Comments on: “…There’s A Hole In The Middle Of The Skull…”

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:54:02 +0000

But don’t babies have a hole in the middle of their skull?

*Sigh*

By: Lilly

Lilly — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:57:18 +0000

That makes me wonder how far in the ‘hole’ the OB’s finger went, especially if baby was a girl *gag*

By: Dusti

Dusti — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:51:53 +0000

I have to admit I wldnt find it funny if I were the mother. I honestly would freak out on her/him! But looking back it wld b a semi-funny story 2 tell your child later on down the road and get a chuckle out of.

By: Sheva

Sheva — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:47:40 +0000

From what I hear, OBs are not generally trained in breech births. They just learn that breech means a section.

And, what is Kat’s website about? And what ‘s the site name?

By: Michelle Potter

Michelle Potter — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:02:23 +0000

Congratulations! Like I said, I don’t know what ICAN’s position is on true macrosomic babies. I’m pretty sure that statement was in regards to babies who are both macrosomic AND breech.

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:23:04 +0000

Yeah, it’s just our lack of a sense of humor that doesn’t find the phrase “There’s a hole in the middle of the skull” hilarious.

It’s great the doctor discovered the baby was breech. The comment was not the best way to phrase it to an exhausted emotional woman hoping to birth a baby in the next few days.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:45:46 +0000

My son was considered a true macrosomic baby, 11lbs at 40weeks(but not breech), he was delivered without problem. Good thing my OB didn’t suspect, she would probably have tried to scare me out of my homebirth(I pushed for 10 min or less to get him out from start to birthing his shoulder which did take work, his chest w/out arms was 16.5″
Anyway, all that to say, you don’t NEED a c/s necessarily b/c you have a big baby either He was my biggest by 2lbs..

By: NIcholas Fogelson

NIcholas Fogelson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:46:07 +0000

Ok maybe its a little in bad taste, but have a little sense of humor. The mother is adequately dilated that when the physician did a cervical exam he/she felt the babies ass. There’s nothing incompetent about that.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:13:15 +0000

While I think it’s appalling that many of today’s OB/GYNs have little to no training in vaginal breech births, I also want to say…
NICE BEDSIDE MANNER, JERK!
I’m pretty sure no prospective parent wants to hear mention of a hole in their baby’s skull, whether the doctor thinks he’s being funny or not.

By: Michelle Potter

Michelle Potter — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:40:09 +0000

I am so, so sorry for your loss. I agree that preparation is absolutely vital. Both of our experiences show that a baby known to be head down can turn at the last minute, and that can be disastrous. I was fortunate that we had planned a homebirth, and had prepared for the “just in cases” by learning what to do, and also that the paramedic had experience with babies born breech (though he’d never delivered a footling breech before).

I hope I did not give the impression that having a footling breech baby vaginally was not dangerous. I do believe that I had the best possible situation for the birth I had — if I’d left for the hospital when my water broke, I feel certain my daughter would have been born, and died, in the car stuck in morning rush hour. I do not think it was even possible for us to get to a hospital in time. I’m not sure it was even possible to get to the car. But I would not PLAN to have a footling breech baby at home. Frank breech, maybe, but not footling breech.

It just bugs me that my husband could figure out the method for delivering a breech baby from a BOOK — and make it WORK — and that the paramedic was trained in and had experience in delivering breech babies, but an OB in a hospital can’t figure it out.