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“Shoulder Dystocia” – with Dr. Caroline Friedman

Healthful Woman Podcast

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How Do You Push Your Shoulder Out?

There are usually two manoeuvres that we try first. And one is called the mac roberts manoeuvre. We lay mam all the way back, and we pull her knees towards her chest. A lot of women push in that position anyways, right? Sort of, especially if it's the first baby. But then we'll usually put them in that position, like you said, it just, it opens and helv us even just a few millimeters more. That's sometimes all you need to do. So that's typically the first manoeuvre. And then we'll usually do something, if that doesn't work, called super pubic pressure where we figure out which shoulder

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