Re: vasa praevia was home delivery

From: Alana A. Millman (midwife2be@lvcm.com)
Tue Oct 24 11:32:32 2000


At 10:07 AM 10/24/00 -0500, Paul Prior MD wrote: >I've saved one, myself. I'm sure others here can recount many "saves"
>where the baby would surely have died at
>home. The flip side is that there have been maternal deaths due to high
>spinals for unnecessary c-sections - it does go both ways.

Just to throw in my $.02 In addition to these experiences there are, of course, cases where a fast thinking midwife arranged a transport to a hospital and thereby averted a death. This applies to cases like cord prolapse etc. There are also cases like the surprise stillbirth I had in May where I don't believe it would have mattered where we were. The FHR sounded great all the way through her normal labor.

Alana

Birth is as safe as life gets.





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