I have noticed this trend in my own patients when I ask them about their births. At least once a week I have a new patient who tells me she was told the baby was "too big to fit through" and had to have a C-section. These poor women begin to wonder if maybe their breasts are inadequate,too.
When will this nonsense stop?
Mary Griffin Kellogg, MD, IBCLC
Breastfeeding Resources
Stratford, CT
>
> From: Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2005/07/12 Tue AM 07:26:06 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: open season on birth
>
> Dear Friends:
> In my hospital work this week, 8 out of 13 mothers had cesarean
> sections. There were several where the reasons were clear: mom was fully dilated,
> and baby got tangled in the cord; a mother was hypertensive and not responding
> to medication. Most were for reasons not truly medical. Such as the woman
> told by the doctor that her pelvis was 'too narrow'. She never even went into
> labor; this is akin to telling a flaccid man that he won't get big enough to
> make a woman pregnant! (Both the pelvis and the baby are shaped in labor to fit
> together, and almost always do, given time, patience, and loving support.)
> Some were for 'failed induction' or 'failure to progress'. One woman was
> told that her baby weighed over 10 pounds based on ultrasound; the baby was
> actually 8 pounds. I have never seen a cesarean section for 'macrosomia' be
> accurate; the women who are told that their babies are 'too big' are all
> scared to labor, have the surgery, and WHOOPS, the baby is 2 pounds smaller. There
> is no an apology from the doctor.
> None were exclusively breastfeeding as the baby went to the nursery for
> at least the first night. Others got bottles because 'there wasn't enough
> milk'.......funny how a baby that needs to feed more gets a bottle instead of a
> breast.
> Not one woman I saw this week went into labor spontaneously.
> Does no one read evidence? Does no one pay attention to FDA warnings
> about induction and vacuum? It would seem not.
> warmly,
> Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
> Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
> Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
> www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
>
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