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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“That’s It! You’re Going To Sleep!”
“That’s it! You’re going to sleep!” – Anesthesiologist to mother who screamed in pain during two failed attempts to place an epidural prior to her cesarean section.
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Mama Wrench had this to say,
Jan 3, 2012 @ 10:31 am (Quote)
This was about when Daddy threw the guy out of the room, right?
…. Right?
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This is my cousin’s birth story. She was going to have a C-Section for a breech baby. As she was in the OR, the anesthesiologist attempted the spinal twice and kept grazing a nerve in her leg. She screamed because it hurt and scared her. After the second try, he yanked the cath out and yelled the comment to her. My cousin started to cry hysterically from the doctor’s behavior and the fact that her epidural didn’t work. She’s a nurse and one of the nurses in the room recognized her from their classes together and tried to comfort her. She was put under general anesthesia and missed her daughter’s birth.
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Jane Reply:
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:57 pm (Quote)
That’s horrible. The doctor doing the cesarean should have said, “THis isn’t necessary for today. We’ll wait and try again tomorrow.” If it’s not an emergency, then the hospital should be able to figure out how to find another anesthesiologist to take care of the mom.
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Dee Reply:
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:00 pm (Quote)
OMG. Unless it was a life or death emergency, why on earth didn’t the OB or another nurse request a different anesthesiologist? I imagine your cousin was too upset (understandably!) to think straight in that moment, but no one else spoke for her? This is so awful!!!
Oh, just read what Jane wrote–sorry for the almost repeat, but wow…frightening.
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DefinitionOfAWife had this to say,
Jan 3, 2012 @ 12:08 pm (Quote)
Omg! jessica that is horrible!! That Dr should not be allowed to practice 
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Well, sometimes spirals don’t work, for a variety of reasons. But there is never a good excuse to treat a patient that way. And particularly since this was not an emergent situation, there is no reason to not have a calm discussion with the patient about what’s going on and what the options are, so that she is empowered instead of traumatized. I’ve been the patient in a situation where a spinal failed and it WAS an emergency – my time was running out fast – and you know what? Everyone in the room remained calm, told me what was happening, and took care of me. Because that’s what professionals do. This guy was in no way professional. I hope he was reported.
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I have a similar story with my first. My water broke and my a$$ of a doc put my on pitocin right away claiming i’d “have a dead baby” if is didn’t. Well, with the pit pumping hard and heavy I ended up ordering an epidural, it didn’t work. I told them that, no one believed me. After 19 hours of labor she told me i needed a section because laboring any longer would kill the baby. They tried to use my epi to numb me, and it didn’t work, so they put me under. DIdn’t try again or anything. I missed my son’s birth and the first hours of his life because of that a-hole. I so wish I’d had a doula, or someone there, that could have told me the doc was full of bull and seen through her “dead baby” scare tactics. My husband was just as scared as I. For my second son, I had a sucessful VBAC and an awesome L&D nurse. The pp ward sucked, though, and they kept taking the baby, we finally told them they didn’t have our permission as his parents to remove him from the room. Ug. Next time, we are SO staying home.
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Assault anyone???? Ho. Ly. Crap.
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