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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“The Baby’s Head Down. What Else Would It Be?”
“The baby’s head down. What else would it be?” – OB to mother during her labor, when the mother inquired as to the baby’s position.
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Ashley Bean had this to say,
Aug 7, 2011 @ 3:10 pm (Quote)
The reason that it wouldn’t be in any other position is because I bet this OB would yank out a breech/traverse baby in a heartbeat without giving it the chance to flip. Not all babies come out head first and that’s normally NOT a problem. OBs MAKE it a problem. I will do chiropractic adjustments or any other non-invasive way to enoucrage my baby to be delivered head first (and hopefull face down), but there’s no way in hell I’m ever letting someone do an ECV on my baby. And you can also forget that c section you’ve scheduled doc.
Oh, I’m such an awful patient huh?
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head first or I would have a C/S. OB’s do not get it that it matters if baby is occiput posterior or transverse. if labor is slow to progress, we just up the pitocin, right!?
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Jane Reply:
August 7th, 2011 at 4:29 pm (Quote)
No, they have no clue about the baby being posterior, or face-first, or asynclytic, or any other position. Nuchal hand? Nuchal arm? They have no clue because it’s all about putting the woman on her back and cutting her open and yanking, and they “can always do a c-section” if the baby doesn’t push out fast enough for them.
(Bitter much, Jane?)
Too many doctors act as if there are only two positions, head-up and head-down. All breeches are the same, and all vertexes are the same. It’s sad. 
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S’what they told me too, until I was complete and they realized “Oooooops, the baby is breech!” After I had told them many times being in labor over 24 hours was NOT normal for me. (First two labors were 1.5 hours and 4 hours) Then after the c-section the OB says “No wonder it took you so long to dialate…”
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch had this to say,
Aug 7, 2011 @ 3:33 pm (Quote)
I take it you’ve never heard of this amazing technique called “palpating the uterus.” It’s brand new – the human race hasn’t had it for more than a millenium or two. Try it some time.
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Wow, my nurses told me that my baby’s head was transverse (Left Occiput Transverse, specifically). Sad that my L&D nurse was smarter than this OB.
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Judith Reply:
August 7th, 2011 at 9:52 pm (Quote)
one difference is that the nurse is at your bedside whereas the providers might stop my periodically and many places, it is the L&D nurses that do most of the exams. most doctors do not seem to learn that position makes a difference in how the labor progresses. one teaching hospital I worked at, I shared the Labor Progress handbook with a resident and she devoured in one night! she was astounded and upset that as a second yr resident, she not learned most of what she read in that book. after reading it, she would always tell me what had happened with patients in labor and how using that knowledge of changing the woman’s position, it helped shift the baby and was thrilled. that was very rewarding.
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Well, gee it’s POSSIBLE (not common, but possible) the baby could have turned. It would kind of be nice to know that before the water breaks and a FOOT pops out of the vagina. Just saying.
Based on my experience it doesn’t always END WELL when that happens.
But heaven forbid you treat an intelligent question like an intelligent adult. Geesh.
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Mama Wrench had this to say,
Aug 8, 2011 @ 5:27 am (Quote)
Let’s see… LOA, ROA, OP, OT… there are lots of positions he could be in, Doc, and they all change the approach to vaginal birth.
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Uh, breech, transverse, posterior, etc. Didn’t you learn that sort of thing in medical school?
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Louisa Reply:
August 7th, 2011 at 3:00 pm Louisa(Quote)
just what I was thinking.
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Julie Reply:
August 7th, 2011 at 10:42 pm Julie(Quote)
My thoughts exactly. Especially since I’ve had one who was definitely head-down, but still not in the “correct” position. There are plenty of answers to that question!
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