Re: Third Stage, how long?

From: Stmidwife@aol.com
Thu Jun 22 09:33:42 2006


Gail,

It would depend on bleeding, vitals, ect. I do not/can not use oxytocin out of the hospital excpet for postpartum and I do not have a theatre at homebirths (unless it is a really weathy person in LA and they have a screening room, LOL). Also I do not have a lot of room to be manipulating the placenta alot at home either since there is no surgery room/team available there. If you want to know the longest I have waited, it was 2 hours with a 7th baby where Mom refused to go to the hospital and said that her placentas always took this long. No bleeding, vitals fine, placenta came out when she voided, not a problem. That was about 8 years ago.

Sue

In a message dated 6/22/2006 12:11:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net writes:

> It depends on whether you use an oxytocic after the birth of the baby or
> not. If you give an oxytocic then the placenta is usually delivered by
> 10 mins although I have seen them take longer.
>
> How long would you wait until a woman was considered to have a retained
> placenta and subsequently taken to theatre for a MROP?
>
> Gail
>





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