I can't imagine, even in our incessant desire to 'know' the baby before it is born throguh ultrasounds etc that any women would be happy if she knew how it was obtained ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isis Caple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:34 AM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Pulling hair from fetal scalp
> Jo, Mercy Hospital for Women and Royal Womens in Melbourne. > > I am so glad for the responses I have had so far. I had never heard of this > happening, I truly thought it was a joke being played on me. Yet for 2 > different women in two different hospitals to share their experience of it > was mind boggling. How many other women and their babes experience this yet > don't realise the realities? The reality being it is basically useless. At > least now I am aware of it and I can give my clients options, if and when > the alligator forceps are brandished. But then some women would love to have > a lock of their babes hair stickytaped to a piece of cardboard before it is > born. Would go nicely beside the whiz bang 3D/4D ultrasound snapshots. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean & Jo > Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Pulling hair from fetal scalp > > That's is what I feel about this Kristie...what happens if babe was > presenting face first and you pokes their eye out with this thing!? My > AROM had already been preformed and the dr used the alligator thingies > with me. It is one of the clearer memories I have of that stage of > labour. I remember the way in which the dr looked at the hair with that > stupid almost comically quizzical look and said "well dark hair it is!" > AS if I cared!! > > I thought that perhaps it was some way of getting some feotal blood to > sample but there was nothing recorded on the notes that the procedure > had been done or the results. > > Anyone else heard of this?? > > > Isis, can I ask where this was done? > > Jo > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristie > Orchard > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Pulling hair from fetal scalp > > Goodmorning > Although I have seen ARM performed with forceps I've never seen it being > > done with the express purpose of trying to pull baby's hair or skin > (thankfully!). > Is it presumed no hair = no head ?!(as opposed to not engaged/bald,etc) > I wonder if the practitioner performing this procedure would like their > head, face, bottom, testicles or other presenting body part tugged with > a > surgical instrument when just trying to be born?! > > Kristie > > >From: "Isis Caple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: <[email protected]> > >Subject: [ozmidwifery] Pulling hair from fetal scalp > >Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:35:01 +1000 > > > >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 > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Only one more day left to find $5000 on eBay: > http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/705-10129-5668-323?ID=1 > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 3/27/2005 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 3/27/2005 > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. > > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
