Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“We Offer All Of The Moms Who Are In Labor Pitocin…”
“We offer all of the moms who are in labor Pitocin, to facilitate labor.” – OB to mother upon her arrival at the hospital.
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Pocketbuddha had this to say,
Dec 25, 2011 @ 11:02 am (Quote)
Facilitate: to ease, help, or make
Pitocin labour is definitely not easy. You don’t need to make labour happen as you just said you offer it to women already in labour, and if I am already in labour what the heck do I need your help for!?
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Weep had this to say,
Dec 25, 2011 @ 11:12 am (Quote)
Mine. Well the strangeness about this comment was that it was Said to me 3 minutes after arrival in which I had 2 contractions. Not after a check. Of course I declined. 1 hour later my 3rd Child was born.
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Unless you have a ’85 lafite rothschild, I won’t be having anything with this baby.
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When I read this, my first thought was the same as an above thought. “Well, at least they offer and don’t force it.” (paraphrasing) But then I started thinking that it still isn’t good. There are a lot of women out there that haven’t researched the dangers of pitocin and would gladly take it to “facilitate” their labor. They don’t know any better! The medical staff’s job it to take good, appropriate care of the woman and babies and giving pit to every woman that walks through the door is NOT taking good care.
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jaed Reply:
December 25th, 2011 at 4:49 pm (Quote)
Exactly. If they’re telling every woman that “pit facilitates labor”, most of them probably believe it. (And dangers aside, the fact is that pitocin makes labor considerably more painful. Here comes the epidural, here comes the cascade of interventions. It makes me wonder how innocent the policy is.)
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Weep had this to say,
Dec 25, 2011 @ 2:25 pm (Quote)
Mama Mirage had this to say,
Dec 26, 2011 @ 5:20 am (Quote)
My back labor is cringing at the thought.
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I’ve given birth in a hospital four times and never been offered pitocin, yay! I think even an “offer” of pitocin is a dangerous thing, because if a mom doesn’t know much about it, she may think, “Oh, it will speed up my labor,” without having any clue that it may make the pain worse, not to mention the other side effects.
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As long as it is “offer” and not push, coerce, or force, then ok. I decline your offer. Unfortunately, I doubt that is the case. Is there another hospital close by? I’ll go there.
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BeckyJ Reply:
December 25th, 2011 at 3:26 pm BeckyJ(Quote)
That’s the problem with that. They WILL coerce a patient into taking it. I was continually coerced and prodded to take an epidural while in labor with my 2nd child. The nurse I had kept saying “Don’t feel like a failure if you get the epidural, you can get one.” *eyeroll*
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