on

0:43.7

induction for suspected big babies. Before we get started I have a couple of

0:48.0

reminders. First of all most importantly we have a live webinar coming up for the public on

0:55.0

Thursday, November 8 and Friday, November 9. These are free and open to the public

1:01.0

and you can register by going to eBbirth.com slash webinar.

1:05.8

Now both of them are identical so you can pick either November 8th or November 9th to

1:10.5

attend and we're going to be talking about the evidence on elective

1:14.6

induction at 39 weeks and more specifically the big randomized trial called the

1:19.2

arrive trial that just came out all about whether or not women should be induced at 39 weeks or I should say be electively induced at 39 weeks.

1:30.0

Also at the time we're recording this we may have just a few tickets left to the

1:33.7

Evidence-based Birth Conference. That is going to take place in September of 2019.

1:39.1

We sold out of our original allotment of tickets in less than 24 hours and I've since

1:44.3

added two more sets of 50 tickets and we are almost sold out of that second set of

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