We have had a few here lately & I think it's to do with the practitioners. Docs are beeing taught to try to have the whole baby born with just one push. The theory behind this is the push that gives birth to the baby's head is the strongest and if the shoulders follow rapidly they won't have time to get stuck!!(Go figure). As a result we are getting an increased number of shoulder dystocias, and with in that group a number of fractured clavicles, where as I'd rarely ever seen them before. They appear to occur for the 2 docs that don't wait for restitution, but this is just anecdotal.
Carol
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>Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:26:36 +0800
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>Quite possibly.
>I do remember one very nasty shoulder dystocia waaaay back, resulting in a very depressed large baby with # clavicles. It was not a nice birth at all, but I was not really involved in it having come into the room on the emergency call bell.
>I like what Gloria has written - makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately I can imagine that 'panic mode' would set in within a hospital birth and very few (drs) would be prepared to wait in such a situation.
>Sue
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> What is going on here do you think? Could position have anything to do with it? Eg. "bed dystocia"?
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> Sue wrote: I have seen several, not always from shoulder dystocia, sometimes from that though, sometimes just a 'difficult' birth, one not so long ago was from a straight forward birth with no apparent reason.
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> I agree that it is not a hugely serious situation and that the bubs do not suffer long-term damage, although obviously not the best!
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> Gloria wrote: . I've never had one in my work either
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> Mary wrote: I have NEVER seen a #clavicle in 26 yrs of both hospital & home midwifery,
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