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Re: 'Clanking the forceps' From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Mon Oct 16 13:14:42 2000 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: ginny lee BSN, GNM: "Re: 'Clanking the forceps'" Previous message: Susan James: "Re: list" In reply to: Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: 'Clanking the forceps'" Next in thread: ginny lee BSN, GNM: "Re: 'Clanking the forceps'" Dr. Michel Odent, author of Birth Reborn, has studied this phenomenon extensively. He calls it the Fetus Ejection Reflex. Triggered by fear, it's a necessary precursor to the "flight or fight" response. (If you have a baby inside you and are in the middle of labor, you have to get the baby out before you can "fight or flee"). My oldest child (ten pounds, 3-hour second stage) was a product of clanking forceps. -- Anna Meenan, MD, FAAFP At Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > >In message <200010161619.LAA30183@mail.medispecialty.com>, D. Ashley Hill, MD w >rites: > >> Or when I have a patient struggling at the tail end of labor, who >> suddenly becomes energized when I have her touch her baby's crowning >> head. Just holding up a vacuum cup and showing/explaining it to the >> patient is often enough to give her that extra "oomph" to push >> harder. > >The idea is do deliver a a health baby. Whatever it takes. Whatever... > >el Next message: ginny lee BSN, GNM: "Re: 'Clanking the forceps'" Previous message: Susan James: "Re: list" In reply to: Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: 'Clanking the forceps'" Next in thread: ginny lee BSN, GNM: "Re: 'Clanking the forceps'"

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