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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does the home birth have to do with the hospital waiting 2 hrs to give her the c-section?  Two totally different things. [/quote]

If she was in the hospital in the first place, the operating room could have been prepped faster. The staff would have been ready for her.

You take these risks when you attempt home birth. Why would anyone want to do a home birth?!?!?[/quote]

Sorry. No. Her midwife was responsible and sent her to the hospital the minute the birth was no longer a safe. If you arrive in an ambulance, the hospital needs to be able offer you care, otherwise what’s the point?

I’ve had all my children in a hospital (as planned) and I think if they couldn’t offer emergency care including emergency C-section surgery they gave no business calling themselves a level 1 trauma center.

BTW even if you plan to give birth in a hospital a very uncomplicated natural birth can turn into an emergency very quickly. I would be very upset if the hospital made me wait 2 hours for an emergency C-section. [/quote]

The hospital is saying that, when she arrived, it didn't seem emergent.  And that the birth injury had already occurred before she arrived at the hospital.

Whether she had waited 5 minutes or 2 hours for the c-section, the hospital is saying it would not have mattered.  The first trial did not address the question.  The second trial may.  [/quote]

The hospital probably monitored her from the get go and never saw any issues with the heart rate, fetal movement, etc and nothing unusual happened during the c-section birth.  Since the baby did not appear to be in any distress once they arrived at the hospital, whatever happened must have happened before they arrived at the hospital.  Given that something sent them to the hospital in the first place - whatever happened must have happened at home and it must have been worrisome enough for the midwife to send the mother to the hospital.  By the time the mother got to the hospital whatever had gone wrong had resolved itself and the baby was no longer in distress.  Had the mother been at the hospital when the baby went into to distress an emergency c-section would have been performed in time to save the baby injury.  Unfortunately, that was not the case.[/quote]

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