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A forceps delivery may be quite traumatic for the mother and the child, both physically and (for the mother) psychologically. However forceps deliveries are usually only performed when the mother and/or baby are too exhausted to deliver naturally. For the mother, she will need some form of pain relief which may be just local anesthetic if she doen't already have an epidural, and she may need an episiotomy, a cut to the back of the vulva to enlarge the opening, this will probably be sore for a few days. The baby also may have a bit of bruising and be irritable for a few days. The baby may have an slightly odd shaped head also, but this is not because of the forceps, it is the shape which necesssitated the forceps delivery. If the baby continues irritable for longer, sometimes cranial osteopathy and/or baby massage may help. After a week or two however all should be returning to normal.

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