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Did you deliver your placenta or was it pulled out?

newlywed26newlywed26
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just curious.  With my 1st, I delivered it with mild contractions.  With my 2nd, the dr automatically broke it down and pulled it out.......ouch!  That hurt like he$$!  Just curious why she wouldn't just allow me to push it out myself.
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Re: Did you deliver your placenta or was it pulled out?

  • amykins1283amykins1283 member
    After I delivered DS the doctor took the cord on her hand and told me that I was going to have to push while she used the cord to kind of guide it out.  Well, the minute she gave the gentlest pull the cord tore away from the placenta.  So, she had to reach all the way up inside me to reach it with her hand while the nurse pushed down on my abdomen.  THEN, the placenta started coming out in pieces so she had to spend 30 minutes rooting around in my uterus with her hand to make sure all the pieces were out.  It was worse than my delivery (and I pushed for 3 hours!) and the doctor kept apologizing to me over and over and going on about how she hates when this happens to her patients because it's so unpleasant for them.  I'm hoping things go a little more smoothly on round 2.

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  • lil_rhodylil_rhody member
    Delivered it.
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  • newlywed26newlywed26
    imageamykins1283:
    After I delivered DS the doctor took the cord on her hand and told me that I was going to have to push while she used the cord to kind of guide it out.  Well, the minute she gave the gentlest pull the cord tore away from the placenta.  So, she had to reach all the way up inside me to reach it with her hand while the nurse pushed down on my abdomen.  THEN, the placenta started coming out in pieces so she had to spend 30 minutes rooting around in my uterus with her hand to make sure all the pieces were out.  It was worse than my delivery (and I pushed for 3 hours!) and the doctor kept apologizing to me over and over and going on about how she hates when this happens to her patients because it's so unpleasant for them.  I'm hoping things go a little more smoothly on round 2.
    Oh ok.  That's probably what happened with me.  She kept pulling out pieces.  It looked broken up.  With my first it came out in seconds.
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  • thomas&lynnthomas&lynn member

    With my first, it was manually removed under a general because contrax, me pushing, and docs pushing and pulling would not remove it :( That sucked. Do you happen to know how long after you delivered your baby that the doc pulled it out? Because you continue bleeding until it's out and I know my MW started a clock on me and gave me 30mins to try to deliver it before going in for the surgery. And I was still anemic in my recover for all the blood loss (so much so that they offered a transfusion but we declined and promised to up my iron via diet).

    With my second, I was able to deliver it on my own with no further issues. And within like 5-10mins, too (yay, me!!!) :)

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  • newlywed26newlywed26
    imagethomas&lynn:

    With my first, it was manually removed under a general because contrax, me pushing, and docs pushing and pulling would not remove it :( That sucked. Do you happen to know how long after you delivered your baby that the doc pulled it out? Because you continue bleeding until it's out and I know my MW started a clock on me and gave me 30mins to try to deliver it before going in for the surgery. And I was still anemic in my recover for all the blood loss (so much so that they offered a transfusion but we declined and promised to up my iron via diet).

    With my second, I was able to deliver it on my own with no further issues. And within like 5-10mins, too (yay, me!!!) :)

    like right after or so it seemed.  hurt like he$$!
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  • avada_kedavraavada_kedavra
    i'm assuming he pulled it out cause i don't remember. i was far too focused on my little lady and bawling husband!
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  • epona3epona3 member
    Delivered it, and it didn't hurt at all.  I kind of expected it to hurt for some reason...  The m/w had a hand on the cord, and kind of helped it out, but I always thought they weren't supposed to forcibly pull it out (unless there is some other extenuating circumstance, of course...)
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  • wildfloweragainwildfloweragain member
    Doc and myself together pushing, pulling, one very big piece.  He called people in to see it because it was the biggest he'd ever seen.
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  • palmerampalmeram

    I delivered it, but it came out without me having to really push. It felt like a giant weight was lifted, surprising I didn't feel this way when the baby came out.

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  • Shandie_725Shandie_725 member
    I felt like I was going to throw up and when I coughed into the vomit bag, it came flying out...my poor OB was in the middle of stitching me. Thankfully it landed in the bucket it was supposed to go into!
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  • dzdevil79dzdevil79 member
    The doc did a weird push on my abdomen with a contraction and kinda pulled at the same time.   I was bleeding a lot so she said it had to come out ASAP.  I did not look, but my husband said it looked like a deflated balloon.
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