Re: Today was a GOOD day!
From: Meenan, Anna (annam@uic.edu)
Thu Feb 28 22:14:47 2008
Oops, I knew I forgot something. 8 lb 3 oz.
>So what was the birth weight after all that? Good for you.
>
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Anna
>Meenan, MD
>Sent: Friday, 29 February 2008 3:39 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Today was a GOOD day!
>
>The daughter of the medical assistant at the outreach clinic I used to
>staff was 41 weeks pregnant. Was brought in Saturday for induction and
>I was bummed because I don't work weekends and thought I would miss the
>delivery. Turned out baby was in transverse lie when she arrived and
>decision was made to section her. She waited and waited and waited, but
>one emergency after another came up and her elective section just kept
>getting pushed back. Finally they sent her home and told her to check
>in the office Monday for another section date. When she got to the
>office, she was vertex, so they scheduled her for induction last night
>(but with great trepidation because EFW on U/S was >4000g). She got
>Cervidil but after 8 hours she had some deep decels so they had to pull
>the cervidil early with minimal cervical change. Heart tones stabilized
>so the consultant said let her sit for a couple hours and he would
>decide what to do next. Everybody got busy again, and when we checked
>her after 3 hours, she had gone from 1 to 9! Hooray! Broke her bag and
>got her started pushing. Deep variables with pushing, but she was
>bringing it down almost to vacuum/forceps territory, so I went out to
>the desk to inform the consultant that we were going to put the vacuum
>on this possibly macrosomic baby. When i walked back into the room, she
>was crowning! Hooray! Two more pushes and the baby was out, without so
>much as a tear. 1 cm to baby in 4 hours, I got to be there after all,
>gave my friend the new grandma a big hug, and got out of there at noon.
>Hooray!
>Just had to share. Wish all days could be like today.
>
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