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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Don’t Be Silly, I Felt Your Stomach & There’s Only One In There!”
“Don’t be silly. I felt your stomach, and there’s only one in there!” – Certified Nurse Midwife to mother who suspected twins, a few weeks before the mother did deliver twins.
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch had this to say,
Mar 6, 2011 @ 4:32 pm (Quote)
1) Somebody needs to take a refresher course in elementary palpation.
2) There’s a baby in my stomach? Since when? How did it get there? I don’t remember eating any babies. So is it tap dancing on the twins in my uterus? How is it tolerating my stomach acid? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!?
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Mistie Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 1:21 am (Quote)
Haven’t seen you reply in a while Sarah.. I’ve missed you. 
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 12:57 pm (Quote)
Got sidetracked by my other humongous object of autistic perseveration – politics/current events. I snark about that a lot, too.
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Silly Midwife should know better! You cant always tell via palpating!!
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I never took anatomy, but isn’t the stomach generally in a different place than the uterus? I know the uterus expands nearly up to the ribcage towards the end, but the stomach does not hold a gestating human baby…
Also, even someone with a medical degree (no matter the type) can be wrong. Why do you think what they do is called “Practice?”
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Chara Watson had this to say,
Mar 6, 2011 @ 7:49 pm (Quote)
Well, I’m an unexpected twin, and it happens more than you’d think. My Mother asked her doctor a few weeks before she gave birth because she was so big (Though not wide) and he told her that he only heard one heartbeat, so it was unlikely. After I was born, tagged and my mother was being sewn up one of the nurses finally listened when she said that she didn’t get as flat as she thought she would. They had to restart labor and my sister was born breech in one push.
This was all in 1979, mind you, when they knew how to do that sort of thing.
Apparently my sister had been pushed UP so far that she had dislocated my mother’s rib and was compressing a lung. That’s why they never heard a heartbeat.
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My aunts are twins and I can remember my Granny telling me that she didn’t remember them being born (these were the days when they knocked mums out and pulled the babys out). She remembers waking up, being awake for a couple of minutes and then someone saying “I can see another head” and they knocked her out again and when she woke up she had two baby girls.
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Charity had this to say,
Mar 7, 2011 @ 5:24 am (Quote)
Ok… This is where at least 1 ultrasound is a good thing…
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xanthina Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 6:24 am (Quote)
Even that isn’t a sure thing, my husband was missed on the first ultrasound, but was found hiding behind his twin sister on a later ultrasound.
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genniemom Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 6:27 am (Quote)
That’s not just something that used to happen a long time ago. A women in my August 2011 expecting club found out at twelve weeks that she was having twins, when she had had an ultrasound earlier that only showed one baby. It’s rare, but it does happen.
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This one’s mine… Words cannot properly describe the scorn dripping from her words as she made me feel like an idiot for my suspicions.
So much so that I didn’t even bring it up to my second midwife group, whom I was pretty open with. (I do think they would have figured it out given either enough time (I switched to them 4 weeks before delivery) or if I had asked.
I don’t do routine ultrasounds.
But don’t worry, I was thrilled to have twins!
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 12:59 pm (Quote)
Good thing you switched; can you imagine what the first midwife would have been like in birth?
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Marissa Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 6:05 pm (Quote)
“Don’t be silly, that’s not another head. I’m going to get a sandwich.”
*OP catches second baby herself*
“Don’t be silly, that mother only had one baby. This one must belong to someone else.”
*Midwife refuses to make another baby-hospital-lojack tag for OP. OP has to harass nursing staff for it*
“Don’t be silly. You only had one baby. You don’t need a second car seat in the same car.”
*Mother rolls eyes thinking of the episode in Mr. Sunshine where the light technician hangs a disco ball in Crystal’s office and says, “Think this’ll wow Crystal?” and Ben replies, “No, I’m almost positive this is how Crystal sees the world anyway.”*
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Jen had this to say,
Mar 8, 2011 @ 4:23 pm (Quote)
I heard a story a few years ago about a young couple who were in the delivery room when one of the nurses said ” somethings not right here” and sent the 17 year old mom off for a X-ray ( this was in the mid 60′s I think) b/c they didn’t have ultrasounds then. The nurse walked into the waiting room to give the husband the news. She said ” your wife isn’t about to deliver twins, you are having triplets though”. Then needed to give the 18 year old dad smelling salts after he passed out on the floor. They already had One child at home who was about 2 if I remember correctly. I couldn’t imagine that kind of a shock!
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Huh, and here I thought only us crazy homebirthers practiced crystal ball medicine!
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