Isis Caple wrote:
Hi ladies,
Can anyone shed some light on this procedure for me please?
A pair of flat bladed (like tweezers) scissors being used to perform
an amniotomy with the possibility of fetal scalp hair and skin being
‘pulled’ at the same time.
A good friend of mine only recently shared this experience with me
about her son’s birth (August 2003). Apparently she and her husband
were warned that hair and/or skin may be pulled, if hair was pulled it
was a good indication of the babe being head down. After the procedure
was performed, her son’s hair was presented to them on a piece of
cardboard.
This was verified by another woman who overheard and shared her
similar experience. I have never heard about this procedure, I can’t
find reference to it in any of my texts, or on the net. I must be
looking in the wrong areas.
Thanks- Isis
I remember this... the large teaching hospital I did my training in in
Melbourne used to use allegator forceps to do ARMs. When new doctors
were learning the ARM technique, the plucking of a foetal hair was
'proof' that the infact, had ruptured the membranes. I can still hear
them now..."I got a foetal hair..."
Horrid.
Jo (RM)
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