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Old May 17th 04, 05:21 PM
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Default Midwives and my birth/story


Elfanie wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 May 2004 10:46:03 -0500, "Nikki" wrote:

Elfanie wrote:

administering pitocin a couple hours after water breaks

spontaniously

If the midwife HADN'T have given you Pitocin, and if you'd ended up
with an infection from having your membranes ruptured for longer, then
the midwife could have been brought up on charges of malpractice for
not doing the "standard of practice", which is to administer Pitocin.


Is it really 'standard of practice' to administer pitocin so soon after a
person's water breaks? I thought they waited a number of hours for labor

to
start on its own before taking that step?


This REALLY depends on where you are...
Most places will wait 5-12 hours, depending on where you are of
course.
the "24-hour mark" also depends on where you are...some care
providers want you "in good active labor" 24 hours after your water
breaks, and thus might feel comfortable waiting for 12-14 hours.
Others want the baby BORN 24 hours after your water breaks...those
care providers usually start pushing pitocin after just a few hours.

They'll wait 24-48 hours assuming there's no sign on infection (eg rise in
temperature) here before inducing.
Debbie