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Engram wrote: Well, she finally came at 41 weeks on Friday, 13th October at 7:11am (GMT+10). The vital statistics: Name: Lara Michelle Weight: 3500 g / 7lb 11oz (I think! not sure of exact conversion) Length: 52 cm / 20.5 in Head circ: 35 cm / 13.8 in She turned out to be undiagnosed breech and had to come out emergency c-section. Not the most pleasant experience, seeing as I was ready to push her out when they finally diagnosed the breech position and declared it was going to have to be a caeserian! I can write a birth story if anyone is interested. We just got back home today. She's doing great. Some teething problems with the breastfeeding but we're having a great go at it and looks like it's going to work! YAY!! Congratulations on her safe arrival! I'm so sorry about the unexpected section--exactly the same thing happened to me with my second baby. Hope you have a good recovery. Leslie |
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Elfanie wrote: what happened?? I mean...why did they have to do an emergency cesarean?? Not the OP, but where I am very few doctors will deliver breech babies vaginally. My OB was, in fact, the only one who would in town, and he would not do mine because I did not have a "proven pelvis." (Think it's pretty proven at this point, LOL.) Leslie |
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Glad everyone's doing well, and sorry to hear it didn't go as planned. I know what it's like for the unexpected breech - and the rush, rush emergency section Hope all continues to go well with the BF! "Engram" wrote in message ... Well, she finally came at 41 weeks on Friday, 13th October at 7:11am (GMT+10). The vital statistics: Name: Lara Michelle Weight: 3500 g / 7lb 11oz (I think! not sure of exact conversion) Length: 52 cm / 20.5 in Head circ: 35 cm / 13.8 in She turned out to be undiagnosed breech and had to come out emergency c-section. Not the most pleasant experience, seeing as I was ready to push her out when they finally diagnosed the breech position and declared it was going to have to be a caeserian! I can write a birth story if anyone is interested. We just got back home today. She's doing great. Some teething problems with the breastfeeding but we're having a great go at it and looks like it's going to work! YAY!! Kasia +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Matthew 21 June 2005 Lara Michelle 13 Oct 2006 Check out our family at http://www.geocities.com/engram_au/ |
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Not the OP, but where I am very few doctors will deliver breech babies vaginally. My OB was, in fact, the only one who would in town, and he would not do mine because I did not have a "proven pelvis." (Think it's pretty proven at this point, LOL.) I'm presuming the same, the vast majority of the developed world if they diagnose a breech, it's straight to c-section, "because that's what we do for breeches", ok if it was a footling breech then they really would need to do it, but if you've got a good breech presentation and the women is already fully dilated then there is really no reason not to go for a breech birth, the problem is, if you demand that in the hospital, the chances of it being safe are probably quite low, is the doctor going to stay hands off? I doubt it, you'll end up with a breech extraction and all the associated risks, of if they do stay hands off, then if there are problems then will they know what to do, again probably not? But it's sad for women and Kasia in particular, as a fully dilated multip she would have been an ideal candidate for a hands off breech birth. Anne |
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Name: Lara Michelle
Weight: 3500 g / 7lb 11oz (I think! not sure of exact conversion) Length: 52 cm / 20.5 in Head circ: 35 cm / 13.8 in She turned out to be undiagnosed breech and had to come out emergency c-section. Not the most pleasant experience, seeing as I was ready to push her out when they finally diagnosed the breech position and declared it was going to have to be a caeserian! I can write a birth story if anyone is interested. Well congratulations, it must really feel like "they" cocked up after scaring you earlier saying you'd need a c-section and what not. It's all beside the point now, but you may want to find out more about breech birth, assuming that it was a good breech position (i.e. not footling breech), given that you were fully dilated and also a 2nd timer, you would have been an ideal candidate for a problem free breech birth. One of the mantras of radical midwives is that a progressing breech is a good one, which you proved by getting to 10cm! The first article on this page http://www.radmid.demon.co.uk/breech.htm is good (the rest is too, but the first sums it up really well). Congratulations again! Anne |
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Elfanie wrote:
On 18 Oct 2006 10:22:18 -0700, "Leslie" wrote: Elfanie wrote: what happened?? I mean...why did they have to do an emergency cesarean?? Not the OP, but where I am very few doctors will deliver breech babies vaginally. My OB was, in fact, the only one who would in town, and he would not do mine because I did not have a "proven pelvis." (Think it's pretty proven at this point, LOL.) Yes...but they usually 'simply' do a cesarean...not an emergency cesarean. I was wondering if there was a complication (such a prolapsed cord - more common with breech babies) that necessitated an EMERGENCY cesarean...?? Perhaps she meant unscheduled cesearean, rather than emergency? I know most people probably use those two terms interchangably, although technically speaking it's not correct. I think that to most women, when they've been laboring and dilating for hours and hours and hours, and then mid-process the vaginal birth gets converted to a cesearean birth, most women would label that an emergency c-section. But I'm guessing you know that... : ) -- Jamie Earth Angels: Taylor Marlys, 1/3/03 Addison Grace, 9/30/04 Check out the family! -- www.MyFamily.com, User ID: Clarkguest1, Password: Guest Become a member for free - go to Add Member to set up your own User ID and Password |
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Yes...but they usually 'simply' do a cesarean...not an emergency
cesarean. I was wondering if there was a complication (such a prolapsed cord - more common with breech babies) that necessitated an EMERGENCY cesarean...?? it would be an emergency because Kasia was 10cm, at least that was how I interpreted "seeing as I was ready to push her out when they finally diagnosed the breech position", so if they had waited baby would have come out (which is argueably what should have been done). Even if it was diagnosed earlier in labour, any c-section occuring after labour has started is usually deemed an emergency c-section, though as you say, not always an emergency situation, but I'm not sure what you would called it, because it's not planned in the sense that an elective c-section is. Cheers Anne |
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Perhaps she meant unscheduled cesearean, rather than emergency? I know
most people probably use those two terms interchangably, although technically speaking it's not correct. I think that to most women, when they've been laboring and dilating for hours and hours and hours, and then mid-process the vaginal birth gets converted to a cesearean birth, most women would label that an emergency c-section. though again, you could argue that this is emergency c-section, if progression is truely not occuring, and baby is not coming out vaginally then at some point it is going to become an ermegency. I've heard the term crash c-section, which seems to be when it really is an emergency, thus distinguishing it from emergency as in, it's happening soonish because the women is in labour. It's also terms used in hospital scheduling, operating theatres tend to have an elective list and depending on the size of the hospital a theatre dedicated to emergencies, or slotting them into the same theatre, so emergency again might not mean needs to be done now. In the hospital that was local to me in the UK, for an emergency that wasn't dire you could easily wait 3 days to be slotted in, being nil by mouth until 10pm each day when they confirmed they weren't going to do you that day! Cheers Anne |
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Elfanie wrote: Yes...but they usually 'simply' do a cesarean...not an emergency cesarean. I was wondering if there was a complication (such a prolapsed cord - more common with breech babies) that necessitated an EMERGENCY cesarean...?? Oh, I see what you mean . . . well, when it happened to me, I was at 8 cm, and I was pretty out of it by that time, seeing as how I was SO disappointed about my VBAC and was hysterically crying . . . but things did seem to move rather quickly and they were sure acting like it was an emergency. I think they are just petrified that the baby will come out bottom first before they can stop it, when it is so close to the end of labor. Leslie |
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Jamie Clark wrote:
Perhaps she meant unscheduled cesearean, rather than emergency? I know most people probably use those two terms interchangably, although technically speaking it's not correct. As far as the hospital is concerned, if it's not scheduled, it's emergent. If it's a big emergency, it's a crash c-section. They mostly care about how it impacts their bed scheduling ;-) Best wishes, Ericka |
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