Re: OB: Fun and Games at 42w1d (long)
From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu)
Thu Oct 13 12:45:08 2005
Induction before 39 completed weeks in a healthy normal pregnancy? Based
on what evidence? El's right about too many interventions in this
country.
--
Anna Meenan, MD
P.S. I would be in the 1% that would refuse. But then, you knew that.
At Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:
>
>I know it is way beyond the curve, but I tell all my patients that I plan on
>inducing them during their 39th week. 99% agree
>
>--
>Richard Chudacoff, MD
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Dr
>Eberhard W Lisse
>Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:19 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Re: OB: Fun and Games at 42w1d (long)
>
>I had a very pleasant American couple in yesterday, planning to get
>pregnant, and I told them with a smile on my face that there will be no such
>nonsens as Birthing plan, Pizza and so on, (here they are supposed to get
>Oxytocin/Ergometrin on the anterior shoulder, but never ever get it until
>after the baby is out. I don't do Brandt-Andrews unless the placenta
>doesn't pitch up on its own.)
>
>They did however understand the concept of EBM
>
>On the other hand I wonder why this culture? Maybe there are too many
>interventions in the US, when I read the standing room induction story I
>wonder.
>
>> These people were far from reasonable, and when I have to cross this
>> bridge with a patient, it virtually is ALWAYS a CNM patient, and what
>> they say/how they respond seems scripted and cult like. Their faith
>> in G-d, natural childbith, self-control, the Bradley method, or
>> whatever is awfully strong
>
>And lastly if an Armenian doctor did any of this to a Turkish woman those
>two weirdos from the Bosporus would be up and shouting genocide again.
>
>greetings, el
>
