These Women Knew About This?

These comments have been copied from an article in aboutbirth.com:

My mom’s friend died after she gave birth actually. She was cesareaned because she can’t have a normal delivery. After a few weeks she died. We thought that she died because of infections or perhaps blood clots from her operation. But no, she actually died because a pair of scissors were discovered inside her stomach . I think it was left there during her operation. So it was more on a medical malpractice rather than infection from her cesarean.Comment by ced17 — September 1, 2006 @ 10:57 pm

I developed a massive abscess under my c-section incision and have been on antibiotics for 3 weeks. It had to be re-opened, drained and packed and it still is red and hot to the touch. I am scared of losing my fertility/uterus or of getting worse. This was a c-section after an attempted trial of vbac. My first child was an emergency section due to eclampsia. This time my water broke and I had 17 hours of labor with progress to only 1 cm and the doctor pushed me to a c-section. This doctor was hell-bent on sectioning me ever since she saw me in the office 3 days prior to my water breaking and said it didn’t look like I’d ever go into labor on my own (cervix high, not ripe)and she wanted me to schedule a section.
Then even when I did go into labor, she was a bit insistent on me getting an epidural when I was still only 1 cm dilated because the anesthesiologist was there and asking her if he could just do my epidural since he was already in the LDR area. I know it’s not a good idea prior to 3-4 cm dilation.
I even said that I’ve read an epidural can interfere with the progress of labor if you’re not dilated enough. She said that was just a myth. I should have said no, but I was already in pain, tired (8 hours of labor at that point), and she told me they would start Pitocin whether I took the epidural or not and the pain would only get worse. After accepting the epidural, the contractions got further apart despite the Pitocin and I never got into a regular pattern again. I should never have been pressured into doing something I know I didn’t want to do but sometimes the doctors get you when you’re tired and hurting and try to medicate your labor to speed things up to fit their schedules it seems. Anyway, they called me a “failure to progress” and the doctor got her wish to section me. Now I have a nasty infection. So I would say, don’t have a section on purpose because it is major surgery, it entails a painful recovery (infection or not), if you have other children it is hard to care for them (no driving for 3 weeks, no lifting anything heavier than your baby for 3 weeks, etc), and the risk of infection is higher than with a vaginal birth. Also, it is more difficult to breastfeed.

Administrator’s note. Failure to progress is the most common reason to send a laboring woman into surgery to have a C-section. The term means that the cervix does not dilate more than 2 cms. for more than 2 hours. Dilation is complete when the cervix is open 10 cms.
The greatest inhibitor of labor is fear. When a woman is afraid, of the pain, the hospital surroundings and staff, she enters into a flight or fight reaction. The central organs, the womb, shut down and all metabolic strength is sent to the appendages for running and fighting. The doctors do not have all day to baby sit this woman and they do not have the ability to council and empower her. They need their money and they do not want to hear a laboring woman scream and cry. They give her an epidural of synthetic opiates. She and the baby become numb and sluggish. They give her Pitocin (synthetic hormones) or better yet, Cytotec, an off label use drug given to stimulate labors.I could go on for a really long time about this Cytotec and the fact that it is to blame for fetal and maternal deaths, uterine ruptures and has a picture of a pregnant lady with an X mark on the bottle because it is extremely dangerous to give to pregnant ladies, but you can Google it yourself and you will then know. Then maybe you will teach your friends and family about this “wonder drug” before they go into a hospital to have a baby. Maybe. But I must move on.
This synthetic labor stimulant causes abnormally strong contractions. The woman freaks out, she cannot take it anymore, more opiates.
“Oh no” the nurses exclaim as they run for the doctor.
“The babies’ heart tones are dipping, there is oxygen deprivation, meconium, the baby is going into Fetal Distress.”
They rush her to the ER, she is given a general anesthetic. She is knocked out. Her baby is too. They cut her muscles, lift her bladder out of her abdominal cavity to get it out of the way. The uterus is cut open, there is alot of blood and fluid everywhere.
The surgeon reaches into the womb to grab the baby and pull it into the world; apart from it’s mother.
The baby is freaking out, for lack of a better term. This is a death; this is the stuff Post traumatic Stress Disorder comes from.
The baby knows nothing about what is going on except for the fact that this is not how it is supposed to be born. It is very afraid.
Babies know how to navigate through the birth canal. Their breathing and hearts are stimulated to function properly on the outside as air breathers. Excess fluid is expressed from their lungs as they journey through the birth canal.
Babies know how to be born.
I want to say this again, emergency procedures are for medical emergencies. Birthing is a normal, healthy, natural, physiological function.