funniest reason i've ever heard for a c/s.

Re: funniest reason i've ever heard for a c/s.

• ryemo member

  January 2011

  I met a woman recently who was pregnant with her third. She was scheduled to be induced because she tends to have her babies early. I was like "seriously, this woman gets to have her babies come out her vagina and I had to have a CS?"

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• LurkieLoo member

  January 2011

  makclair:

  "the baby was going to be too long so they said I should have a c/s"

   

  Backstory- I lurk a lot on here- my home is more on the AP/working moms board, but anyway. I'm a pediatrician and CLC.

  So i had this mom today who was there for a newborn /initial visit. I was going through her records and asked if the baby was breech (since she had a primary c/s). She said no" they said the baby was going to be too long" . I thought i misunderstood her and asked her if she was in labor for a long time, and she said no, that they told her the baby was too long and so she scheduled a c/s. ???

  Fwiw, the baby was 20 inches and 6lbs 6 oz. Not sure how that is too long

   

  OMG there is a pedi in SC who is pro AP!!! I feel like I just go to my pedi so that I don't get reported to the bad parenting society or something... I ignore 90% of what they say- like supplementing with formula before my milk even came in, turning my kid forward facing when he hit 20lbs...

  

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• LurkieLoo member

  January 2011

  makclair:

  "the baby was going to be too long so they said I should have a c/s"

   

  Backstory- I lurk a lot on here- my home is more on the AP/working moms board, but anyway. I'm a pediatrician and CLC.

  So i had this mom today who was there for a newborn /initial visit. I was going through her records and asked if the baby was breech (since she had a primary c/s). She said no" they said the baby was going to be too long" . I thought i misunderstood her and asked her if she was in labor for a long time, and she said no, that they told her the baby was too long and so she scheduled a c/s. ???

  Fwiw, the baby was 20 inches and 6lbs 6 oz. Not sure how that is too long

  

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• LurkieLoo member

  January 2011

  makclair:

  "the baby was going to be too long so they said I should have a c/s"

   

  Backstory- I lurk a lot on here- my home is more on the AP/working moms board, but anyway. I'm a pediatrician and CLC.

  So i had this mom today who was there for a newborn /initial visit. I was going through her records and asked if the baby was breech (since she had a primary c/s). She said no" they said the baby was going to be too long" . I thought i misunderstood her and asked her if she was in labor for a long time, and she said no, that they told her the baby was too long and so she scheduled a c/s. ???

  Fwiw, the baby was 20 inches and 6lbs 6 oz. Not sure how that is too long

  

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• LurkieLoo member

  January 2011

  makclair:

  "the baby was going to be too long so they said I should have a c/s"

   

  Backstory- I lurk a lot on here- my home is more on the AP/working moms board, but anyway. I'm a pediatrician and CLC.

  So i had this mom today who was there for a newborn /initial visit. I was going through her records and asked if the baby was breech (since she had a primary c/s). She said no" they said the baby was going to be too long" . I thought i misunderstood her and asked her if she was in labor for a long time, and she said no, that they told her the baby was too long and so she scheduled a c/s. ???

  Fwiw, the baby was 20 inches and 6lbs 6 oz. Not sure how that is too long

   

  OMG there is a pedi in SC who is pro AP!!! I feel like I just go to my pedi so that I don't get reported to the bad parenting society or something... I ignore 90% of what they say- like supplementing with formula before my milk even came in, turning my kid forward facing when he hit 20lbs...

  

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• Brownie_222 member

  January 2011

  That is simply nuts! 

  

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• iris427 member

  January 2011

  How weird!  Have you ever heard of c-sections being scheduled in advance for OP position?  I've never heard of it but someone on the Natural Birth board said they were hearing that this was happening.

  
  

  
  

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• ShansBride

  January 2011

  iris427:

  How weird!  Have you ever heard of c-sections being scheduled in advance for OP position?  I've never heard of it but someone on the Natural Birth board said they were hearing that this was happening.

  How crazy!  I was just thinking this morning about how much better of babies would be if we didn't schedule c/s for things like positioning (even breech or transverse).  If the woman was allowed to go into labor and see if baby turned I wonder what it would do to our c/s rates and the health of our newborns. (this coming from a mama who scheduled a c/s at 38 weeks for a breech baby and after the section the OB said he looked like he was trying to turn and if we left him in for a couple more weeks he probably could have)

  

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• lorryfach

  January 2011

  That does seem a bit long for the weight, but wouldn't that be preferable in a vaginal delivery, to have the weight distributed in a long, skinny package? lol My girls were both long, but I wasn't thinking about that when I was in labor. I was thinking about my husband's huuuuuge head. LOL

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• papagena member

  January 2011

    *head desk*

  2 thoughts - I wonder if the c/s was 'reviewed for necessity' by those Dr.'s peers like they review every c/s where DS was born, and really, certain reasons for c/s should start to be grounds for some sort of malpractice/sanction.  That is just nuts.  "I'm sorry, mam, your child has 10 fingers, which may result in him clutching to your cervix on the way out - we suggest a c/s."  
  

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• madiegirl83

  January 2011

  papagena:

    *head desk*

  2 thoughts - I wonder if the c/s was 'reviewed for necessity' by those Dr.'s peers like they review every c/s where DS was born, and really, certain reasons for c/s should start to be grounds for some sort of malpractice/sanction.  That is just nuts.  "I'm sorry, mam, your child has 10 fingers, which may result in him clutching to your cervix on the way out - we suggest a c/s."  
  

   

  Hahaha... loved this!  

   

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• Lesley0228 member

  January 2011

  Seriously? DD was 22 inches and of the lame reasons I was told for ending up with a c section, this was not one of them. Of course, if my old OB had thought of it, she probably would have pulled it out.

  
  

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