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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“…Remember When I Told You To Get On Your Hands And Knees?”
“Oh look, a fully posterior baby. Remember when I told you to get on your hands and knees?” – OB to mother as the baby was being born by unplanned cesarean.
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Well, getting on your hands and knees can help turn a posterior baby. But that’s SO not the point here! It’s not foolproof. It doesn’t work 100 percent of the time. This doctor sounds like she’s accusing the mother of not doing that and therefore she is blaming the mother for the c-section. That’s uncalled for!
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Jenny Islander had this to say,
Dec 23, 2011 @ 4:41 pm (Quote)
“You literally cannot escape me right now. This baby won’t be born without me in the room and if you try to get up and escape me you’ll bleed to death. So now is the perfect time to talk about what a bad mother you are.” Who the hell is this, Dolores Umbridge?
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from what I know the reason posterior babies end in c/s isn’t because they can’t come out, but because they cause lengthy labors. so maybe if doc had been a bit more patient…? I hear of all these sections at like 30 hours for “failure to progress” where as my SIL birthed her posterior baby in a tub at a birthing center after 50 hours of labor.
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I birthed my fully OP baby after a 3 hour, 4 minute labor. I had an episiotomy because every time I pushed, all it did was bend her neck backwards, so the episiotomy opened me up enough for her to come out.
Oh, and that was with no pain meds. My second birth and fastest labor by far.
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Amanda had this to say,
Dec 23, 2011 @ 6:32 pm (Quote)
I don’t get it. Both my boys were posterior. Came out looking straight at me and neither of those labors took longer that 18 hours. My second even had a nuchal hand and a 13cm cranial measurement at birth.
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Rebecca Reply:
December 24th, 2011 at 5:00 am (Quote)
Because you were willing to wait.
My daughter was posterior. Because I wasn’t progressing fast enough, they pushed the pit (I had an epidural) which put my daughter in distress. Suddenly they’re moving me around to stabilize her heart rate. Then I’m in an OR. Luckily, the anesthesiologist was delayed, because her heart rate stabilized and I was given the option to avoid surgery. Naomi was born about three and a half hours later. Remember, they want 1 cm an hour, which means no labor should last more than 10. Total bull, but there it is.
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Jessica had this to say,
Dec 23, 2011 @ 8:00 pm (Quote)
I’m guessing the mom tried this, or would have been happy to try anything else to avoid major surgery. Sometimes things don’t work. Maybe she wanted to get on her hands and knees but a pushy nurse kept complaining about the monitors. Maybe mom had an epidural and couldn’t move at all. Or maybe it made contractions unbearable and she had to stop before she wanted to. There’s no need to lecture in the middle of her C-Section.
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Remember when you broke my water without my permission? Remember when you insisted on pitocin because of your impatience? Remember when you denied me food and drink? Remember when you insisted on tying me up with 2 monitor belts, a blood pressure cuff and a pulse oximeter? Remember how you swore none of those things could affect labor?
Yeah…you were saying?
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Funny I managed a posterior baby with hands and knees only briefly at home because once I got to the hospital it just didn’t feel right that way. I felt right standing or squatting and BTW that is how I pushed her out too after the doc insisting I lay flat on my back. No pain meds or cutting required. During the CS is really NOT the time to be telling mom I told you so doc!
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Went to the hosipital at 5 centimeters, spent most of the remainder of time in the bed on my back with labor going well and very manageable. The OB did ask at one point if I had back pain, I did not. Never another mention of the possibility of a posterior baby. I got to 9 cent quickly then progression stalled. The OB advised me to change positions…like, on my hands and knees, or using the ball again, or walking around. I chose the ball as I was the most familiar with it, and it was the most comfortable for me. It worked and I was pushing in no time. I pushed, and pushed and pushed. She (the OB) checked where my son was in the canal and advised a c-section due to meconium in the water (when she broke it) and the coning of his head from being “stuck”. When she was pulling my son out her very first comment was, “Oh look. A fully posterior baby. Remember when I told you to get on your hands and knees?!” She said it like she knew all along he was posterior and that if I had followed her instructions I could have turned him and delivered vaginally. BS!!!
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Telula Reply:
December 28th, 2011 at 3:46 pm (Quote)
My older sister was posterior and they pushed her back in, turned her around, and pulled her out with forceps.
I do think a c-section might have been better in that case, but my mom’s doctor was a real “gem” and didn’t want to deal with it.
I hope that you and your baby are doing wonderful and that you are healing well.
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The more of this site I read….the more I think I will deliver my next baby at home….in the tub….just the two of us……
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Fuck you, OB! My son was posterior, I did tons of hands and knees, going up and down stairs, walking, birthing ball, birthing pool and anything else me and the midwife could think of! 30+ hours of labor later, I ended up with a C/S.
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Jennifer Reply:
December 23rd, 2011 at 4:49 pm Jennifer(Quote)
I had the same thing happen to me. I spent so much time on my hands and knees I think I forgot how to walk. Still had an OP stuck baby and a cesarean!
Stupid OB!
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