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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First wouldn't have been medically necessary if I had known a few things beforehand. After 24 hours of labor at home, I went into the hospital, labored for 40 hours. Dilated to 9.5, but baby was asynclitic, head was huge and stuck and unable to mould. In retrospect I had not been sitting properly during pregnancy and didn't recognize symptoms of long labor due to poor positioning. After 40 hours of labor, baby was tachycardic and we ended up with c section.

Second baby (attempted vbac) was emergency c/s due to decels and by emergency, I mean truly an emergency. General anesthesia, no time for an epidural, didn't even sign the consent form until after recovery. Total labor was two hours long, went from 6-10 in ten minutes in the hospital. Pushed for 15 in ER. Apgar score 4, baby went to NICU.

Both experiences sucked.

To the decel PP, as you know there are several different types of decel patterns, since the PPs don't specify, it's probably not fair to assume they were recoverable decels.[/quote]

Sitting?[/quote]

Not PP, but yes. Leaning back wiith legs up like Americans tend to do iis bad for positioning, especially OP babies. Check out Spinning Babies. [/quote]

Yes, it was only after the 1st that I was aware of Spinning Babies and it had not come out on any of my appointments with the midwifery practice I was with. My sister had almost the exact same labor and delivery with her first a year ago, but she lucked out in that one of the attending physicians (in the entire hospital) had been trained in Canada and knew how to reach in and turn an asynclitic baby after water had broken. I had no suck luck and during the second, forcepts would have been considered, but there was only one doctor that had experience using them at all and he wasn't on call. Second hadn't descended enough for vacuum when time was called. I agree with the OB poster that medical training has only provided doctors with one option.[/quote]

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