Reducing Infant Mortality
- 12-05-2010, 05:57 PM #9
I had my baby at 11am and didn't see him again until 10am the next day (I had an elective c section at week 40+3 when they found at week 40 that the baby hadn't had dropped), when I went to the nursery room to breastfeed him. He didn't have problem breastfeeding, and from what I saw, most of the babies at the nursery room were sucking without any problem (except for few ones).... So I don't really know about nipple confusion.
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- 12-05-2010, 06:03 PM #10Registered User
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I think if you watch the video they are not saying that interventions are a "bad thing" but that they are overused and in cases, such as yours, where you had complications, your interventions were medically feasible--there was a direct and important medical reason why they were being performed--they weren't performed for your convenience or because the doctor just thought the baby was "getting too big" or something like that. Actually, the doctors in this video all pointed to the huge medical benefits that technology has given us--such as ventilators and incubators that can keep our children alive and safe in an emergency. Not one person on this video said that there wasn't a real need for these things and most of the doctors praised the innovations in medical technology but brought up the issue that these interventions were never intended to be applied "willy nilly" (as one doctor put it). If you haven't taken time to watch the full video, I recommend it.
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- 12-05-2010, 06:11 PM #12Registered User
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In your case, your own body initiated labor--the doctor didn't go in and say, "Your baby is now done at 38 weeks so you need to be induced to get the baby out." I think that the problem is that many doctors are putting too much trust in numbers--actually, a baby is done when a baby is done--whether that's 38 weeks or 42 weeks or whenever. If a woman goes into labor before 36 weeks the baby will most definitely be treated as if he/she is premature but that's based on estimates as well--a baby born a 36 weeks (of the body's own accord--not induction) may very well, after investigation, be found to be "fully cooked."
Would you say that in your case you now feel that the interventions performed on you and your son were necessary at the time?
- 12-05-2010, 06:30 PM #13
I know people that had elective c sections because they were afraid of going into labor... They just didn't want to endure long hours of pain.
I chose c section mainly because of convenience, due to my insurance coverage. I could have scheduled induction at week 41, and the baby might have engaged during labor. Probably would have required other kind of interventions, like forceps, or may have ended in emergency c section. I didn't know... I was more concerned about the hospital bill rather than the baby, as I thought I was in good hands. So I went to c section directly since we have different coverage for vaginal delivery and for c section. If I had been in a public hospital, I would have gone for the induction for sure.
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My water started to break, but my body didn't go into labour naturally - that was the problem.I know another woman who recently told me that her waters started to break like mine, and she didn't go into labour until about a week later. She was not told 'urgently' to go to the hospital, as I was.
So they made me lie down, then after hours of nothing much happening, I finally agreed to the oxytocin. I pretty much knew that once I was forced to lie down, intervention after intervention would happen. They all did, like clockwork. Were they all necessary? Well, with my somewhat limited knowledge at that time, I also thought that the baby needs to come out within 24 hrs of your waters breaking. So after prolonging the oxytocin as much as I could, I pretty much let them do their work. I couldn't handle the contractions very well (3 at a time, 5 minutes long type thing, but not dilating me much), so I asked for the epidural, which then led to other interventions like a cathetor (Agh!!!!!!). At 22 hrs after my waters first breaking, and all the other stuff, and my baby not liking contractions with oxytocin, and my body not making them naturally, and a bunch of other stuff (and lots of pain!) I was quite fine when the doctor suggested the caesarian. So I think they did try everything they could before the end result, as my doctor knew I really wanted to avoid a c-section.
As far as interventions on my son, the bottle feeding was the only one. They proudly told me that he drank something like 60mls of milk, he was so hungry. After that, my colostrum wouldn't satisfy him and he would cry out for more and more. It's much easier to get milk from a bottle, than from a breast that hasn't made much milk yet. That's where the 'confusion' comes in, misnamed perhaps.
I would never plan a c-section for convenience, that I do know. My only reason to possibly plan this next one is out of the safety for me and my baby. Funny, since c-sections have a higher chance of complications, I know, but it's about how I feel about letting possible trainee doctors have me labour on unnecessarily and potentially dangerously, unbeknownst to them.
- 12-05-2010, 10:11 PM #15
I know that 38 weeks isn't considered pre-term, but when you add in that often the due date could be a week (or sometimes even two weeks) wrong, depending on when it is calculated and by what method, sometimes a baby supposedly born at 38 weeks is not as "fully developed" as he should be, PARTICULARLY when the labour was started artificially by induction or by C section.
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