Comments on: "You Have 16 Minutes To Get Your Placenta Out!"

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:31:45 +0000

How about let her breastfeed the baby and stop stressing her out. The breastfeeding will help the uterus to contract and push out the placenta and you not screaming time limits in her face would certainly help calm her down.

I mean come on, this isn’t a football game.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:30:01 +0000

I also would like to know 6x greater than what?

I’m not attacking you Matilda, but like Jane said, there is a HUGE different between 10 going to 60 and .01 going to .06.

By: Penny

Penny — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:24:32 +0000

The 30 minute time limit is because they are giving pitocin after every vaginal birth and within the 30 minute timeframe the artificial hormone causes the cervix to close. Once again it’s an issue of doctors not trusting our bodies.

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:09:07 +0000

Six times greater than what? Because if you’re talking about a 10% risk that goes up to 60%, that’s a lot different than if a 1% risk goes up to 6% or a .01% risk goes up to .06%.

By: Matilda

Matilda — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:48:38 +0000

According to the research and literature (SOGC guidelines), a woman has a 6x greater chance of having a post partum hemorrhage when the placenta takes more than 30 minutes. This is why at the 30 minute mark, the OB is called (if he or she was not already there) to do a manual removal of the placenta. It’s not because he or she is a jerk, it’s because he or she doesn’t want to see you hemorrhage. No, not all women whose placentas come slowly are going to bleed, but as someone who has seen women a) lose their uteruses and b) die as a result of terrible PPH’s, I can tell you that no matter how rare, it does happen, and we who work on l&d units don’t want to see it happen to YOU.

By: elysiarenee

elysiarenee — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:18:09 +0000

I would assume that this means the mother is having a ‘managed third stage’. It is my understanding that the hormone administered allows roughly a half hour window before the cervix closes. Perhaps the mother wasn’t aware that this had occured since many hopsitals routinely administer it. If she was having an un-managed third stage however then this sort of timeline is, indeed, needlessly short.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong!

By: GAMZu

GAMZu — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:45:49 +0000

My OB went into the uterus and ripped the placenta off the uterine wall. The blood overflowed the bin for the placenta and the splashing sound as it hit the floor was so loud, it was sickening.

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:11:31 +0000

This one actually really upsets me because I had something similar happen. Minutes after my first delivery (which was induced after they played the dead-baby card on me), the OB insisted that the placenta had to come out right away. And then she went and yanked on the umbilical cord to get it out. The cord broke and she had to go in and manually extract it. It was excruciatingly painful. I was yelling more for that than the labor and begging my husband to make them stop. When what I imagine was the attending came in and was told what happened, his eyes nearly bulged out of his head and he asked her what the hell she did that for.

I remember she was pregnant, I can only hope that after her labor, she learned a thing or two.

By: sheila

sheila — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:05:03 +0000

And you have 16 minutes to back up your threat with written evidence!

By: babymaker

babymaker — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:06:52 +0000

wow, how generous of you!