Wow. Bet he actually believes that, too. That is just sad.

Sometimes they do need help, but how the heck are you supposed to know that 30 seconds after delivery?!

“What? Do you mean that every woman who has ever given birth without someone pulling on the umbilical cord to get the placenta out… STILL HAS A PLACENTA INSIDE HER? Good God, man! I’ll alert the media! This is SERIOUS!”

Mine came out just fine without any help.

After reading some of these to my husband, he has declared that I will never give birth in a hospital. (Unless of course there is an emergency.)

ps With my three births, the placentas came out on their own, pretty easily actually.

The fact that you’ve never LET one come out on its own doesn’t mean they DON’T. We see that kind of circular self-reinforcing thought process all the time, don’t we? “I’ve never seen a placenta come out on its own. I’ve never seen an unmedicated birth.” And the biggie: “You need to be in the hospital because labors fail and babies go into distress all the time.”

Even though it took 3 hours for it to come out on its own, my placenta still came out on its own with no tugging needed. I bet this doc would think I’m certifiably insane!

“Yeah, and my menstrual blood can’t figure out how to come out on its own either. Thankfully my Woomba cleans me out every month. You and technology are just awesome Doc!!

One of my friends “allowed” a resident to tug on the placenta. The cord broke, she began to hemorrhage and ultimately required a D&C.

HA! Mine fell out onto the floor after my birth. It was still attached to the baby! And thank God it did, I would still be walking around with that thing inside me if I had to push it out, after all the pushing I had to do to get the baby out. So, yeah, Dr Dumbass, sometimes they do come out on their own. Sometimes they don’t, but that doesn’t mean you can’t wait more than 30 freaking seconds!

Actually, I think the correct ‘time limit’ they usually give is 30 MINUTES. Do you think this doc read it wrong?

When I read the headline from this one I just knew he was talking about the baby! LOL Glad to hear it wasn’t about a baby, but goodness come on. What did women do before OBs??
“Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” Exodus 1:19

Mine took around a half hour to come out. I had a waterbirth and the midwives just put it in a bowl floating in the tub. A little later, my husband cut the cord. I have other reasons to not give birth at a hospital, but this is just one more reinforcement of that decision! Also, my husband was completely on board with non-hospital birth once I read to him what an “average” experience there was like! I hope this mom that had this experience has a much better one the next time.

This sounds eerily familiar.

My hospital birth: Doctor pulling with her full body weight on the cord. It felt like she was trying to pull my uterus out. I lost 1000cc of blood. It took 10 minutes.

My homebirth: Nobody laid a finger on that cord. I birthed in on my own while still in the water and still attached to the baby. I lost 250cc of blood. It took a whopping 11 minutes.

Yeah, they do come out on their own doc.

I am reminded of my first pregnancy, which unfortunately, was a stillbirth.

After I had her, ( I was induced because my Dr. didn’t want to put me through the physical healing of a cesarean) the nurse started tugging on the cord almost immediately. After a minute or so, the placenta delivered. I had to go back after a couple of days for a D&C because there was lots of placenta left. That wouldn’t have happened if I had been left to let it come naturally. But I also understand that she was trying to make this as painless as possible for me because of the situation.

I had gone for an ultrasound the day before, and it showed that my daughter no longer had a heartbeat. She had died in-utero from a cord accident.