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Confusing description of Actress' birth

Claire999999Claire999999
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This excerpt is from "Special Agent Scully: The Gillian Anderson Files", by Malcolm Butt.

On page 40 he describes the birth of her first child: "There was a large amount of blood being lost, and the screaming child appeared to be unable to break free. The masked experts standing around the woman were shaking their heads and watching, concerned. All manner of tubes and machines bleeped and surged in the cold, sterile room. This was no episode of the X-Files - this was Gillian Anderson's labour. Although the process had started normally, the baby's head proved too large to exit the pelvis so an emergency cesarean had to be performed. Gillian was doped up on Tylenol and codeine for the major surgery. Luckily, all went well and along came Piper Maru Anderson, weighing in at a healthy 8lb, 10oz, twelve days late."

The author (Mr. Butt) says that the gruesome details of the first paragraph were Gillian's labor, but it sounds to me like he was describing the c-section itself, not the labor that preceded it. If the baby's head was too large to fit through the pelvis, then obviously the baby couldn't have been screaming because she was still inside her mother, and he seems to be describing an operating room (sterile, cold, masked doctors, lots of blood) rather than a delivery room. What does it sound like to you guys? Do you think the author got his details mixed up (and perhaps embellished them) and his "screaming child unable to get free" description was the surgeon trying to pull the baby out through the abdominal incision, or do you think that Gillian had some sort of freak labor where the baby's head was already outside of her body and was screaming (which wouldn't make sense, since apparently her head was too big to go through the pelvic bones and if it was already out then they obviously would have been able to continue delivering her naturally) and they then had to perform a cesarean and drag the baby BACK through the birth canal and remove her through the abdomen? That would just be weird.

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  • pepomntpatpepomntpat member
    I'm sorry, Tylenol and Codeine for the surgery? This makes absolutely no sense. The guy has no idea what he is talking about.
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  • byrne15byrne15 member
    imageClaire999999:

    This excerpt is from "Special Agent Scully: The Gillian Anderson Files", by Malcolm Butt.

    On page 40 he describes the birth of her first child: "There was a large amount of blood being lost, and the screaming child appeared to be unable to break free. The masked experts standing around the woman were shaking their heads and watching, concerned. All manner of tubes and machines bleeped and surged in the cold, sterile room. This was no episode of the X-Files - this was Gillian Anderson's labour. Although the process had started normally, the baby's head proved too large to exit the pelvis so an emergency cesarean had to be performed. Gillian was doped up on Tylenol and codeine for the major surgery. Luckily, all went well and along came Piper Maru Anderson, weighing in at a healthy 8lb, 10oz, twelve days late."

    The author (Mr. Butt) says that the gruesome details of the first paragraph were Gillian's labor, but it sounds to me like he was describing the c-section itself, not the labor that preceded it. If the baby's head was too large to fit through the pelvis, then obviously the baby couldn't have been screaming because she was still inside her mother, and he seems to be describing an operating room (sterile, cold, masked doctors, lots of blood) rather than a delivery room. What does it sound like to you guys? Do you think the author got his details mixed up (and perhaps embellished them) and his "screaming child unable to get free" description was the surgeon trying to pull the baby out through the abdominal incision, or do you think that Gillian had some sort of freak labor where the baby's head was already outside of her body and was screaming (which wouldn't make sense, since apparently her head was too big to go through the pelvic bones and if it was already out then they obviously would have been able to continue delivering her naturally) and they then had to perform a cesarean and drag the baby BACK through the birth canal and remove her through the abdomen? That would just be weird.

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    Hmm

    i have no words.

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  • ryansmamaxoryansmamaxo
    Sometimes they do push a baby back up into the uterus to be able to perform a c/s, but never in any case would they do this if the babies head was already out. That would be absurd and I'm pretty positive impossible.
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  • clarks415clarks415 member
    This exactly. When my son's head got stuck, during the c/s my OB went in vaginally to push him up. I def think he was confused in his description.
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  • Claire999999Claire999999

    imageclarks415:
    This exactly. When my son's head got stuck, during the c/s my OB went in vaginally to push him up. I def think he was confused in his description.


    I'm kind of confused by your comment.  You said "This exactly" but then you concurred with me that you think the author was confused in his description, so do you think he was referring to the baby being partway out but the doctors having to pull her back in for the c section?

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  • Mrs_MBedMrs_MBed
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    imageclarks415:
    This exactly. When my son's head got stuck, during the c/s my OB went in vaginally to push him up. I def think he was confused in his description.


    I'm kind of confused by your comment.  You said "This exactly" but then you concurred with me that you think the author was confused in his description, so do you think he was referring to the baby being partway out but the doctors having to pull her back in for the c section?

    I was in the same situation with DD1 - her head was stuck in my pelvis, so before the c/s, the OB had to put his hand up my vagina and push her back up.  Her head was not already out.  I highly doubt that any doctor would push the baby back up once the head was already out - that is the hardest part to deliver.  I think this author has his story mixed up.  

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