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- From: reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: music (and jaccuzi's) in labor rooms
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.154311.6621@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:43:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.174352.3923@colorado.edu> mwalker@taimyr.Colorado.EDU (Marilyn Walker) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan10.203134.7955@dsd.es.com> ksouth@dsd.es.com writes:
-
- >>Okay, my question is about jacuzzis. Can a woman whose waters are broken use
- >>a jacuzzi?
-
- >Yes - in a hospital where the jacuzzi is sterile, but don't take a bath
- >at home.
-
- Sterile? Unless they boil the water first (not likely), the tub in the
- hospital is absolutely NOT sterile. And your body is at least
- accustomed (resistant) to most of the bacteria in your house. (This is
- one of the reasons that infection in both mother and baby is less
- likely in a home birth than a hospital birth, assuming reasonable
- levels of sanitation in the home.) Outside of surgery, hospitals are
- amazingly non-sterile places (which is why you shouldn't hang around in
- one any longer than you really need to).
-
- The conventional wisdom is that a woman should not bathe at all if her
- membranes are ruptured; there's supposedly a risk of infection. There
- are some doctors, though, who don't agree with that. They say they
- just don't see those infections occur, and think the advice is based
- on theory rather than fact.
-
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