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Re: Today was a GOOD day! From: R. Daniel Braun (rd.braun@gmail.com) Fri Feb 29 08:49:48 2008 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Meenan, Anna L.: "Re: Today was a GOOD day!" Previous message: Joe Cutchin: "Re: Today was a GOOD day!" In reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Today was a GOOD day!" Next in thread: Meenan, Anna L.: "Re: Today was a GOOD day!" Reply: Meenan, Anna L.: "Re: Today was a GOOD day!" Reply: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Today was a GOOD day!" And why did you break the BOW??? You already had decels earlier and now you take away the baby's protective mechanism???? Yes I know everyone FEELS that breaking the bag helps things along. BUT ALL of the STUDIES show that it does NOT!!!!!! Dan On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Anna Meenan, MD <annam@uic.edu> wrote: > 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. > -- R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG(L) ABMP CMTh Professor Emeritus Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology Indiana U. School of Medicine R. Daniel Braun "Science without Religion is LAME; Religion without Science is BLIND" Einstein 1941 Next message: Meenan, Anna L.: "Re: Today was a GOOD day!" Previous message: Joe Cutchin: "Re: Today was a GOOD day!" In reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Today was a GOOD day!" Next in thread: Meenan, Anna L.: "Re: Today was a GOOD day!" Reply: Meenan, Anna L.: "Re: Today was a GOOD day!" Reply: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Today was a GOOD day!"

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