Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Gravity Doesn’t Help With Birth…”
“Gravity doesn’t help with birth because if it did, babies would be falling out everywhere.” -OB to mother.
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I wonder why babies aren’t falling out around him?
Oh yeah, because he doesn’t let the mothers he sees use gravity. Why use a simple thing like gravity when we have pitocin to shoot babies out. And if that doesn’t work we’ve always got the tried and true scalpel. That works every time.
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Guggie Daly had this to say,
Feb 9, 2010 @ 6:29 pm (Quote)
Crackerjack boxes must have had thousands of medical degrees in them! lol
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The Deranged Housewife had this to say,
Feb 9, 2010 @ 8:34 pm (Quote)
Blatant lie #4,293 of the week….
You wonder – do they just blurt these things out and then think, “Duh, that’s not even true – I don’t know why I even said that. Let’s hope she doesn’t catch on.” ?!? WTH?
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*facepalm* I understand how OBs don’t quite get that babies can be born with spontaneous pushing and assistance from gravity, because they have insulated themselves to the point that they literally have no exposure to it in some cases.
But babies falling out? Has this clown taken anatomy and physiology? For most of a pregnancy, there’s this thing called a cervix in the way…and vaginas, well those do have to stretch a bit to allow babies to “fall out”
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Jane Reply:
February 10th, 2010 at 6:07 am (Quote)
So nine months of bed-rest for every pregnant woman, because if she gets up and walks around, the baby will fall out?
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Melissa Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 8:57 am (Quote)
Um, no, that’s not what I was saying at all. I was just pointing out the silliness of the assertion that gravity doesn’t help with birth because it doesn’t cause babies to just “fall out.”
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“babies would be falling out everywhere.” Um, isn’t that the goal at the end of approx. nine months?!!!!
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Melissa Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 4:21 pm (Quote)
No. They have to be born in a bed into somebody’s sterile gloved hands. Otherwise they might die.
This reminds me of the argument that women can’t push on the toilet (or get up to the bathroom in labor in some extreme cases) because of the horrible tragedy that would be the baby being born on the toilet…
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The Deranged Housewife Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 6:34 pm (Quote)
Yeah, something tells me you’d remember the catch the baby before it falls in. LOL
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Knitted in the Womb had this to say,
Feb 10, 2010 @ 8:52 am (Quote)
Sheesh…I guess gravity doesn’t exist at ALL because I see stuff sitting on shelves all over the place and it doesn’t fall off!
I’ve quit counting how many nurses have told my clients that laying on their back is the best position to utilize gravity because it “helps” the baby to get under the pubic bone.
I had one client who was kneeling to push, and a nurse said “don’t you want to get into a position that utilizes gravity better?” The mom shot her a look that could slice steel (which the nurse obviously missed) and said “What about this position DOESN’T utilize gravity?” Fortunately she was too wrapped up in the next contraction to hear the nurse extoll lithiotomy. Her baby–1st baby–was born with about 10 minutes of pushing–her Dr. missed the birth.
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So there, Nurse….
I did not submit this but it is VERY similar to what my doctor said, that being up and walking around does not help with labor because “the whole gravity thing is a myth”. Well, it’s not like I think the forces of the earth are going to suck my baby out of me and that’s the reason I don’t want to be confined to a bed. But if I am up and walking around and in positions that make me comfortable it will help me relax and dilate/baby to lower and get into position. I didn’t even know how to respond when he said that.
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Michelle Potter had this to say,
Feb 10, 2010 @ 10:28 pm (Quote)
If you follow this line of thinking out to the logical conclusion, then incompetent cervices are not a problem. See, clearly, your cervix isn’t holding the baby in – he can’t possibly come out unless you lay on your back with your knees by your ears and push on command!
What a relief that must be to moms everywhere!
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Jespren Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 5:05 pm (Quote)
this was exactly what I was thinking! If we aren’t afraid of baby ‘falling out’ why all the worry about the fitness of the cervix? I bet this doctor would assign bed rest to avoid baby falling out if a mother had an incomplete cervix. Maybe we should remember to tell any doctor who pulls this during labor ‘well, I have an incomplete cervix right now, so gravity will help!’ maybe then they’d get the picture!
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LOL. Ohhh the imagery. I only had 1 OB for 6 births, thank GOD he was a decent and gentle assistant at my 1st birth. But I DID have a nurses assistant tell me if I breastfed my toddler while I was currently pregnant, I could get breast cancer. I asked her if she told other people that, she said, well, yes. I told her she should quit practicing medicine without a clue.
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According to that theory, being hung by ankles would really be the uber-lithotomy position. It means that the doctor wouldn’t even have to lean down to see what’s going on . . .
uh, scratch that, pretend I never said it, don’t let them get hold of that idea, oh God!
*sigh*
Gravity doesn’t help with birth . . . geez.
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