Karennnnn
01-27-2005, 03:47 PM
I'm seeing a homebirth midwife so I'd hope that this wouldn't come up, and even if I was seeing an ob I'd not consent to an induction again, but I was thinking of something interesting and wanted to know what you all thought.
Let's say a woman who is past her due date/doc going on vacation/large for dates/insert favorite scenario here is going to be induced.
She goes to the hospital and they begin an induction with whatever method (but let's just say they don't break her water and that doesn't happen at all).
After hours and hours of no change, maybe even an entire day, where there's no change or a stall, the doctors say "alright, let's get this baby out and do a c-section".
Can this woman, even if she has an epidural say "Nope, I'd rather go home and come back when my body is ready" or somewhere along those lines?
I guess what I'm saying is do you even think a hospital would let someone go home after all of that is done to them, even if they've had an epidural?
I doubt this would ever even come up, it's only something someone like me would conjure up but I think it would be interesting to see what a doc would say.
I've seen it once or twice on one of the shows on cable where a woman has gone home after an attempted induction, but never after she's had an epidural and really not after it's been an extended period of time. Both times I saw it I was absolutely shocked.
I'm just thinking that maybe this is something a woman can bring up to her care provider if she's open to the idea of an induction; that if she agrees to it, she can go home if it doesn't work and try again or wait for labor to begin on its own.
Now obviously most inductions are because of what an ob or midwife would consider to be a good reason to have that baby born that day, but we all know usually that's not the case.
Am I rambling?
Discuss!
Karen
Let's say a woman who is past her due date/doc going on vacation/large for dates/insert favorite scenario here is going to be induced.
She goes to the hospital and they begin an induction with whatever method (but let's just say they don't break her water and that doesn't happen at all).
After hours and hours of no change, maybe even an entire day, where there's no change or a stall, the doctors say "alright, let's get this baby out and do a c-section".
Can this woman, even if she has an epidural say "Nope, I'd rather go home and come back when my body is ready" or somewhere along those lines?
I guess what I'm saying is do you even think a hospital would let someone go home after all of that is done to them, even if they've had an epidural?
I doubt this would ever even come up, it's only something someone like me would conjure up but I think it would be interesting to see what a doc would say.
I've seen it once or twice on one of the shows on cable where a woman has gone home after an attempted induction, but never after she's had an epidural and really not after it's been an extended period of time. Both times I saw it I was absolutely shocked.
I'm just thinking that maybe this is something a woman can bring up to her care provider if she's open to the idea of an induction; that if she agrees to it, she can go home if it doesn't work and try again or wait for labor to begin on its own.
Now obviously most inductions are because of what an ob or midwife would consider to be a good reason to have that baby born that day, but we all know usually that's not the case.
Am I rambling?
Discuss!
Karen