Question for OB/MW - Page 2

[the elyse]

yikes. sounds like you might need a different ob (or mw!) next time around...

[AngelaB]

I just wanted to say that this thread is a treasure trove of information! Thank you for the post!
Angela

[Maggirayne]

Hmm, very interesting. I love being able to tap into other people's experience and knowledge and sympathy here.

I don't think I'll get a HB with #2, but maybe eventually. There are other issues we're working on (no-vaxing) for one.

I liked my nurses, but do recall the one that was with me primarily commented she was glad another nurse heard me when she walked by and came in and helped. I think I was grunting. (I didn't make any noise that I recall except when I was trying not to push, ha!)

My DD was lavender, not dark purple. Odd the snapshots I do recall. She looked fine, pink, when they let me hold her a few minutes after she was born. It wasn't really long, although those minutes watching them cleaning her on the warming cart and calling out, "I want my baby," seemed like forever, and it is not something I will ever forget.

And to answer someone's question, no, as far as I know she wasn't resuscitated, and I was watching.

I am going to change from FP to OB before the next baby. Too many things that were unsatisfying. I have an MDC friend in my town who says her OB and doula are great.

AngelaB, you are more than welcome. This has been educational and supportive for me.

I read on the lotus cord clamping page about a hands-off contract. Has any heard of/used that in the US? Can you insist they not do fetal monitoring at all?

I wanted and mostly got intermittent monitoring. The nurse wanted me to go to the machine while I was in the bathtub(yeah not even a decent birthing pool). I insisted she do it there. I'd been to enough prenatal exams to know what a Doppler monitor is, and my dr. certainly had a portable one!

[Maggirayne]

I am so ticked. I have a friend who is going to be induced if she doesn't go into labour by Monday, and I am reading articles about Induction leading to Cesarean, something I've wondered about, and found this below, and it makes me mad because my dr. ruptured my membranes at 8:30 in the morning and did not discuss the risks with me beforehand or at the time she was kneeling between my legs asking if she could. I knew there were some risks, my immediate thought was "If I don't have the baby in 24 hours, they'll push me to have a c/s." In the middle of labour I didn't think to ask why she wanted to rupture my membranes. In retrospect, it was Friday morning. Hmmm. . .

So I read this excerpt below and considering how DD's heartrate dropped at the end it just makes me mad.

"Refuse rupture of membranes before labor is well-established and progressing. Having intact membranes means you can back out if the induction doesn’t work. Refusing early rupture also reduces the risk of fetal distress from cord compression; the risk of infection, which avoids IV antibiotics and septic workups; and the rare but catastrophic risk of umbilical cord prolapse."
http://hencigoer.com/articles/elective_induction/

Italics mine above. I had been having contractions all night, varying 5 to 10 minutes apart, and they had started getting stronger and more regular at 7 am. But this was the first time my dr came and checked on me. I wonder if she does that routinely or only on Fridays.

[SublimeBirthGirl]

Nurses often make mom wait to push because if they catch a baby, they get yelled at by the doctor, who may not get full reimbursement from insurance if she's not the one who actually catches the baby. So it's not necessarily an issue with the nurses.

I honestly can't imagine going back to the same place where I had a birth experience like this. Remember the saying, the definition of insanity is making the same choices and expecting different results.