My OB said What?!?

Jerk!

What I want to know is did this Dr do the c-sections and if not how does he know she was stitched up so poorly that she'd "blow". What a creep.

I wasn't put off by this question. While it could've been worded more politely, it's innocent IMHO.

What awful wording. I would have been horrified and extremely upset and confused if a medical practitioner had said this to me after my first was born. I have a very, very bad episomotomy and tear, and had never heard of a fistula. I don't think most laywomen have.

not cool, somebody would have to die

Yeah- my OB when I was having twins commented that I had a couple of marks that looked like the playboy bunny symbol. I wasn't 1offended at the comment but when he called in his NP I was

Wonder how they explain a lotus birth??? Those cords are NEVER clamped. I don't recall any news stories about sudden deaths from babies getting too much blood...

While none of my kids ended up jaundiced, the first three were all rather yellow for a while. My last was so normal colored they never bothered to stick him for bili levels. OH and he was the first to have a normal belly button. The elders all have umbilical hernias. Go ahead and guess which one we delayed clamping (I demanded it with the ... See Moreothers and had my "requests" ignored). OH and the Dr on call said she would have to cut it if the baby was depressed at birth so they could ressusitate him, I told her that if he's depressed he needs his own oxygenated blood more then ever. Luckily she didn't argue with logic :).

I haven't seen one needed but once in 200 births...But have seen many done unnecessarily for the Dr. convenience. OUCH!

When did he go to school? Before 1980?

No, I wouldn't tell a pilot how to fly a plane, so on that note, Dr, get our of my way and let me give birth!

I sure as heck wouldn't let him fly it where I'm not going!

i have to de-fan this page cuz it pisses me off too much to hear these things, i have heard some aweful things myself- like an OB say "Wat does it mean to have the cord around the neck?, that the baby wants the dad to buy the mom pearls" literally2 secs after the birth.

this made me gasp

Angela lol lol

Yes to Women's choice and voice and no to the MD's attitude towards their own opinions. Though I would nor want an OB catching a baby that they did not have training to back up. We need to retrain them to understand the maternal instinct. N

Lol.....too funny

Yes, because we all know no baby has ever been born without a Dr. present....??

I was told tht, just told hubs, get down there and get ready, the baby is on his schedual!

Do they starve accident victims who need emergency surgery too?

That's kind of funny seeing as I DID eat a cheeseburger on my way to the hospital with my third baby lol!

"what?" is right! I cannot believe someone would say that. I had 5 miscarriages, and thank God none of them were THAT insensitive

With my third stillborn I had Kaiser insurance and their protocol prohibited the ultrasound tech to show me the ultrasound screen. She had to show the radiologist who called the doc who called me. She wouldn't show me anything at all and I was feeling movement so I didn't really think the baby had died. For a week the NP and nurses called me to ... See Moreschedule a D&C and no matter how much I told them that I didn't think the baby had died they just acted like I should have a D&C anyway. It felt like they were trying to kill my baby- the whole ultrasound was a fiasco. Where do they get this training anyway?

what about slowing labor, leading to increased incidence of instrumented labors and C-sections, maternal fever causing separation of mother and infant, drop in blood pressure requiring huge amounts of IV fluids, causing leg and breast swelling, affecting the infant's ability to suck? I guess those are nothing :-( Necessary at times, yes. Nothing? Definitely not!

No one ever mentions the risk of fever. I wonder how many babies are getting septic work-ups. What does that add to the cost of care?

Crunchy and so proud of it ;)

i'm not at all "crunchy" but i dont understand why its such a big deal that others are... if thats what they chose then thats their choice.