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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm having a hard time figuring out which patient the report is talking about.

Is she the one who arrived at the hospital fully dilated and not progressing after pushing for hours?  If so, I don't understand why they didn't do an immediate c-section even though I doubt that it would have helped the baby.  That baby was injured during the home birth, there isn't much doubt about that.  I guess the question is, [b]did the hospital compound the injury by not doing the c-section right away?[/b]  I would need to understand the medical reasoning for them not doing that.  Was the patient refusing the c-section?  What was going on?

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In the nurse license suspension certification, it is Complaint #2 and Patient B and Baby B.

That is the question, yes.  And the hospital is saying that a c-section right away would not have helped Baby B.  From what I know of birth injuries, I don't disagree with them, but I'm not an expert or a doctor.  [/quote]

I think at that point the damage had been done to the baby, the baby's heart rate was stable when they arrived at the hospital.  I pretty sure that there is a reason why c-sections become dangerous after a baby is crowning but I don't know what that reason is.  Was the hospital trying to get the cervical swelling down so that the patient could continue to deliver the baby?  I would imagine that the poor little guy's head was significantly smooshed by the midwife trying to squeeze him out of there.  Doing an emergency c-section and forcibly pulling the baby's head back out of the birth canal could have risked further injury...

I think they were trying to get the swelling down so that delivery by c-section would be safer?  I wish the hospital would explain the reasoning for the delay.  It gives me the chills these parents and that midwife did what they did.  Now they are blaming the good people who tried their best to not make things even worse for them.[/quote]

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