• CASES IN WHICH I LET THE WOMAN COME OUT OF THE WATER
  • Lack of physical and/or psychological general well-being (nausea, dizziness, too much pain ... )
  • Sudden abnormal loss of blood
  • Sudden abnormal degradation of the foetal heartbeat
  • An abnormally slow progression of the dilatation slow progression of the head through the pelvis slow expulsion period of the head (more than 1 hour - 1 hour 30')
  • When the contractions start to become less frequent and less strong, even after trying to have a revival of the labour by administering a few units of : oxytocine IM
  • If shoulder distocia occurs; after having tried a few seconds longer than usual, the woman is helped out of the water.

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