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Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 7:34
AM
Subject: re : love and best wishes for
Yuletide
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
