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beautiflaw
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So Mad for My Sister (A Rant)
beautiflaw
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So, my sister had her baby this morning. She's a teenager and doesn't know her rights but I was hoping things would go better for her. I feel so sad.
She went into labor yesterday morning and when she was checked they told her she was 3cm, 90% effaced, at -1 station. Instead of having her walk the halls to keep her labor going and dilate more, they immediately attached her to a fetal monitor, blood pressure doohickeys, and all that stuff. As soon as her paperwork for admission went through they broke her water, started pitocin, did the epidural, and an internal monitor. 12 hours later she was only at 6cm. At about 20 hours she was finally able to push. They told her if she went to 24 hours they would do a c-section! But it was their fault for needing a c-section because they broke her water! Anyway she got an infection from the internal monitoring and her water being broken too soon. She was put in IV antibiotics, and the baby was put on them too and placed under an oxygen hood for the whole day. He probably spent less than 30 mins of his first day with his mommy. Never even got a chance to nurse. She wants to BF soo bad and now he's been in the nursery with sugar water and formula and pacis. He's okay now and in the room with her, and her mom is with her and she is a BFing pro so I think that everything is okay now... but I hate that they got off to a rocky start.
I know it could have been worse but still.
She went into labor yesterday morning and when she was checked they told her she was 3cm, 90% effaced, at -1 station. Instead of having her walk the halls to keep her labor going and dilate more, they immediately attached her to a fetal monitor, blood pressure doohickeys, and all that stuff. As soon as her paperwork for admission went through they broke her water, started pitocin, did the epidural, and an internal monitor. 12 hours later she was only at 6cm. At about 20 hours she was finally able to push. They told her if she went to 24 hours they would do a c-section! But it was their fault for needing a c-section because they broke her water! Anyway she got an infection from the internal monitoring and her water being broken too soon. She was put in IV antibiotics, and the baby was put on them too and placed under an oxygen hood for the whole day. He probably spent less than 30 mins of his first day with his mommy. Never even got a chance to nurse. She wants to BF soo bad and now he's been in the nursery with sugar water and formula and pacis. He's okay now and in the room with her, and her mom is with her and she is a BFing pro so I think that everything is okay now... but I hate that they got off to a rocky start.
I know it could have been worse but still.
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Re: So Mad for My Sister (A Rant)
Engaged 10/2/1202
BFP (a lil quicker than expected) 12/7/2012
Married to my best friend 12/24/2012
Beautiful baby girl arrived 8/15/2013
BFP #2 3/13/2016
She was! She was in active labor but her contractions were just starting, so they were far apart and not too hard. Basically she'd gone in for a check up and she was a 2, almost a 3 and they told her to go ahead and go to the hospital because she'd probably start real labor later that day. By the time she arrived at the hospital she was in real labor and was at a 3. If they'd let her walk before putting her in the bed she could have had her baby probably 12 hours before she did. They kept having to take the baby from her to give him more antibiotics and put him in the warming thing because skin to skin wasn't helping to keep his temperature up.
He's home now and they say he's nursing well so there's that at least. He's fine now thank goodness.
Also, I didn't know this when I made my original post, but they cut her because the baby was trying to come out shoulder first. Instead of trying to shift him or tell her to stop pushing until he was in a better position they just cut her. I almost cried when she told me.
Of course, her same doctor told her that no one under 18 has ever carried a full term baby. (No one? Ever?) My sister delivered the day before her due date. Her doctor told her that young girls can't carry babies to term, and that girls/women with small hips need c-sections.
Engaged 10/2/1202
BFP (a lil quicker than expected) 12/7/2012
Married to my best friend 12/24/2012
Beautiful baby girl arrived 8/15/2013
BFP #2 3/13/2016
The context was that she estimated the baby's weight to be "too big" to be born full term. She also suggested that since my SIL is petite and the baby was large that she would need a c-section. The baby was fairly big, he was 9lbs even, but that's not unheard of but her doctor was acting like this baby was going to be like 15 lbs by 38 weeks or something and scared my SIL really bad.
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