Ep 251: Low Amniotic Fluid? High Amniotic Fluid? What Do Amniotic Fluid Levels Mean for Your Baby?
Birth With Power
Dr. Nicole C. Rankins
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Amniotic fluid (AF) is the liquid that surrounds your baby after the first few weeks of pregnancy. An adequate amount of amniotic fluid is absolutely, positively critical for fetal health. If it’s too low, there can be a risk of severe fetal deformations, umbilical cord compression, and in extreme cases, fetal death. On the other side, if it’s too high, there’s a range of other fetal disorders that can occur affecting both you and your baby. Neither extreme is very common, but they both require monitoring and special care.
In this Episode, You’ll Learn About:
- What the purpose of amniotic fluid is
- What it is made up of
- Where it comes from
- How it is measured
- How low and high AF can affect development
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| 0:00.0 | What exactly is amniotic fluid? What does it mean for your baby if your amniotic fluid is too low? What does it mean for your baby if your amniotic fluid is too high? You are going to learn all about it in this episode. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the all about pregnancyregnancy and Birth Podcast. |
| 0:23.1 | If you're having a baby in the hospital, you are giving birth in a system that too often takes away power from women over what happens in their own bodies. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankins, a practicing board certified OBGYN, who's had the privilege of helping well |
| 0:38.0 | over a thousand babies into this world. |
| 0:40.3 | I've been a doctor for over 20 years, and I'm here to help you take back your power, |
| 0:45.2 | advocate for yourself, and have the beautiful pregnancy and birth that you deserve. |
| 0:49.5 | This podcast is for educational purposes only, and it's not a substitute for medical advice. |
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| 1:29.0 | Hello there. |
| 1:29.9 | Welcome to another episode of the podcast. |
| 1:32.7 | This is episode number 251, whether it's your first time listening or you haven't listened |
| 1:37.8 | to before. |
| 1:38.7 | I'm so glad you're spending some time with me today. |
| 1:42.1 | In this episode, you're going to learn all about amniotic fluid. What is |
| 1:47.1 | amniotic fluid? What's in amniotic fluid? Where does amniotic fluid come from? How do we measure |
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