Re: [ozmidwifery] Interesting..

[Debbie Slater]

Yes - I suppose what I was trying to say was that it is considered normal for babies to wee 'in utero', so why shouldn't it be normal to pass meconium.  When Jamie had his problems and I had the polyhydramnios, I was given Indomethacine to control Jamie's urine output and so reduce the amount of amniotic fluid.

Debbie

Mary Murphy wrote:

 

Debbie wrote:  "It is well known that babies 'wee' in utero - so why not 'the other'?"

 

Deb, it is not so much that they do it, but how we interpret it.  We have for years been told that meconium in the liqour is a sign of "Fetal Distress"  There have been many unnecessary operative procedures carried out on women and babies because it was concluded that slowed Fetal Heart Rate (mostly normal head compression dips) and meconium stained liqour meant distressed baby.  Then Voila!  Apgars of 9 & 10 at birth or C/S.  Midwives, women and doctors too have taken the blame for all sorts of things that happen to babies.  (Not denying some negligence claims are true.)  It has been known by midwives gor generations that women past their "due date" frequently have meconioum stained liqour. If is present...panic!  Now we also know that the symptoms of meconium pneumonia and "meconium aspiration" are mostly present in the lungs before birth because babies do these marvelous "breathing actions" that we didn't know about before U.S studies told us so.  It is very complicated.  So, this piece of research is a very helpful piece of the jig-saw.  cheers, MM

 

 

 

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