How To Manage Shoulder Dystocia During Labor?

This problem occurs at the time of delivery.

Shoulder dystocia occurs when your baby is delivered through the vagina, but the shoulders get stuck inside your body.

This is risky for both you and your baby. Dystocia is a condition of slow or difficult labor or delivery [Emotional Dystocia signs].
Reasons for Shoulder dystocia

* Caused by an unusually large baby.
* If you are overweight or suffering from diabetes, you are at greater risk of delivering a baby with larger weights.
* If your pelvic opening is too short for your baby to come out easily, this condition results.
* If your pregnancy has multiple babies. [Multiple Pregnancy]
* If you deliver the baby after the due date.
* If you have had shoulder dystocia or delivered a large baby in your past delivery.

Prevention of shoulder dystocia in the delivery room

In most cases, the baby is delivered safely. Here are a few things that your practitioner will do:

* Press your thighs against your belly;
* Roll you onto all fours;
* Apply pressure to your belly;
* Try to turn your baby’s shoulders when the baby is still inside you;