Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Your Job Is To Watch The Monitor…”
“Your job is to watch the monitor as that will be the first sign of a problem.” – OB
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Unless this doctor was telling this to a nurse at the central monitoring station, there is NO appropriate audience for this comment!
Mom? No. Mom is too busy HAVING this baby, and when she has a whole different set of data streaming through her…how her body feels, how labor feels, any sudden changes, even mother’s intuition about her babe.
Nurse? No. Nurse should be watching the mom, her patient.
Dad? Doula? Friend? Monitrice? Housekeeping?
NO. No, no, no, no, no.
And neither should the doc be depending on the monitor to that extent.
OP–what an alternate reality experience that must have been….wonder what crazy doc was even THINKING?
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Claire Reply:
September 28th, 2011 at 11:13 am (Quote)
This is part of my punishment for having a VBA2C with a full inverse T and then daring to go into labour whilst they were all tied up in theatre and being so fast that they couldn’t get me in afterwards.
She’d decided that the baby was in distress so was about to try forceps (I’d been in labour about 15 minutes at this stage, she’d just walked in and the MW was blocking the view) and told the midwife to watch the monitor whilst she did. The thing is supposedly we’ve already had the first sign of a problem, my baby was in distress…
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This is to the midwife who was stood in front of the monitor, blocking the doctor’s view AFTER she’d diagnosed the baby as being in distress… (either she is in distress or she isn’t)
This is same dr who asked if daddy wanted to cut the cord, so obviously their was a time rift in that delivery room!
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Claire Reply:
September 28th, 2011 at 10:52 am Claire(Quote)
Oh and my 34 weeker was born with an APGAR of 9 and screaming on exit!
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Jane Reply:
September 28th, 2011 at 11:35 am Jane(Quote)
Just wondering, how many hours straight had that doctor been awake and working? Because between these two quotes it sounds like the doctor was just not listening or paying attention to anyone, doing her own thing and fairly resentful — to the point where if you told me the doctor was on the tail-end of a 24-hour shift, I’d totally believe you.
I had my hand stitched up once by a resident in the ER who was so tired he didn’t understand when a nurse was telling him that his patient in the next room was coding. He just kept stitching my hand, and we were like, “You can go take care of the other guy…” It may not be a time rift if the doctor was so exhausted she couldn’t think.
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Claire Reply:
September 28th, 2011 at 12:02 pm Claire(Quote)
I think this would have been pretty early into the shift, they’d all already been in theatre but that must have been the start of their shift. Also Europe is pretty strict on working hours, how long you’re allowed to work and how long between shifts.
They were determined to convert me to a section, I should be an automatic candidate but I sat down with my Doula, consultant and a Supervisor of Midwives to discuss the possibility of a VBAC and my own consultant was brilliant about it. The consultant working that shift came in to see me whilst I was still early on, been 6 hrs from 2cm and said I had an hour or he would have me in theatre. An hour later they were all tied up and it took about 4hrs to get to me.
The team came in, consultant realised I was boring (OH’s words) and left his registrar to deal with me. Everything was about getting baby out quickly and scare tactics to back herself up, despite me only being 6cm when she first saw me, fully dilated 15 minutes later and delivering 12 minutes later and as I said baby was APGAR 9 straight away.
We all felt that I was being punished – she broke my waters with her hands at 6cm, they put me in stirrups (despite everyone shouting no as I have PGP) and had the forceps ready despite how fast she came out and all the doctor got to do was catch, she refused to leave the cord (that distressed baby was an APGAR of 9) I didn’t want the injection, so I got the drip instead, she wouldn’t allow skin to skin… All submissions!
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Jane Reply:
September 28th, 2011 at 12:06 pm Jane(Quote)
Ugh. Well, there goes my only possible charitable explanation for the doctor’s behavior.
I’m so sorry you were treated so badly by the people who were supposed to be caring for you.
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Lise Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 1:44 am Lise(Quote)
I´m so sorry you had this experience. Sounds like something to make a formal complaint about!!
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