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Cord snapped at birth?

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Mumof2x · 10/05/2010 15:01

Hiya,
I was just wondering if anyone has ever experianced this as I cant find much info about it online and my gps seem to keep tight lipped.

When I gave birth to my son it wasnt very nice

I went to hospital after my water broke and was having pains every 3mins. I was upset as I had to leave my daughter with grandma and I was all over the place. When I got there the midwife told me my waters hadnt gone (even tho the car was soked though and I hadnt weed myself) she told me 2 go home and cry into a box of tissues and not come bk till pains were every 2mins.

I got home got on the loo and needed to push. My mum called an ambulance and by the time i got to the hospital the pain was awful and less than a min apart. No time 4 pain relife n gas n air made me feel ill.
Anyway I told the midwife baby was coming and after 1 push my son was born........

There was blood everywhere and when I looked at the midwife she was coverd. I asked why there was so much blood and she told us the cord had snapped, she said she had never seen this b4 and rushed off to get changed and I had a different midwife to come in and take over.

Ive always wonderd how commen this is. I was told by the other midwife if Id have had him at home he would have died from this and I was also advised to wright a complaint about the 1st mw sending me home but really wasnt up 2 it.

Anyway sorry 4 going on but has anyone heard of this?? xxxxxxx

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sparkle12mar08 · 10/05/2010 18:01

Me!! My second son's cord snapped at his homebirth but luckily he was fine. He was stuck with a shoulder dystocia and it was probably the force of the final push to get him out that snapped the cord. We knew that it could only have happened at most seconds before he came out as he would have shown deteriorated apgars otherwise. So in our case he wouldn't have died and there was nothing related to being at home that wouldn't have happened in hospital, or that would have happened differently in hospital. Cord snapping is not common but does happen every now and again.

CarGirl · 10/05/2010 18:05

Happened to my SIL, she had actually just delivered when it went her cord was all thin and sort of withered. Apparantly the blood sprayed all over the ceiling and everywhere, when she had her 2nd dc all was fine. I think she had retained placenta too but I'm not 100% sure on that.

localmum · 10/05/2010 18:07

This happened to me. The cord was so tightly wound round ds's neck that it snapped as he came out. Thank goodness it did - he would have been in a very bad way if it hadn't. As it was his face was really swollen and bruised.

He had been breech, and very very active - he must have turned over so many times he got seriously tangled up!

Caro1302 · 11/05/2010 20:30

Me too. Mine was an emcs and I was told the cord was wrapped around his neck twice and snapped as he was delivered. There was probably a very reason why he didn't arrive via the natural route.

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