>From: "Marijke Eastaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: re : love and best wishes for Yuletide >Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 07:34:38 +1030 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Dear friends, Ive just nearly recovered from one of those marathon labour >and births that give me hope and I wish to share with you all. First baby >planning to birth at home. The labour got long 24hrs + for the mother and >there was arrest at 3cm for 4 hours. Exhaustion starting to set in so I >decided to transfer for assessment , the back up Dr someone I'm getting to >really ENJOY working with. >There are some GOOD Drs out there. Anyway pow wow amongst all and >epidural was decided upon. This was duly done and in the meantime to my >absolute frustration the discovery that the Obst wasn't available and if >we were to put up synto to augment labour there was no csection >available. OK get past the anger, support this woman and her partner and >mother and two support people. Off we go to the big smoke in an Ambulance >(my first time ever )down the hill. Upon arrival , I'm all geared up for >tackling the routines /policy and nast people, etc but also needing help. >Turns out we had two wonderful Midwives , they respected this woman's >wishes , read her birth plan a Kiwi Dr she gave the nod with all of it, >the anaesthetist was even funny! We were so blessed to progress to a >normal vaginal delivery squatting Intact some 9 hours after arrival. Yeh I >know she had epidural, but why are rules made unless you can't stretch >them a bit. She went home that day. THANK YOU UNIVERSE for giving me >some hope for the future. > >Of course there is much more to this story but I'm so very conscious of >confidentiality. Love to you all, Marijke
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