Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“You…Will Want A Cesarean Section.”
“You’ll be tired after 12 hours of labor and will want a cesarean section.” – OB to mother at 6 week prenatal appointment.
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You know doc… I just don’t think that’s true… some how after 24 hours of back labor… I STILL didn’t want to be sliced up like a thanks-giving turkey, but thanks for playing! **Runs Away**
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So what doc is saying is *every* labor is at least twelve hours, every woman is exhausted enough by then to welcome being cut open (if not sooner), and there are no alternatives to help a laboring woman push (no pun intended) through to the end. Did I miss anything?
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Sheva Reply:
May 13th, 2012 at 6:06 am (Quote)
Maybe add the implied comments that ‘all women are wusses’ and that ‘doctors are always needed to save the day’.
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Ashley had this to say,
May 12, 2012 @ 6:29 pm (Quote)
Truth be told at about hour 14 I was done– after going that long without water and food I was exhausted…. However by that point I couldn’t really even talk anymore. The gum I was allowed fell apart and stuck to the inside of my mouth. Fortunately for me they didn’t ask if I wanted one after hour 12 or by then I would have caved. Maybe you need to look at your policies if women can’t last through twelve hours of labor.
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Jespren had this to say,
May 12, 2012 @ 6:46 pm (Quote)
I have literally fainted from exhaustion, and on more than one occassion (okay, if you want to get technical it was a mix of dehydration and exhaustion and/or poor oxygen saturation and exhaustion but still), ironically never during labor. But yet I’ve never considered major surgery to be a good fix when I’ve found myself past exhaustion.
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Half the time I’m not even completely sure what I want here and now without massive amounts of thought… but you Mr. Doctor-man just *know* what I will want months from now when you very likely have just met me? Wow… aren’t you amazing? You would think you would take an act like that on the road… fame and fortune and all that.
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Oh my? What did our ancestors do when their labors went past 12 hours? According to this Dr they all gave up and whimpered in corners until these great MEN (who have never given birth) found a way to save us all from having to labor at all! *whew* All you need to do is consent to recovery from major surgery while caring for a newborn, increased risk of respiration distress in baby, risk of excessive bleeding in mom, risk of infection, a permanent scar, possible fertility problems, and risk of the placenta problems of the next pregnancy! Totally worth skipping a few hours of labor, don’t you agree?
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Kate @ Modern Alternative Mama had this to say,
May 13, 2012 @ 6:01 am (Quote)
How in the world could he know how long her labor was even going to last? How could he know how much of that time was even going to be active labor that she couldn’t sleep or rest through? He does he knows how she will tolerate labor? Is he planning to offer no coping mechanisms? Supposing it’s as bad as he’s saying…has he never heard of, I don’t know, an epidural so she can rest and still deliver vaginally?
There is just all kinds of stupid here.
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Kerri Reply:
May 13th, 2012 at 5:56 pm (Quote)
My sister just gave birth to twins and that’s exactly what she did. She was induced on Thursday night, by Friday night she was exhausted, and yes,thinking section. My mom asked if that was what she really wanted and suggested something to help her sleep instead. Saturday morning she gave birth and twin b was breech, born butt 1st
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In translation, this means:
“After 12 or so hours of no food or drink, being on your back not allowed to leave the bed with continuous monitoring and pit running at max, with an epidural that doesn’t work properly, you’ll be glad for me to swoop in and save the day with a C-section. But, you know, it’s not like there’s any other, more comfortable way to birth and you must endure labor by our rules.”
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There are a whole lot of ways this doctor went wrong in one sentence but what really gets to me more than anything is that he was saying all of this at the six week appointment! He doesn’t know this woman. He doesn’t have any idea how she will handle her pregnancy, never mind her birth! I mean, that’s one hell of an assumption to make, ain’t so?
(And yes, I know I said he and this doctor could very well be a woman. Not making assumptions, just picking a pronoun.)
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Details Reply:
May 14th, 2012 at 7:06 am (Quote)
On that point, if he says this to most of his patients does anybody stick aroudn to full term with him or does he just not notice when they all transfer out of his care? He might as well hang a sign that says ceasearans only on his door and no crunchy mama’s will enter. Might make a great back=up for a home birth midwife. Just don’t transfer to the hospital thinking you can relax with an epidural and still birth vaginally. This doctor is not a full service OB. This doctor only knows how to do c-sections. end of story.
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I put that into Google Translate and it came up with “I’ll be tired of the nurses’ regular updates about twelve hours into your labor, and I will want to perform a cesarean section.”
The good thing about this quote is the mother had 34 more weeks to get tired of this doctor and find a new care provider!
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