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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I had a C Section, no problem there for me. I was at 39 weeks and had not dilated at all. My 36 week ultrasound showed him at 8 pounds already, which is why we induced. They tried the first induction drug which did not soften my cervix but caused the Little Man distress. My Doctor was fine with continuing the induction but certain we would end up at a C Section. If he couldn't handle the starter drugs, he was not going to handle Pitosin (sp) Little Man was 10 pounds 2 ounces and never made it into the birth canal so he was only coming via C Section. Thank God my doctors were reading the signs right.
I just wish that Doctors were more focused on case by case decisions and less on statistics. Yes, C Sections to make life easier on the Doctor are wrong but pushing someone to 96 hours of labor and a risky birth is wrong as well.
Just frustrated.
And then reading the crap people post about how C Sections are wrong and how they should be avoided just cause me to scream.
OK, clearly my buttons have been pushed.
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Be glad they didn't just start you on pitocin (sp) like they did 31 years ago.
That stuff hurts. Note back labor and at that hospital you couldn't get up at all.
They also didn't particularly like giving pain meds.
Though when a medical student suffered a side effect to the pitocin, I got pain meds.
Said medical student got a free trip to the ER, pain meds and anti-inflammatories and quite possibly his face x-rayed.
Doctor told him to hold my leg, I had a contraction and proceeded to kick out. Not my fault his cheek was in my foot's path.
I also got a new doctor immediately.
It was at a military hospital.
Glad your big guy was ok.
My not so big guy 7 lbs 13 oz, 24 inches long, wound up with forcep scars.
It wasn't a canal problem, it was he was determined not to come out. I think him and the doctor played hide and seek for about 10 minutes.