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THIRD TIME POSTED -- Re: forceps removed after baby crowning?

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:26:57 -0500 (CDT)

Sorry to keep reposting this, but it doesn't seem like these should be such tough questions to answer, and I really would like to know. TIA.

At Mon, 5 Apr 1999, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: >
>I am curious about a technique my OB used during the delivery of my son,
>who was "stuck" at +1/+2 station and was brought down with forceps. All
>the forceps deliveries I had ever heard of involved pulling the baby all
>the way out. Instead the OB brought the baby under the symphysis pubis
>to a near-crowning position and then removed the forceps. My son was
>then born over the next three or so contractions, I think two for the
>head and one for the body. (Obviously this was not a big emergency -- I
>assume he would have brought the baby out ASAP if there had been fetal
>distress.)
>
>1) Does this technique have a name?
>2) How commonly is it used?
>3) What is the point of it?

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