Word: walks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then we sat immobile in traffic for the next four hours watching those we had beat to the bus walk past us as they made their way home. As they passed, one with a cup of coffee turned and waved back. Maybe I should have gone to East Africa...
...truth was somewhere in between," says Dr. Steven Bloom, an obstetrician at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the lead author of the study. Bloom and his colleagues examined 1,067 moms-to-be with routine pregnancies and randomly divided them into a group who walked during the first stage of labor and another group who stayed in bed. To their surprise, the researchers found that walking didn't shorten the labor or reduce the need for pain killers, nor did it lower the rate of C-sections. But a full 99% of the women...
Twenty years ago, many doctors encouraged their patients to walk during labor. Then they started using electronic monitors on a regular basis. But the monitors, which measure the baby's condition during delivery, tethered the mother to a machine, making it impossible for her to walk. Physicians and nurses became more dependent on the high-tech instruments--though studies have shown that using a specialized stethoscope during routine deliveries is just as good at measuring a baby's vital signs as an electronic monitor...
...want to walk during the early stages of labor, don't let anyone talk you out of it. You may find nurse midwives more sympathetic to your need to ambulate than obstetricians. (A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control found that, all other things being equal, the risk of infant death was 19% lower for full-term deliveries attended by certified nurse midwives than for those attended by physicians--perhaps because midwives are slower to turn to higher-risk procedures like C-sections and forceps deliveries.) And if you want to keep tabs on what else...
...quickly decided to consider the ice cream question at home and began to walk briskly down the avenue. Suddenly, Anjali stumbled. She gripped her foot and cried out in pain. A few minutes later we were all sitting in the E.R., waiting for a doctor in the understaffed facility to attend to our friend...