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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“If She Even Sits Up, The Baby Could Fall Out.”
“We don’t do that here. It is dangerous for the baby. She is 10cm. If she even sits up, the baby could fall out!” – L&D Nurse to doula who inquired if using a squat bar during labor was possible.
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Alyson Miers had this to say,
Nov 21, 2011 @ 7:05 pm (Quote)
Lemme guess: the doctor hasn’t arrived yet?
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Had a nurse once refer to it as a roll bar. Moms aren’t allowed to push on the toilet by many nurses — baby might fall into the toilet.
If the baby falls out, just be sure there is bed under her (which there would be if she were using the squat bar).
Good grief!
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IF Survivor had this to say,
Nov 21, 2011 @ 7:07 pm (Quote)
I’m laughing so hard I can’t see straight! If I was that doula I don’t know if I would have laughed in the nurses’ face or looked at her like she had 3 heads… either way, I would have had a hard time managing a professional, non-judgmental face.
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Bonita Reply:
November 21st, 2011 at 8:37 pm (Quote)
I agree! I’m pretty easy to read for most people and I’m sure my face would tell her all she would need ot know about how I felt about her. This kind of stupidity is what keeps me from birthing in the hospital, because while there may be plenty of competent L&D staff, it would be my luck to get THIS nurse.
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Seriously? Fall out? No pushing, no work, no counting, no nothing? SIGN ME UP!
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When I had DS in the hospital with a CNM I was told that being upright is dangerous with my slightly elevated blood pressure. I was held down against my will. But dang it, if I had squatted he would have just fallen out? Man that woulda saved me from 2.5h of purple pushing!
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Small Wonders Birth Services had this to say,
Nov 21, 2011 @ 8:50 pm (Quote)
This was my client’s birth. And this is not the only ignorant comment made that night. And to the people who said they wouldnt know what to say in the situation : NEITHER DID I!!! lol I just kinda stood there like ….say what? She couldn’t use a birth ball either because she was “too close to pushing”… but I thought you just said the baby just falls out? Poor momma had to lay on her back even though she didnt have an epidural because the nurses were afraid of the natural process. Still an amazingly beautiful birth! 
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Tee Reply:
November 21st, 2011 at 8:57 pm (Quote)
If I thought you could get away with it, I’d suggest bolting the door shut and catching your client’s next baby yourself! Momma and baby are most certainly bound to be in better hands if you do!
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Jane Reply:
November 22nd, 2011 at 3:37 am (Quote)
Wow, just amazing the amount of ignorance and fear you’re describing. At least next time you attend a client at that location, you know to bring your own equipment for her. :-b Maybe if the nurses watch a mom in an upright position, it won’t terrify them any longer.
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Sheva Reply:
November 22nd, 2011 at 7:02 am (Quote)
At a birth I attended, the nurse said the hospital didn’t have squat bars. So I asked a different nurse, and, *magic!!* she found one in less than two minutes!! I mentioned that the other nurse had said there weren’t any, and they kind of brushed me off, but mom did get to use the bar!
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Heather Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 6:34 pm (Quote)
It’s amazing how many different answers you get from asking different nurses in the same hospital. Having just come out of the hospital (uterine infection, bah! so much for avoiding the hospital with the newest baby T_T), that happened SO many freaking times…
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juliewashere88 had this to say,
Nov 21, 2011 @ 10:52 pm (Quote)
So basically he’s saying, a woman can’t use that position because it’s very nature could make things easier for her…
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You all see this too, right?
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Sheva Reply:
November 22nd, 2011 at 5:48 am (Quote)
Right, and also, they nag us to take epidurals to make it easier, but pushing upright to make it easier is not ok.
Seems to me the ones they want it to be easier for are themselves.
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Racheal Reply:
November 28th, 2011 at 11:53 am (Quote)
I wish it made things easier…lmao. I pushed for hours, most of it in a squatted position. Baby sure the heck didn’t ‘fall out’. Perhaps I needed to be in that hospital instead of at home? hmmm…. wonder what the after birth treatment of babes is like there… perhaps babies born there have a tendancy to fall out & run for the hills…lmao
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road2vba2c had this to say,
Nov 22, 2011 @ 4:13 am (Quote)
Too… much… stoopid…
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danielle had this to say,
Nov 22, 2011 @ 4:17 am (Quote)
I was lucky my nurse allowed me to shit straight up thru a contraction and held the mointors in the right place… Told me that to move the baby down the canal to lay on my left side through as many contractions as possible. I wouldve seriously decked this nurse your client had.
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Is anyone else hearing John Cleese in their head right about now?
“Doctor, I’d like to sit up now.”
“OH, Heavens no, my Dear! The baby could just slip right out! We can’t have that now, can we? No, no..can’t let the equipment get rusty. Now just lay back and let someone qualified get to work…”
*ping*
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This is hysterical. How much I would have LOVED it if my baby just “fell out” instead of my having to push for an hour, using my every last reserve of strength to get him out! LOL!
Maybe I’ll get me one of those “roll bars” for my current pregnancy/baby. Snort.
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Haven’t there been submissions here from doctors saying things like, “Why do you want to walk around? Gravity won’t help anything.” and “Giving birth in an upright position will not help the baby come down at all.” and so on. Huh.
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Mama Wrench Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:28 am (Quote)
We have ALWAYS been at war with East Asia.
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But…it’s birth…we WANT the baby to come out!
And sheez, if it was that easy for a baby to come out, that it could just tumble out of the mom when she sat up, then why the heck are all you nurses making extra work for yourself standing there SCREAMING at the mom “PUSH-PUSH-PUSH-123-456-KEEP PUSHING!!!7-8-9-10–STOP!”? Do you guys like extra work? Just sit the mom up, and if the baby tumbles out, then the mom didn’t get an episiotomy and you don’t need to scream at her to push and the doctor can collect ten grand for nothing.
How is this a bad thing?
Or….maybe you just have no idea how to use a squat bar and are intimidated by a doula who does? Hmmm?
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