Re: intravaginal lost and found

From: Freda Seddon (fseddon@interlog.com)
Sun Aug 22 21:54:33 1999


I had an unusual experience as a student midwife. A fellow student and I went to do a routine home postpartum visit for a woman who had care at one of the very expensive private hospitals in London, sometimes used for "royal" births.

The woman complained of a foul odour with her lochia, BTW she had an elective section for breech. When I was viewing her perineum prepatory to performing a vaginal swab, I noticed a creamy object. Using a flash light and a pair of tissue forceps I delivered a finger section of a surgical glove. Not just the tip but from the base of the glove

The cultures came back negative, but it made me wonder what had happened. We showed the woman what had been in her vagina and heard no more about it.

Freda

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Freda Seddon, RN, RM
Community Midwife
Midwifery Care Scarborough
2680 Lawrence Ave. East, Suite 211
Toronto, Ontario M1P 4Y4
(416) 757-4848 fax 757-1562




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