----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 8:02
PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Use of
ultrasound routinely to check for breech position!!!!!
I agree that there's no point in scanning at 36/40. But it is
happening (in Qld) and the women don't seem to be given any explanation
except 'just to check the baby's ok'. And it's not just a quick scan for
presentation, but the full thing.
And scans aren't foolproof. I remember a woman who was scanned
and thought to be having twins, the obstetric team flew in (country
hospital) and also scanned her and agreed that there were twins. At
the LUSCS a very large almost 11 pound single baby was born! More
recently in a tertiary centre a woman in labour at 28 weeks was thought to
be having twins. She had a LUSCS and again a single baby.
There has recently been some research results that indicate ultrasound
scanning in mice is causing to brain tumours. Doesn't look
good......
Cheers
Michelle
Lisa Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I would like to share my experience of this
over the past week.( with the permission of my client of
course)
I have a client who's baby was breech until
33/34 weeks after using natural therapies I felt that it had turned.
At 37+ weeks she felt huge movements then nothing for 2 days.
She went to the local hospital for a check over(It was a Saturday and she
didn't want to bother me so didn't ring until she was there). Baby
was fine but found to be breech confirmed on scan just quickly run over
her abdomen. After a huge discussion of all options she decided
she'd still birth at home but would like a cephalic version just to see if
that was possible. The Tuesday morning (now 38 weeks) I made an
appointment and off we went. When we were there she was palpated by
a hospital midwife and the obstetrician. Confirmed breech.
When the scan was put on her before the procedure the baby was
cephalic.
When I made the appointment the obstetrician
said to me, oh don't worry anyone could miss a breech assuming that I had
made a mistake. However What if the scanner over the weekend who
couldn't tell anything but that it was breech was mistaken (I wasn't there
so don't know!!)
Or what if some babies just move around right
up until the end. Either way there would have been no point scanning
her at 36 weeks.
Lisa Barrett,
Midwife
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