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Hi Sue It was about 11 weeks. I was booked
into the hospital clinic, had the USS and antenatal appointment and decided I couldn’t
stand the cattle market philosophy and changed to a GP who did deliveries (this
was a few years ago in NZ, prior to independent midwives). On my first
visit with my new GP he picked up that it was twins! Speaking of twins… I had my first ever twin delivery the
other evening. Lovely woman having baby 3 and 4. First twin was
cephalic presentation, second twin was breech. 37/40. She was
induced as part of that twin timing trial and had an epidural as that is the
policy. She thought the epidural was a bit ridiculous really. Had
not had pain relief for other births and felt a bit silly waiting for the
labour to progress. It all went very smoothly, it was just me and this
couple and we were laughing in between pushes and out came baby number
one. Then of course everyone else arrived and baby two was assisted by
the Dr. The woman refused an episiotomy despite the Dr thinking it was a
good idea. Baby came out bottom and foot first. I know it was pretty managed with Synto
infusion and epidural and CTG monitoring, but the woman was very very
thrilled with how it had gone. She had expected it to be far more
traumatic and certainly the birth of twin one was as quiet and beautiful as you
could want. Within half an hour of twin two delivering (approx 40mins
after twin 1) they were both on the breast. I am a big fan of home birth and find it
challenging sometimes to create a good atmosphere in the hospital. This
couple were so grateful that we had managed to create that atmosphere for
them. Lindsay From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Behalf Of Sue Cookson Hi Lindsay, I had ultrasounds on the day of birth of my last two babies,
I was overdue both times and had to see Obstetrician. These were my 4th
and 5th children. Number 4 he said would be large. At
least 9lbs. He was 7lb 3oz. Number 5, I think he was remembering
his previous error and said this was not a big baby. He was 9lb
1oz. I have little faith in USS. Keeping in mind that my twins were
also missed on USS and picked up on Abdo palp. Lindsay |
