Cas, your niece is SO lucky to have you there to debrief & listen.
Wishing peace & love to all of you.
Jen
Wayne and Caroline McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wayne and Caroline McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all!
Well, last night we got a call that our neice Sarah was in labour and at
the hospital after having 2 days of back labour (early labour for 18
hours and active for 12 according to the hospital). She was exhausted so
she had an epidural and the rest you can guess. The thing is, she had
dilated to six cm but doc comes and in and says it has been too long and
that the baby's heartrate was dipping a bit with each contraction (which
is normal is it not?) and it "might be in distress in a few hours time"
(doc's bedtime my thought was). So, he coerced them into having the
c-section on the offchance that the baby "might be in distress" later.
Maybe she would have been too tired to keep going much longer I don't
know but I do know an unnecessary c-section when I hear words like that.
Apparently the attending midwife at that point was piss! ed off and
rightly so. Sarah's mum says Sarah was quite traumatised by the whole
thing.
I am going to visit her and her new baby girl tomorrow to see how she's
doing. That said, I cannot stress enough the importance of giving a new
mother a listening ear after an experience like that. Mothers need to
debrief..their feelings are important and they often get sidelined by
family and friends because everyone focuses on the baby.
Cheers,
Cas
Cas McCullough
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