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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“…It Looks Like Your Vagina Broke Another Monitor.”
“Oh, it looks like your vagina broke another monitor.” – OB to mother when the internal monitors in place stopped working
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Yeah, after that they actually screwed the monitor on his head. My son is three and still has a scar on his head where it was…
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blue Reply:
November 24th, 2010 at 3:27 pm (Quote)
I’m sorry about that. My birth class instructor was telling us about a nurse that accidentally screwed the monitor into the baby’s EYE and blinded it…
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Arzt4Empfaenger Reply:
November 26th, 2010 at 1:40 pm (Quote)
I didn’t know that was even possible! Hideous! D:
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decemberbaby had this to say,
Nov 24, 2010 @ 12:42 pm (Quote)
The vagina is powerful. Fear my vagina!
Mua ha ha ha ha!
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch Reply:
November 24th, 2010 at 12:51 pm (Quote)
I think i’d rather have a vagina dentata. All the better to bite the hands off of pushy interventionist medical professionals when they try to twaddle my cervix or cut an episiotomy without my permission.
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch had this to say,
Nov 24, 2010 @ 12:53 pm (Quote)
Are you sure it’s not divine intervention? 
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Does it disturb anyone else that the same people who put dishwashers, washers, and dryers also make the equipment for the hospitals, such as the ultrasound machine and fetal monitors? I’m talking about GE incase anyone hasn’t paid attention to who make the machine.
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch Reply:
November 25th, 2010 at 1:44 pm (Quote)
GE makes that stuff?!?!? Oh good grief. They make some of the worst kitchen appliances on the market. And now I am informed that they make medical appliances, too?
From all I’ve heard, the only good things made by GE are lightbulbs and jet engines.
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judith Reply:
November 25th, 2010 at 2:19 pm (Quote)
GE is also part of the military industrial complex, they are everywhere.
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Sarah Reply:
November 25th, 2010 at 7:36 pm (Quote)
Sort of an aside – When I used to work at a restaurant/country club, we had a VIP guest who was formerly a big name at GE. We chatted a little, and when he asked me about school/career plans and I said I was working toward being a doula, he treated me as if I had said I was studying to be the town fool. There’s “no future in it,” apparently. >_<
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Am I the only one sickened by the thought of someone screwing *anything* into a child’s head?
When my children avoided the monitor around my stomach (you could see them move away from the tracer) the consultant wanted to put a clip on my daughters head and I told him where to go.
If there is any *true* indication of a problem then do something about it BUT you are now screwing ANYTHING into my baby’s head!
I feel quite sick at the thought of it!
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Xanthina Reply:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:33 pm (Quote)
It was one of the most disturbing things to me, the thought of putting a screw into my child’s scalp. No. just No.
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch Reply:
November 25th, 2010 at 1:51 pm (Quote)
I believe I replied “Poor kid” in the comment field of one of the above posts. I must have understated things a bit. Yes, the thought makes me a little nauseous, too. When I was getting ready to give birth the first time, a well-meaning supervisor warned me that my desire for a natural birth might have to be scrapped, that, for instance, I would have no choice about letting my waters break on their own if a doctor decided my baby needed internal foetal monitoring, and my first thought was, No. No way. Not happening. Ever.
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I agree. That thought has always made me queasy. Apparently I had to have one when I was born (with no adverse effects), but I’m really, REALLY glad that there has never been ANY reason to place one on either of my children. And that with DD, they were more than happy to just monitor intermittently and then let me do my thing.
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Actually I was really shocked when I found out AFTER I gave birth that it was actually screwed into his head. All they said was that they were “attaching a different kind of monitor” and I’m thinking suction cup or something like that. If I would have known it was really screwed in I would have gone against it.
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Susan Reply:
November 26th, 2010 at 3:53 am (Quote)
I don’t think I realised ut was screwed into the head either, or else I probably would’ve fought it with my son. Or I would have had I not been totally out of it from the pethidine/phenergan they gave me at transition.
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Lysana Reply:
November 29th, 2010 at 12:06 pm (Quote)
Same here. They tried to put one on my first daughter (first baby) but she was so close to coming out that they nurse couldn’t get it on her. She came out with scrapes on her head. I didn’t put the two together until I was researching labor for my THIRD baby (born this past July). (BTW, that nurse was awesome – she didn’t try all THAT hard to get the monitor on, and helped my baby get past the cervical “lip” I had after my OB said, “We’ll get that baby out tonight, even if it takes a c/s.” Nurse (after the OB left): “You’re NOT going to need a c/s!”)
Anyway. My point was, ditto – I had no idea they actually SCREWED something into your baby’s head until I researched it more than 3 years later.
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rachel had this to say,
Nov 27, 2010 @ 5:56 am (Quote)
My Dr told me he was just going to stick this on my sons head. Made me think it was suction too. I didn’t find out till a year later that it was screwed into his head and I feel so violated by it. I never would have allowed him to do it because I never wanted my sons first experience outside the womb to be pain.
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No, that’s just the monitors way of saying ‘I’m unnecessary, so stop screwing me in there!’.
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