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I just had this link forwarded to me from a natural/homebirth community I belong to. Its regarding a rather traumatic birth experience at MVH, and Dr Wood was the delivering physician. I believe some of you go to that group. In the original post the doc and hospital aren't mentioned but the OP does say on page 3 of the comments. Thought you might want to be aware. Things like this are what freak me out about wanting a natural birth again. Thoughts?
https://community.babycenter.com/post/a26520123/traumatic_delivery..
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Re: Miami Valley moms
That is downright AWFUL!
I am confused though why this freaks you out about wanting a natural birth. Natural birth did not cause any of this. Intervention did.
I find that story really hard to believe. No one would answer any of their questions or tell her what's going on? Really? Even after the baby was born? Not one nurse talked about after care for her incision etc? It sounds like the baby was in some kind of crisis, I guess I'd prefer them taking care of my child before making sure we followed my birth plan. Also, how does she not know the name of the MW that was taking care of her? That's totally fishy to me. It's easy enough to find out the names of the MW's in that practice.
She clearly has a lot of contempt for medical professionals, which I can understand if all of this really went down the way she describes.
I have to agree with Kristen here. It truly sounds like another person who planned out a detailed birth plan, and is now bitter that things went astray from her plan. Those bitter stories really rankle me. It is quite possible that she was talked to about the need for intervention, and she does not remember it. Many things can lead to her not remembering anything she was told. With as many people who are present for a c section, I find it very unlikely that anyone in the room would have been ok with a surgery that was verbally given non consent in their presence. Even if it meant fetal demise in the end. You have to stand back, take care of the mom and her wishes, even knowing the baby is dying. That is how it works. You can't override mom's wishes to save the baby. It is also odd that she says nothing at all about the gift of a healthy baby at the end of her "trauma". I am suspicious of that. That is all that truly matters in the end, despite birth plans gone awry.
FWIW, I had a crash c section. I do remember signing the consent and full disclosure of the procedure...but just barely. It was a flurry of activity, running down the hall with my bed, my BP was in the 60's, and I was puking every two minutes. It is all a fog, and I think I remember some of those things only because of having seen it from the other side at work many times. I can see how that period of time during birth can get completely lost in memory because of the sheer terror and concern for the baby. I didn't get the birth I wanted. Not at all. But I did get a healthy daughter, and I was alive to see her. That's all that mattered.
I see Dr. Wood at MVH and he does not have midwives in his practice, just a NP. So that part doesn't add up first off. And it really does just sound like someone bitter about not getting natural birth. I wanted a natural water birth, saw the same practice, and they were all for it. This did not go anywhere near as planned, but I was given fill opportunity for consent for all interventions, the doctors and nurses NEVER pushed anything on me and I went 24 hrs drug free and 10 hrs at 9cm (which I doubt many OB's would let you do, they'd push you to get pitocin to have you progress), and I had a c-section but was well informed and allowed to make decisions on my own.
I also think that when trying for natural birth and things don't go as planned, you are exhausted and you don't remember a lot of things. DH has told me things that I honestly do not remember ever happening. This really sounds like a case of bitterness about the birth, and being exhausted and not remembering things, and then blaming the attending OB for what happened.
ETA: I also talked to DR. Wood at my followup about VBAC. He said I could try but I would probably end up with the same result as before (which I know based on what they found during my c-section, I would have never delivered vaginally no matter how long I tried). So he is definitely not one to rush into c-section.