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I'm no doctor, but this just sounds WRONG! Kim Kardashian related: open if you dare

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BigRedBall · 07/04/2015 18:46

"It's crazy because I had such an easy delivery, but right after you deliver the baby lives in this sac – the placenta – then you kind of give birth to that and it just kind of comes out. Mine went right back in me because it was stuck to a part of my uterus that it grew into," she explained.

The doctor put his arm in me to here. He had to scrape it off with his fingernails to get it off of my inner lining.

According to kim k, the baby lives in the placenta and hers grew legs and ran right back up inside Confused...not even going to poke fun at the fingernail shit. That's just completely unbelievable.

Makes me happy I gave birth to 3 children for free at the NHS rather than spend thousands in some celeb hospital like Kim k and risk getting fingernailed by a "doctor"....

(Disclaimer: I don't watch this shit, I just read the story on yahoo :))

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ahbollocks · 07/04/2015 18:48

Holy fucking crap

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BigRedBall · 07/04/2015 18:52

Holy fucking crap indeed!

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goathairs · 07/04/2015 18:52

Talk about over sharing! Is nothing sacred anymore with these so called 'celebs'?!

HicDraconis · 07/04/2015 18:53

Suspect that she had some form of abnormal placentation and had to have a manual removal of whatever piece of retained placenta was left behind. It's not uncommon.

Babies do grow in a sac, which is attached to the placenta. She's got slightly muddled with terminology there.

Fingernails - can certainly imagine some of my colleagues joking about "having to use my fingernails to scrape it off!" - they wear gloves and usually use surgical instruments designed for the job :)

LokiBear · 07/04/2015 18:53

My placenta had to be manually removed. Without going into detail.....her description of manual removal is pretty accurate.

chickenfuckingpox · 07/04/2015 18:54

Ok so i had a retained placenta with two out of my three kids i assume this is what she was talking about the doctor in the first one pulled it out by shoving her arm in there the second time it fell apart and they had to use sponges and metal things up there again the view was her entire arm was up there both times it was surgery and i wish they had knocked me out for it so i didnt have to see it Grin

capsium · 07/04/2015 18:55

Sounds a bit weird. But if she did not deliver her placenta, medical intervention would be used to remove it, somehow. Surgeons do use their hands. Sounds like she embellished somewhat though, he'd have gloves on and wouldn't be doing any finger nail scraping. She does make herself sound like a prize cow, doesn't she? I'm thinking of the James Herriot cliché.

chickenfuckingpox · 07/04/2015 18:55

Im cringing and crossing my legs remembering my operations

SoupDragon · 07/04/2015 18:58

Seriously? They stick their hand up and pull it out??

I always imagined some kind of surgical procedure!

capsium · 07/04/2015 18:58

^ or she of course. Sorry to any of the posters who had this done, for the prize cow comment. I must admit I felt like one myself, when attempting to use the electric breast pump! Grin

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BigRedBall · 07/04/2015 18:59

I know she's talking about retained placenta, but the way she has glorified it and talking about the placenta going right back up? Confused...and that the baby lives in a sac called a placenta? That's not confusing terminology.

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LokiBear · 07/04/2015 19:00

That was my experience, Soup. I couldn't gave the injection that they normally give due to my blood pressure. It was fine. I'd just birthed an almost 8 lb baby, the rest was easy.

alwaysstaytoolong · 07/04/2015 19:10

A friend of mine had a retained placenta and she did describe the Obstetrician having his hand in her uterus 'clawing' it out.

There's a limited window of opportunity to remove the placenta manually before the cervix closes so they do have to get in there quickly to pull it out (heaves).

Salmotrutta · 07/04/2015 19:13

I'm shuddering here...

ilovechristmas1 · 07/04/2015 19:13

i read it to,it's long be said that she dosent want to go through another pregnancy and will use a surrogate next time

if she still had some placenta in there she would of been very very ill along time ago,the women feeds on drama

this ridiculous execuse paves the way to use a surrgote

ilovechristmas1 · 07/04/2015 19:16

didnt she say in the article that this happend along time say 1yr after the birth

no way is that true

MyArksNotReady · 07/04/2015 19:17

I heard she can only have one more pregnant she can never carry another child. Drama drama.

sleepwhenidie · 07/04/2015 19:23

My placenta had to be manually removed after dc3 was born, I clearly remember the jokey Hmm conversation between the doctors about the one with the smallest hands doing it obviously I thought they were hilarious

VivaLeBeaver · 07/04/2015 19:27

Yep it happens.

As well as having a standard retained placenta you can get placenta accreta where the placenta attaches to the myometrium.

Standard removal method is Dr puts on a pair of elbow gauntlets and dives in. Worst case scenario if it's totally embedded it's a hysterectomy.

Though I did once know someone be sent home with their placenta in situ to be told it would disolve over the next few weeks. She kept having to come back for scans.

Dontunderstand01 · 07/04/2015 19:35

Yep, her general description is pretty accurate, just messed up terminology. I was prepped for surgery as my cervix had closed. I was adamant I didn't want to leave my newborn, and begged the consultant to try and remove it. 2 midwives held me down, and gave me gas and air. My poor DH's was crying his eyes out.
So yeah, fun!

chickenfuckingpox · 07/04/2015 19:38

has anyone read the comments attached to the article? someone describes her child as ugly what a foul human being

im no fan but these people are venomous

it sounds a bit weird what she is describing part of her placenta stayed there for ages? my surgery's were all done on the same day do they not check the placenta in america? in the UK they give it a good examination to make sure its all present (well they did with mine) isn't that normal?

TheFallenMadonna · 07/04/2015 19:38

My placenta was manually removed. It looked very.... veterinary....

ilovechristmas1 · 07/04/2015 19:41

thats the thing she said it happened along time after the birth,tha cant be rightt

EachandEveryone · 07/04/2015 19:44

Is this why she's been told she will need a surrogate next time? Are other women advised not to go through another pregnancy?

TeddyBee · 07/04/2015 19:46

The registrar manually removed a load of clots from my uterus after my forceps delivery. Certainly looked like he had his arm up to the elbow. And quite a bit of 'scraping'. Charming.