Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“…Don’t Move Like That, Your Moving The Monitor! We Can’t Tell How The Baby is Doing.”
“No you can’t stand up. And don’t move like that, you’re moving the monitor! We can’t tell how the baby is doing!” – L&D Nurse to mother in labor.
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Kate, Ren's Mama had this to say,
Jan 24, 2012 @ 6:32 pm (Quote)
SO glad this nurse has her priorities straight :/
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Rachel Garcia had this to say,
Jan 24, 2012 @ 6:33 pm (Quote)
i tell my clients that its on the nurse to adjust if she wants a good strip.. not on the momma. the nurse can stand upside down on her head for all I care if she wants to get that heartbeat.. but momma WILL get comfortable. the end.
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Cassaundra had this to say,
Jan 24, 2012 @ 6:37 pm (Quote)
this has happened to me with EVERY one of my last three births!!! amongst other horrible things said and done to me by L&D nurses which makes this look like good morning kiss. it’s to the point where my instinctive reaction to an L&D nurse is to tell them to get away or get punched in the face. damn good thing i am not having anymre babies eh?
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Had this said to me quite a few times. At 34 weeks I was admitted for low amniotic fluid and evwrytime I moved in my sleep the monitor would come off. Then a nurse would march in, flip on all the lights and make me move around for her to adjust it. The second night of no sleep I ripped off the monitor and chucked it at the nurse around 2am and screamed for her to get out of my room. Told her the next burse could cme monitor me for 15 min after shift change. Not my proudest moment, but dammit, it’s hard enough to get some sleep when you’re pregnant!
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Chara Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 7:32 pm (Quote)
As if it’s not hard enough to sleep at that point in your pregnancy… Sleep deprivation is a form of torture, you know.
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Cameron Reply:
January 24th, 2012 at 8:11 pm (Quote)
Good for you! If more women did this, maybe we’d see a change in routine hospital “care”.
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Lisa Reply:
January 25th, 2012 at 5:48 am (Quote)
Dude, how is that NOT your proudest moment?! LOL, that’s awesome!
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Kim Reply:
January 25th, 2012 at 1:00 pm (Quote)
Okay, so I am a little proud of it:) although evwrytime i saw a certain doctor at my practice she would say “oh, so you’re the one who throws things at nurses” I think she must have been the one on call that night, but I never liked her anyways lol.
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The last time I researched, there were NO studies proving that continuous fetal monitoring had better outcomes for mom or baby than intermittent fetal monitoring. Have there been any studies proving it since then?
Tending the monitors has become like a religion in some hospitals.
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Aron Reply:
January 25th, 2012 at 6:26 am (Quote)
All evidence continues to support the conclusion that intermittent fetal monitoring is just as effective at catching problems as continuous, and less likely to end in surgical births. But like you said monitors are tended as sacred relics the clients are blessed to be able to wear. Bringing up the evidence is tantamount to blasphemy.
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My sister went through this, though at least the nurse wasn’t rude about it. But she was confined to bed, strapped to monitors, IV full of pitocin (aka “cascade of interventions”) and they wouldn’t let her lay on her left side, the side she was most comfortable on, because the monitor couldn’t keep track of the baby’s heartbeat. I kept telling her it was the nurse’s job to keep track of the heartbeat, not hers, but she just didn’t have it in her to fight.
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The blasted monitors were removed with my last 2 hospital births when I hit transition. They hurt and had to go.
With my last hospital birth the nurse came in to yell at my sister because I took off the monitor. This was the same nurse at the same time that told me I couldn’t be ready to push because she had just checked me 15 minutes earlier and I was at a 7.
I’m SO glad I had my 4th and final baby at home. No one yelled at me one single time during that labor.
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Because the monitor is giving birth?
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