Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“…You Probably Just Wet Yourself…”
Dr: “Let’s rupture your membranes for you.”
Mother: “I am pretty sure they already ruptured. I told the nurse that I felt a slow gush.”
Dr: “You’ve had an epidural. You probably just wet yourself.”
Doctor then procedes to insert and manipulate the amni hook, then stops abruptly.
Dr: “And that would be your baby’s head I am poking.”
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Susan Peterson had this to say,
Feb 15, 2011 @ 4:23 pm (Quote)
No, it sounds to me as if he admitted he was wrong.
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Stefani had this to say,
Feb 15, 2011 @ 4:37 pm (Quote)
I think this may be the least bad comment I’ve read here. It sounds like involuntary urination could occur after an epidural. When he found he was wrong, he readily admitted it. Some of the jerks posted here would have tried to hide their mistake.
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first time mommy had this to say,
Feb 15, 2011 @ 4:46 pm (Quote)
it does sound like he was admitting he was wrong, but when he saying was going to rupture the membranes and then brush off the mother’s response, it just sounded plain rude.
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Yes, he sort of admitted he was wrong, but he could have done it without invoking the imagery of poking op’s child with something called a “hook”. He could have said something more like, “Oh, it looks like you were right.” instead.
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Couldn’t he have checked her with his fingers before trying to stick the amnihook into the baby’s head??
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Kat Reply:
February 15th, 2011 at 6:32 pm (Quote)
My thoughts exactly!
Dr: “Let’s rupture your membranes for you.”
Mother: “I am pretty sure they already ruptured. I told the nurse that I felt a slow gush.”
Dr: “Oh? Well, let me just check and see what’s going on here… Yes! You’re right your membranes have ruptured.”
See? Nobody has to get poked in the head with an amnihook.
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around here epidural = catheter. there’s no WAY she could have wet herself….
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Tori Reply:
February 15th, 2011 at 7:02 pm (Quote)
Alas, I urinated myself in the brief space between when I got my epidural and when they placed the catheter with my first.
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Sheva Reply:
February 15th, 2011 at 8:23 pm (Quote)
Doesn’t the epidural take about 20 minutes to kick in? And it took longer than that for them to place a catheter?
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Tori Reply:
February 16th, 2011 at 3:44 am (Quote)
It’s been five years and the whole process was done in a stupid way, so I don’t remember. I remember them giving it too me and then them thinking my water broke, but it was just urine. I received the epidural as soon as I got in the room and I don’t think they even had me completely processed yet.
Ah, the good ol’ days when I thought doctors knew best. /sarcasm
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Susan Peterson Reply:
February 15th, 2011 at 7:55 pm (Quote)
You mean, when you have an epidural, you can’t control your urine? You are either incontinent, or you can’t pee and they have to cath you? And they sometimes leave in an indwelling catheter, so besides an IV and a monitor..you also have a catheter tube?
Pause while I digest this.
Birth can actually be very very simple.
Susan Peterson
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Dawn Reply:
February 15th, 2011 at 9:14 pm (Quote)
Wouldn’t it be possible that a contraction could help cause urine to leak? Honest question here SP
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Kat Reply:
February 16th, 2011 at 9:33 am (Quote)
Yes, Susan, as I found out when I had my first, it’s pretty much standard when you have the pitocin epidural combo platter that they also give you all the “side dishes” too:
We’ll just break your water now, because you’re 5cm.
Well, now that your water is broken, we’ll insert an internal contraction monitor.
Come to think of it, we can also screw an electrode into your baby’s scalp. Don’t worry, the scab will come off in a few weeks, and the scar will be under his hair so it won’t be noticeable…
You’ll have to be on this blood pressure monitor. It will only go off every ten minutes, clamp your arm so tight it hurts about as bad as the contractions did, and leave little red marks from hundreds of tiny burst blood vessels under your skin. No big deal.
Here’s the catheter we need to insert to empty your bladder now.
Here, put this oxygen mask on to help keep you from passing out while we scream at you to HOLD YOUR BREATH AND PUSH PUSH PUSSSHHHH!!!
I am so glad there are no photos of me during my son’s birth, I probably looked like something out of a horror movie. I know all the pictures of me from the first 2 weeks of his life, I look like I got run over by a truck, which is pretty much how I felt too.
Birth CAN be so simple, and it can be peaceful and beautiful too, but not when you are under the “care” of a physician who believes he is superior to every natural process, and his medical technology gives him God-like status over your body.
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Emmalene Reply:
February 16th, 2011 at 12:54 am (Quote)
I refused the catheter because I was able to control my bladder during the epidural.
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Elizabeth S Reply:
February 16th, 2011 at 7:05 am (Quote)
I didn’t get cathed until after delivery, but things moved kind of fast. It didn’t matter; I was so dehydrated they only got 100cc’s after giving me 1.5L of fluids. And my membranes had already ruptured.
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This was mine. The doctor had actually tried to tell me that I couldn’t have felt my membranes rupture because I had the epidural. My epidural was so minimal that I could still feel pain with my contractions, but it wasn’t excruciating. I could also move my legs and even stood at one point because I had had to pee and really didn’t want to bother anyone with a bedpan.
I did not have a catheter and I was able to urinate on my own into a bedpan with no issues. I had been doing so during the few hours after my epidural and that was how I knew my membranes ruptured and that I wasn’t peeing myself.
I didn’t consent to the doctor attempting to rupture my membranes, either, but she went ahead and did so while explaining to the student doctors in the room what she was doing (I also didn’t consent to student doctors and had them removed when I realized what was going on)
My birth experience sucked. I was young and had doctors telling me that this was more medical than natural because I was induced. They called Alice an ‘it’ even though I informed them I was having a girl (I actually said I was having an Alice). They were very dismissive of my desires and even made my husband (then fiance) move so they could get my mother to hold my leg basically above my head because I was protesting the severe angle and he was listening to me. I ended up with a stretched ligament and bruised ball joint in my hip thanks to the way I was manhandled.
I am so glad I went with a midwife with my second daughter.
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I hope she felt really stupid doing that in front of a room with students, and good for you for kicking them out!
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devil is in the details Reply:
February 17th, 2011 at 12:27 pm (Quote)
Serves her right for treating a young mother like a prop in her little teaching demnostration.
Sorry you were treat like that Emmalene!
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Come to think of it, we can also screw an electrode into your baby’s scalp. Don’t worry, the scab will come off in a few weeks, and the scar will be under his hair so it won’t be noticeable…
I love how completely UNTRUE that is in reality! The place where they screwed the monitor into my husband’s head is a pretty big bald spot.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/5633/pic093forum.jpg
He’ll never NOT have that bald spot. Oh, and did I mention that my MIL had refused the monitor and they screwed a hole into her baby’s head anyway?
My former OB mentioned using this kind of monitoring while my husband was in the room. Hubby points to his bald spot and just says, “No, not happening.”
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Kat Reply:
February 17th, 2011 at 12:33 pm (Quote)
Oh my WORD. That’s awful.
My son’s was much further back from his hairline, and you can’t see it, but he did have a scab for several weeks.
None of my other kids got subjected to the “deluxe” care I received with #1. Part of me wishes things had gone differently, but another part of me realizes that the experience pushed me into researching more, and it also taught me not to feel “superior” about one birth experience over another. Anyone is just one God-complex doctor away from being strapped to a bed with tubes and wires out of every orifice wondering “How did I get to this point?!” Even if they read every pregnancy book in the library, picked a practice with nurse-midwives, and took natural childbirth preparation classes!
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Maria Moles had this to say,
May 6, 2011 @ 4:39 am (Quote)
This comment is significantly horrible to me! My brother was killed (ON PURPOSE) with an amnio hook! He had anencephaly, and the substitute doctor acted like he was breaking Mom’s water, when in fact he used the hook to cause a cerebral hemorrhage. My already grieving Mother was handed a dead baby boy, and she wanted that son so bad! I grew up seeing Daniel’s pictures and funeral memorabilia. I am now a homebirther, and have made it quite plain that an amnio hook is to NEVER come near me! I just shudder to think of what could have happened when this doctor started poking this baby in the head.
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Jane Reply:
May 6th, 2011 at 5:13 am (Quote)
Dear God. I ran an anencephaly support group for 7 years and I never heard of a doctor deliberately murdering the baby. The baby’s going to die within hours anyhow after birth–why the heck would a doctor do that?
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Maria Moles Reply:
May 10th, 2011 at 11:01 am (Quote)
A chiropractor told Mom years later (she had apparently asked him about it) that causing the cerebral hemorrhage was “standard medical procedure” at the time. Daniel was born/ died March 27, 1981.
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Jane Reply:
May 6th, 2011 at 5:14 am (Quote)
Doctors believe anencephalic babies can’t feel pain because the pain centers in the brain haven’t formed. That might be why the doctor acted like a total barbarian, and I’m so sorry he did that during an already terrible situation.
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Maria Moles Reply:
May 10th, 2011 at 11:04 am (Quote)
Thank you for your sympathy. It means a lot.
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Asshole.
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