Your input please! Potential induction... UPDATED - Page 2

[kimberlylibby]

HOLY COW.... I'm glad the babies are okay, but what the HECK kind of twin policy is that???? Sounds like an "insurance" policy to "insure" the ob gets lotsa money for doing lotsa unnecessary c/s that become necessary due to intervention..... kwim? Like it ended up being necessary, but only because of their stupid policies that avert the natural flow of labor.

The fact that they MAKE you get an epi makes me think they are flat out acknowledging their ignorance in delivering twins... they *KNOW* the suck at it... so they're prepared for it to all go wrong.

Wow, that fired me up. I've had a c/s and I'm all for it if you need it, but good grief, that seems like they set her up to fail!!!

[Amandzia]

yes, the epi just in case? That sounds odd. They had the anasthesiologist (sp?) right there just in case for me, but he wasn't needed. They can quickly put you under general if an emergency cesarian delivery is warented. They kept asking me to have an epi, but I wouldn't even sign the papers for it. Baby A came out head first, baby B was footling breech and I had a big epesiotomy (sp?).
On a Thursday my ob talked me into scheduling an induction for monday, but I told her I felt like I'll be going into labor over the weekend. She just laughed. Well, my water broke on Friday night, we did pit. because I had no contractions after several hours. It was shorter and more pleasant than my singleton's birth and no pain killers were needed.

[mamabutterfly]

Originally Posted by Amandzia

It was shorter and more pleasant than my singleton's birth and no pain killers were needed.

Thanks for sharing your story, Amandzia! It sounds like a great birth.

kimber & greaseball... The saddest thing to me is that the OB, talking afterwards about the birth, was really choked up about it. He believed he had taken important precautions and was pretty devastated that the vaginal birth didn't work. He didn't take opening up this woman's uterus lightly - he honestly seemed to feel it was a last resort and beyond his control. So that's what was hardest - believing (although I don't have a crystal ball, I know) that the series of actions taken increased the likelihood of what actually happened, and that this experienced professional didn't seem to be operating on sounds principles. That's just the common way of things on L&D units almost everywhere, I know, but it still makes me sad. (and mad)
Sigh.

mb

[applejuice]

...at any rate, unless there is something 'wrong' there is no reason for her to go in. she can just skip the appointment, they're not gonna hunt her down...

Oh yes they will hunt her down!... And it will not be the first time that doctors and the courts take custody of a fetus and charge the woman/mother with child prenatal child abuse and neglect.

She needs to watch her step.

This should never happen to any pregnant woman, but it does and it is happening more and more all of the time.

[applejuice]

I am sorry, I did not read the whole thread through.

I have many friends who are mothers of twins who had one twin vaginally and the other turns and they decide to do a caesrean section....ouch, healing from an episiotomy and a caesarean scar and then going home to care for newborn twins!

Doctors are a bunch of sadists.

I hope your friend is doing well. I am sorry this happened to her, but I am glad she is processing it well.