Diet and nutrition are an important part of living well with kidney disease. As your kidney disease progresses, your dietary needs will likely change as well. Click on the appropriate stage below to learn more about diet and kidney disease.
Tocolytics are drugs that minimize the strength and number of contractions. Although an ideal goal would be to stop preterm labor completely, the most that can be reasonably expected from current tocolytics is a delay of 48 hours. This delay allows time for treatment with steroids and antibiotics.
hospital labor can be induced at the hospital with oxytocin or a few different prostaglandin medications there are no proven ways to induce labor on your own increasing activity levels such as walking can be helpful intercourse is sometimes thought to soften the cervixait until 39 weeks after 39 weeks you can encourage contractions in a uterus that is ready with sex semen has natural hormones that gently stimulate labor or gentle nipple stimulation