OBEM - 08/02

[hermionestranger]

No one else?

Was just thinking let her get up... Go with gravity surely?

Am I the only person that would rather a C section rather than forceps?
They seem to threaten them a lot on this program, I always (irrationally) want to shout RUN at them.

PMSL at "aww I know luv" bet she is having flashbacks.

Forceps in theatre?

I'd go for CS at this point. Epi already in.

they'd want her in theatre for forceps in case it doesn't work and they have to go for a c/s. she's on synto then - that'll explain the cannula.

Mrs devere i meant the veiled comment about 'corridor'

Sometimes they are too quick to intervene. Let nature take its course

Dont hold your breath though AmberLeaf eh?

she looks big

No allnight , I would choose a CS too

Strandedbear dont think it will happen!

MrsD I thought that too re his EXW! that may have stung a bit!

Ah right. I had forceps in the delivery room.

my dd1 was 6 weeks of being 18 wen she had ds.1 baby due july she will be just over 20 ,shes a good mum nice bf etc cant wait

I didn't go to theatre for forceps...they had the doors open ready for me to go for a CS but then Doc decided DS had to come out NOW...hence the forceps.

why are they always laying down!

they've obviously edited a lot out as we seemed to go from her being admitted, to pushing, with nothing in between! Hope for her sake they just get on and help that baby out now.

is she the Shoulder Dystosia lady? That was me 3.5 years ago.

It actually feels quite scary to watch it as I was so out of it that i dont really remember much of what happened at the time. Poor DH does and has some horrid memories... but lots of lovely ones too. :)

I wont Ruby !

Hells, how you know she's on synto?

You alright working?

I was taken down the corridor (theatre) for a ventouse attempt. One, because it gave me access to a spinal and two, they knew there was a problem with the baby not descending and were preparing for needing to do more than ventouse iyswim. As it was, dd's heart stopped during the manual rotation attempt (after the ventouse) and they could go straight to emcs, possibly saving dd's life. I know now I have a twist in my pelvis and can't birth vaginally. There was a reason why she wasn't descending and theatre was a very good precaution.

I also had PROM with both dc and speculum examinations up to the point of being in theatre.

actually was just thinking thank god they do intervene - women like that one with the baby's head not coming down, and like me with dc1, would have died in childbirth hundreds of years ago.

depends - if head's really low they might do it in the room, or if it's a real emergency. normally try to get you into theatre though, just in case.

I once read a terrifying story about forceps, think it's given me a full on phobia. To be fair, it was in the Daily Fail, but still.

When I had forceps with DS it wasn't exactly the nicest experience but it wasn't horrendous (was probably worse after he was born and I bled a lot and was sewn up in theatre for a couple of hours. But the forceps were OK. And so was he).