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Poll Results: Correlation between pitocin and jaundice

 
  • 18% (11)
    Had pitocin and baby ended up with jaundice
  • 33% (20)
    Had pitocin, but baby had no significant jaundice
  • 20% (12)
    No pitocin and baby still had jaundice
  • 25% (15)
    No pitocin and baby had no significant jaundice either
  • 3% (2)
    Other
60 Total Votes  
post #21 of 28
11/10/10 at 10:11pm

Injudicious use of pitocin can precipitate a PPH.  And a more dangerous condition known as an amniotic embolism is connected to overuse of pitocin.  It is not a drug that should be used as often as it is used.  

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post #22 of 28
11/11/10 at 9:57am

What I find most striking about the poll results is that roughly half of responders had pitocin.  I wouldn't have expected that on MDC.  

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post #23 of 28
11/11/10 at 11:00am
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Originally Posted by Lady Lilya View Post

What I find most striking about the poll results is that roughly half of responders had pitocin.  I wouldn't have expected that on MDC.  

Well, the thread title includes the word pitocin, so women who used pitocin are more likely to respond. And there have only been 22 replies. That's a very small percentage of the MDC community.
 

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post #24 of 28
11/11/10 at 1:21pm

Yeah, but if you saw a thread title with that name and hadn't had pitocin, wouldn't you still have been curious about a possible correlation?

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post #25 of 28
11/12/10 at 8:45am

I had one pitocin induced baby. No jaundice.

 

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post #26 of 28
11/16/10 at 1:44pm
Thread Starter 

OP here. I wonder if you polled those who had pit to find out if ALL of their babies had pitocin, you'd find that they hadn't. I've had 3 babies at home with mws and 1 hospital with pit due to a complication.

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post #27 of 28
11/17/10 at 8:44am
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Originally Posted by homemademom View Post

OP here. I wonder if you polled those who had pit to find out if ALL of their babies had pitocin, you'd find that they hadn't. I've had 3 babies at home with mws and 1 hospital with pit due to a complication.



I'm 3 with, 1 without.  The first two 100% by choice, the third (after the one without) after complications.

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post #28 of 28
11/17/10 at 8:52am

Just adding that my first was a pit induction (probably 10-12 hours of it?) - she had mild jaundice that went away and didn't require any interventions.

 

My second dd had no pitocin, and was jaundiced enough they wanted her levels checked within 1-2 days of being home (she was fine then & didn't need anything else though).

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