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pulling baby out by your hands????From: Missie (upholder_of_birth@yahoo.com)Mon May 30 22:05:34 2005
I recieved this in my email. I was wondering what you all thought. This isn't my birth story, but I am a doula and I find this appalling. This was reported as the doctor's first day, and going solo. Mom was induced. He reached 4 fingers inside and pulled her open. That had to hurt so bad. He told her he had to do it so she wouldn't tear. He was really pulling her. I could see baby's head (and all that hair!) way before crowning. The way he was doing it I was really afraid she would tear from him pulling so much. She did fine with it though. She pushed him right out. I was really surprised at the ease she delivered him. She had no problems pushing and he came out nice and slow and easy. Good kid. :) About 10 seconds after his head was delivered the dr said ok lets get him out. He grabbed his head and pulled and pulled. I wanted to hit him upside the head. I was just standing there wide eyed. I coulnd't beleive he was doing that. I could see that baby's hand was tucked up under his jaw. The dr pulled and pulled. The nurses were even looking at him funny. I really wish I would have just been bold and yelled stop pulling on that baby! She wasn't even having a contraction. When his shoulders came out mom tore upwards and into her labia. I don't know how many stitches she got though. It didn't look like a big tear, but he was down there longer than I expected. Ok so baby is out now and I assume the worst is over. What damage can he possibly do now? He is holding baby (hasn't picked him up and showed him to megan at all) He grabs his clamps and I said no she wants to wait until it stops pulsing. He touches it says oh its fine and clamps right away. The nurses stopped and looked at him cause he agreed he would wait. He picked up baby and want to hand him to the nurse. She said uh doesn't mom want to hold her baby? He said I don't know does she? and i said yes give her her baby. But he doesn't allow skin to skin. He has the nurse cover mom's stomach with a blanket and wrap up her baby. The next thing he does makes my stomach turn. Seriously I got a stomach ache. He grabbed the cord and started pulling. My mouth dropped and I'm just staring. He is pulling and tugging and nothing is working so he puts his entire hand inside megan, grabs her placenta and starts pulling on that. Every time he got a peice out he would cut it off and reach back inside for more. He finally told her to push and she said she couldn't yet. A bit more pulling and then he tells her again she has to push cause he isn't getting it out. So she does and it comes out just fine. I was so scared thinking that the whole time that she was going to hemorage. Is this a common practice? Many of us feel this is all sorts of dangerous to mom and baby. Do you have any info showing the damage that could be done. This mom and her doula wants to complain about being treated this way. They feel very lucky mom and baby are actually ok, without huge amounts of bleeding for mom or neurological damage for the baby..
-- Missie
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