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"Jodi" wrote in message nk.net... (sorry if this posts more than once, my ISP is going crazy!) Sometimes I get scared that if I ever get pregnant, I'll have to run into the woods to have my baby! I was visiting a mom from my church that just had her 2nd baby. When he came out he was somewhere around 11 lb. (which, I admit, is not tiny by any means). I asked her how labor went, and she said that she only pushed for 11 minutes, and came away with just one stitch! She said there was about 30 seconds where they were scared that his shoulder was stuck, but I guess it wasn't true dystocia, I'm not sure, but they didn't have to do anything drastic to get him out. Sounds like a pretty good birth... You would think she'd be very proud of her body and its abilities. Anyway, at the end of her story they said, "The doctor said that if they had known he was that big, they would have just given me a c-section on my due date!" I'm pretty sure the doctor wasn't joking around or anything, because he told her later that if she got pregnant again, they'd have to watch the baby's size pretty closely. I'm pretty sure none of this bothered her, and she doesn't know how much of a maven I am about such things, so I didn't say anything. Argh. My cousin recently had 10-pounder for her first. The doctor told her there was no way he'd let her go to 41 weeks like they did this time. She did have a bit of a hard time pushing him out and they used the vacuum, but my word, the girl delivered him vaginally without pain meds. She's done it once, why can't she do it again??? Doesn't it say something about standard of care if the doctor was willing to tell a woman who just had a **successful vaginal birth** that if only we had known, you'd have been in the OR??? **unnecessarily cough cough** How does the doctor not realize how ridiculous that sounds? NO kidding. You just proved you have a body that can birth a baby, but we're not going to let you do it again. She had a proven pelvis (her first was around 9 lb). Yet, if the doc had determined that her baby was 11 pounds, she would have had unnecessary surgery! To top it all off, this is the hospital I'll have to deliver at if I get preggers (we're both military, and it's a military hospital). I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Very sad! -- Joy Rose 1-99 Iris 2-01 Spencer 3-03 # 4 Sept 2005 |
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"Jamie Clark" wrote in message ... "Joybelle" wrote in message ... Argh. My cousin recently had 10-pounder for her first. The doctor told her there was no way he'd let her go to 41 weeks like they did this time. She did have a bit of a hard time pushing him out and they used the vacuum, but my word, the girl delivered him vaginally without pain meds. She's done it once, why can't she do it again??? She can, but she's going to have to take charge of her own care better, and refuse an induction. She could swap to a different care provider, whether its a more "lenient" OB or a midwife. Oh, no doubt she can! It's just that she believes what this doctor says. She only recently had the baby, and I hope by the time she does have her second, she will be able to see how awesome her body performed. This whole pregnancy she only spoke good of her doctor and how relaxed he was, though. I just wonder why some doctors have that logic... You had a big baby quite effectively, but we are NOT going to let THAT happen again! I really think some doctors' (in general) view of big babies, and a womans abilities to birth them, is detrimental to a woman's belief in her capabilities. -- Joy Rose 1-99 Iris 2-01 Spencer 3-03 # 4 Sept 2005 |
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