Sorry to hear that..... one of the many reasons I avoid doctors like the plague, especially when I'm pregnant
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Glad to hear you have a great midwife!
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I don't know whether to be more MAD at the state of the world or SAD at it right now.
Just got off the phone with MIL who informed me that SIL is having an induction this friday. I knew she was due at the end of the month and so I asked, "Why?" in an obviously displeased tone. She was like, oh the doctors want to, last time she was 2 wks over and they they had to induce and this time she's big for her dates
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They wanted to induce this tuesday but SIL changed it to Friday because "it's more convenient for everyone involved."
Geez, WTH, are they so pitocin trigger-happy that they can't even wait till her EDD?
*sigh*.... I know this is totally routine in the medical world and you've probably heard it about it being done from others, but I personally just get so so pissed off hearing about it. Esp. when it's so close to home. After I got off the phone I was like, "Stupid goddamn doctors!!!" to dh (who is more of the pro-doctor type and prob thought I was about to go off on one of my anti-doc tirades). Well, my SIL is a doc herself, and if she wants to put herself thru that, it's her decision.... poor poor baby though. Let the poor babe cook a little more, why don't they? I think it's just so medically and ethically irresponsible the way they do things these days....
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My consolation is the fact that I have an awesome midwife who just extended my edd to a week later b/c she said given my menstrual history (loooong cycles), it's likely my babe will "cook" a li'l while longer and she wants me to avoid an induction and hospital birth. Gotta love her for that
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Just got off the phone with MIL who informed me that SIL is having an induction this friday. I knew she was due at the end of the month and so I asked, "Why?" in an obviously displeased tone. She was like, oh the doctors want to, last time she was 2 wks over and they they had to induce and this time she's big for her dates
They wanted to induce this tuesday but SIL changed it to Friday because "it's more convenient for everyone involved."
Geez, WTH, are they so pitocin trigger-happy that they can't even wait till her EDD?
*sigh*.... I know this is totally routine in the medical world and you've probably heard it about it being done from others, but I personally just get so so pissed off hearing about it. Esp. when it's so close to home. After I got off the phone I was like, "Stupid goddamn doctors!!!" to dh (who is more of the pro-doctor type and prob thought I was about to go off on one of my anti-doc tirades). Well, my SIL is a doc herself, and if she wants to put herself thru that, it's her decision.... poor poor baby though. Let the poor babe cook a little more, why don't they? I think it's just so medically and ethically irresponsible the way they do things these days....
My consolation is the fact that I have an awesome midwife who just extended my edd to a week later b/c she said given my menstrual history (loooong cycles), it's likely my babe will "cook" a li'l while longer and she wants me to avoid an induction and hospital birth. Gotta love her for that
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It is so frustrating to hear stories like that. And for me, even more difficult to bite my tongue.
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It is awesome to have a midwife that understands your concerns and trusts you that you actually know your body. Good for you!
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It is awesome to have a midwife that understands your concerns and trusts you that you actually know your body. Good for you!
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Ugh... I had a friend who was induced a couple months ago because she was measuring 42 weeks at 37 weeks, so they thought the baby would just be huge. They induced, ended up with a C-section (of course), and the baby was... 6 lbs 8 oz!
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Thankfully, in her case, it really was probably a life saver. It turned out that she had undiagnosed pre-eclampsia (the doctors didn't notice that her bp was really high for her, even though it wasn't 140/90). A week after the baby was born, the mom ended up in the hospital again - this time with heart problems. That's when they did a urine test that found protein, and they discovered the pre-e. They'd totally ignored her high-for-her bp and the fact that she was swelling LIKE MAD and was still horribly swollen even after the birth, plus her bp was still very high even after the birth. *sigh* Thankfully, mom and baby are fine now, although the heart meds and bp meds made it very difficult to breastfeed - she tried and tried, but I'm pretty sure she's probably given up by now. Baby had a good latch in the beginning, but then he was without mama for a few days, then she was on an ace inhibitor that you CANNOT breastfeed with, and then she got off that and started trying to bf again, but she was put on a bp med that lowers your milk supply, and she was already struggling with that.
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And this is a family that really has trouble affording formula, so both mom and dad wanted baby to have breastmilk both for health reasons and for financial reasons.
Anyway, her induction was not done for the right medical reasons, but it turned out to be what her body needed. Unfortunately, her doctors missed the pre-e that was practically staring them in the face!!!!
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: Had they caught it earlier, I'll bet she would have been able to bf. The baby started out as a natural, and they did really well that first week.
GRRRRRRRRR.
Thankfully, in her case, it really was probably a life saver. It turned out that she had undiagnosed pre-eclampsia (the doctors didn't notice that her bp was really high for her, even though it wasn't 140/90). A week after the baby was born, the mom ended up in the hospital again - this time with heart problems. That's when they did a urine test that found protein, and they discovered the pre-e. They'd totally ignored her high-for-her bp and the fact that she was swelling LIKE MAD and was still horribly swollen even after the birth, plus her bp was still very high even after the birth. *sigh* Thankfully, mom and baby are fine now, although the heart meds and bp meds made it very difficult to breastfeed - she tried and tried, but I'm pretty sure she's probably given up by now. Baby had a good latch in the beginning, but then he was without mama for a few days, then she was on an ace inhibitor that you CANNOT breastfeed with, and then she got off that and started trying to bf again, but she was put on a bp med that lowers your milk supply, and she was already struggling with that.
Anyway, her induction was not done for the right medical reasons, but it turned out to be what her body needed. Unfortunately, her doctors missed the pre-e that was practically staring them in the face!!!!
GRRRRRRRRR.
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And then there are women with normally elevated bp who have to fight tooth and nail to not get induced.
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If doctors are going to be inconsistent, couldn't they at least try to be inconsistent in a way that *helps* people.
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You'd think they'd look at your baseline bp from early in pregnancy and judge your later readings based on that... At least, that's what I'd do if I were a midwife/doctor.
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And I think most midwives do that.
Originally Posted by sapphire_chan If doctors are going to be inconsistent, couldn't they at least try to be inconsistent in a way that *helps* people. |
You'd think they'd look at your baseline bp from early in pregnancy and judge your later readings based on that... At least, that's what I'd do if I were a midwife/doctor.
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