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lisapr123
lisapr123 Posts: 863 Member
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Here's one I enjoyed. The C-section video was especially awesome, as that's the way our area hospitals are going now. I had a C, and it wasn't quite this "friendly" but it didn't feel overly clinical which was a fear of mine. And this quote summed it up for me: "...how a woman is spoken to and treated as she has her baby is much much more important than the actual mode of delivery." It wasn't my dream to delivery in an operating theatre, but the staff was so respectful of our wishes and choices that it made it a wonderful experience.

http://www.bestdaily.co.uk/your-life/news/a573059/a-healthy-baby-is-not-all-that-matters.html

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  • mommyrunning
    mommyrunning Posts: 495 Member
    This was a good article. With my second daughter I lost conciousness during labor due to a blood pressure issue this was after getting to 8 cm. Her heart rate dropped and I had doctors say we need to do a c section right away then they walked away. As I was being rolled to the OR I didn't know where my husband was and I was terrified. I leaned over to the nurse and told her my baby's name and asked her to make sure she was okay no matter what. After they took my daughter out they took her away without letting me see her. My husband had to stop them and ask them to show her to me. I felt invisible and terrified. It didn't have to be so traumatic if they had taken a few seconds to explain what was going on on the way to the OR. But I think healthcare professionals are getting better though.
  • lisapr123
    lisapr123 Posts: 863 Member
    This was a good article. With my second daughter I lost conciousness during labor due to a blood pressure issue this was after getting to 8 cm. Her heart rate dropped and I had doctors say we need to do a c section right away then they walked away. As I was being rolled to the OR I didn't know where my husband was and I was terrified. I leaned over to the nurse and told her my baby's name and asked her to make sure she was okay no matter what. After they took my daughter out they took her away without letting me see her. My husband had to stop them and ask them to show her to me. I felt invisible and terrified. It didn't have to be so traumatic if they had taken a few seconds to explain what was going on on the way to the OR. But I think healthcare professionals are getting better though.

    That's awful. All it takes is a few kind words and it could've been a much better experience. Yes, everything turned out okay but your memory shouldn't include that feeling of terror.
  • tiggerhammon
    tiggerhammon Posts: 2,211 Member
    My experience was very similar to Running's. I had been in labor for days (literally - days!) and baby was not coming out, she was stuck. I kept being insistant, hour after hour of pushing, that I was going to keep trying. The doctor would ask about every 20 minutes if I we could just do a Csection now. I kept insisting as long as I could that I was not giving up and he just kept trying to convince me to. He was cold, inconsiderate and not helpful at all. He sat on a chair in the corner, saying and doing nothing while the nurses were doing everything. He would pipe up occasionally asking if it were time to do a Csection yet and when I told him no, he would sit back in his chair again.
    There was absolutely no medical reason for a Csection, baby's heart rate was fine, I was fine but they refused to let me keep trying after reaching the point of pushing for over 24 hours. They said she had to be taken out and they weren't going allow me to keep going like that.
    The doctor got super excited and jumped up, and off we went to the operating room. He never said another word to me after that and never came and saw me after cutting baby out either. They took the baby and whisked her off to another room without even showing her to me, they wouldn't show her to my sister either (who was there with me.)
    My doctor, whom I had seen the whole 9 months, was out of town when I went in labor. This other doctor, whom I had never seen showed up and didn't care one bit about me or what I wanted, he wanted to do his Csection and go home. He VERY impatiently waited around until he got exactly what he wanted and off he went. He was headed home mere minutes after he was done and never came back.
    You can probably tell I am still upset about it - and it has been 8 years since that one. I have never been treated less like a person in my life.

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