Oct 6

Thoughtful Thursday! “I Will Do Anything To Have You Avoid A Cesarean Section…”

“I will do anything to have you avoid a cesarean section, I’ll move her myself if I have to. I don’t like cesarean sections and you aren’t having one.” – OB to mother with a breech baby, during a prenatal.

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Telula had this to say, Oct 6, 2011 @ 3:29 pm (Quote)

Love!

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Ash had this to say, Oct 6, 2011 @ 4:32 pm (Quote)

On first reading I absolutely loved this quote, then I read the second half and my question became what happens if she couldn’t ‘move her myself’? Will she then be required to have the c section or would she deliver vaginally?

I have heard so many stories of OBs telling their patients ‘I hate c sections’ and then the patient ending up with a c section. But because the OB ‘hates’ c sections of course they did everything possible to avoid one. Yet their c section rate is at least above 40% and one which was much higher.

Gosh, when did I become so cynical? I hate that I now read alterer motives in everything that is being said

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Jade Reply:
October 7th, 2011 at 5:59 am Jade(Quote)

alterer = ulterior

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Jess had this to say, Oct 6, 2011 @ 5:28 pm (Quote)

I agree. I want to like this, but the jerk doctor that was on call when I had my c-section emphatically told me that “he was as midwifey as they come.” %^&*ing liar. I hope this worked out for the OP.

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first time mommy had this to say, Oct 6, 2011 @ 6:47 pm (Quote)

Yay! What a great OB )

And I’m *pretty* sure that the OP was happy with this OB as it’s on Thoughtful Thursday!!

If I had an OB say that to me and then did a compete 180 on me, took back all those “i will help you” promises, and got all knife happy, I wouldn’t submit it here for Thoughtful Thursday

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BeckyJ had this to say, Oct 7, 2011 @ 6:34 am (Quote)

I LOVE this! It angers me, it PAINS me to see women go in to get cut for breech babies. “oh your baby’s breech. Let’s schedule your c-section, then, shall we?” Just catch the damn baby, doc. Hands off the breech!

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sara r. had this to say, Oct 7, 2011 @ 3:06 pm (Quote)

Agreed that this doctor was probably geniune since is was posted here
I have a friend who had that kind of OB- she had quite a high-risk pregnancy, bed rest for months, GD, and a posterior baby. She labored for 12 hours for just ONE CM in dilation! Finally with a lot of help from the nurses and the OB who helped to turn the baby manually into a better position, she did birth her baby vaginally. I was shocked that she was so supported in her goal of a vaginal birth, but was so happy for her.

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Barbara Kelley Reply:
October 8th, 2011 at 9:24 am Barbara Kelley(Quote)

As a mother of two, my second baby a GD, multi-factorial high-risk pregnancy, also posterior (all my seem to be…), also bedrest for months and months (6 1/2 total w/ a threatened miscarriage at one point), I cannot tell you how MUCH I loved reading this post!!! Thank you so much! It restores a bit of faith in humanity!

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