Nikki wrote:
>When will people learn to stop trusting ultrasounds?
How many times have I heard this story about a 'huge baby' and have to induce and the baby is at least a pound, often more, lighter than the prediction. How can mothers trust breastfeeding when the machinery is what drives the delivery these days? <

My point exactly!
My first question was, *Why did they order an ultrasound in the first place?*
(Apparently, this is standard operating proceedure.)
My next question was, *If labour hasn't progressed despite the all these *augmentations,* perhaps the baby is telling us something?*

...sighhhhhhhhhhhhh...

From the moment I received that phone call about the ultrasound, I just knew she would end up with a C-section. One time when I wish I had been proved wrong :(  What chance does a first-time mother have when the medics tell her her baby is in danger? However well-read she may be - and Eliz had really done her homework - she feels vulnerable and scared. My son, who had grown up in a very pro-breastfeeding and natural-birthing aware household, also had bad feelings about the outcome, but like the rest of us he had to defer to Eliz's gut reactions. After the C-section, in the recovery room, he hugged me and cried for the birth that might have been. We kept reassuring both of them that if the outcome was a healthy mother and baby, then it was a successful birth. I am sure that she will spend some time working through the feelings engendered by her birthing experience, maybe starting by talking with other mothers at her LLL Group.

Norma Ritter
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