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Midwives and my birth/story
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? I'm just curious since pitocin was never mentioned to me when my water broke. It was quite awhile before contractions began, a few hours longer before they got serious and regular. Baby was born 23 hours after my water broke. I was under OB care but dealt with the hospital and nurses until things were fairly far along (perhaps about 6cm/14 hours after my water broke - as a guesstimate). Then the doctor started popping in and out, but not much. He was a stand in for my regular OB. He was actually a fertility specialist and was not usually at births. I'm just curious to know if he followed protocol or not. My regular OB was at #2 and she was in and out a lot more from the get go, I was induced with that one though. -- Nikki Mama to Hunter (5) and Luke (3) |
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