Anonymous wrote:one of the very few memories I have from my emergency c-section was the anesthesiologist repeatedly asking me if I could feel him touching my side. . . they will not cut into you until they know you can't feel it or are knocked out.

Not true in an emergency.

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Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section. Early on in the induction we started losing his heartbeat. They did a spinal.

Was the decrease in heart rate due to the induction?

Cord was wrapped around him. They expect the heart rate to go down when you're having a contraction and then go back up, and his didn't recover. We were only an hour into the induction and I was 0 cm dilated and wasn't feeling any contractions yet. The scariest part was that the doctor was very calm about telling me he wanted to do a c-section etc. and then what felt like 15 OR nurses came bursting into the room to take me to the OR. It was terrifying.

10 -29% of babies present with nuchal cords at birth. There is no reason whatsoever to c-section bases on nuchal cord. I delivered 2 large babies with nuchal x3 vaginally with no drugs.

This is a great example of fear-based maternal medicine, though.

He. My first had the cord wrapped three times around his neck. His heart rate dropped, and at one point I could tell one of the nurses was getting nervous. She alerted my OB that the heart rate had done something, and my Ob was cool as a cucumber. After three hours of pushing he was born, and they said oh that’s why his heart rate was dipping as well as when he passed under the pubic bone. I think that most OBs would have been scared of something happening and being sued, but she had a lot of experience and trusted her gut.

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Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section. Early on in the induction we started losing his heartbeat. They did a spinal.

Was the decrease in heart rate due to the induction?

Yes! 100%

But these crazy DCUMmers will try to fight you if you educate them on that. They'd rather prefer to believe their baby would have died without their EmErGeNcY c section.

Also true- if it's an actual emergency they will knock you out with general anesthesia. Otherwise, it's just an unplanned cesarean.

With respect, I think you’re blaming the victim here. Women are *told* their baby will die if they don’t have a c-section. Retrospectively of course they might realize a genuine emergency isn’t “you get to push for ten more minutes and then I’m going to commit assault with a deadly weapon” but in the moment? And, again, most people aren’t read up on the difference between emergency and unplanned— my sister first heard her c/section wasn’t an “emergency” when she moved and had her records transferred to a new OB. Also, feeling like you made a choice that saved your baby’s life is likely deeply comforting for women who experience serious complications following surgical delivery.

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Anonymous wrote:I had emergency, not planned or unplanned due to rupture.

One minute they were looking at the monitor the next I was waking up after my c/s.

They knocked me out via IV, intubated and cut. It took all of a few second and happened in the labor room not OR.

If you had an "emergency c/s" in OR or with a spinal it was an unplanned one.

So happy you and the baby survived. This is why I want to give birth in a hospital.

if caught in a hospital high chance of surviving. I talked to my dr all about it yesterday. They know how to quikcly handle these things.

So glad you and baby are ok pp. my mom was a L&D nurse, and she said the quickest she’d seen a mother go into distress to having baby out was under a minute. She said no epi, and they cut her navel to pubic bone right there in the labor room. It really traumatized me into almost not having kids. She said this mother had had many stillbirths, and she was just so happy to have a live baby. Shock must’ve kept her going. I would never do a honebirtj because of this. Too much to lose.

its rare for this to happen right? About to give birth soon and this is freaking me out! omg

The is the PP with the rupture -- sorry, didn't mean to freak people out. Baby and I were fine except for my PTSD which was nothing compared to my DH's PTSD. It was a spontaneous rupture of my third pregnancy. I was not induced but I did go from zero to 60 with contractions. We went straight to the hospital when they started since I thought I was dying. They didn't triage me since it was my 3rd and I went straight to labor room. It happened about 25 minutes after arrival. I did end up with large vertical scar and a hysterectomy. VERY very rare occurrence but have undying love for Georgetown L&D. The nurses were on top of it, the resident was on top of it, etc. I thought the baby may be in distress by the way they were watching the monitor, they said: let's go, and then I woke up after it all. They may have said something to me but I don't remember it.

one of the very few memories I have from my emergency c-section was the anesthesiologist repeatedly asking me if I could feel him touching my side. . . they will not cut into you until they know you can't feel it or are knocked out.

Had an actual emergency c-section with my first. I was already 7cm dilatated and had received an epidural before my water broke, which then sent everyone into distress. Baby was born within 10 minutes of water breaking on doctors orders. My epidural was left alone and they gave me other drugs via IV to make it through the c-section. Scary and unfortunately pretty hazy in hazy memory of my first birth.

Second child was born via planned c-section which was a much better experience for me.

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Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section. Early on in the induction we started losing his heartbeat. They did a spinal.

Was the decrease in heart rate due to the induction?

Cord was wrapped around him. They expect the heart rate to go down when you're having a contraction and then go back up, and his didn't recover. We were only an hour into the induction and I was 0 cm dilated and wasn't feeling any contractions yet. The scariest part was that the doctor was very calm about telling me he wanted to do a c-section etc. and then what felt like 15 OR nurses came bursting into the room to take me to the OR. It was terrifying.

10 -29% of babies present with nuchal cords at birth. There is no reason whatsoever to c-section bases on nuchal cord. I delivered 2 large babies with nuchal x3 vaginally with no drugs.

This is a great example of fear-based maternal medicine, though.

There is if the nuchal cord is putting the baby in distress. Just making such a blanket statement isn’t helpful.

My first DD was born with a tight nuchal cord. We had seen some decals during labor that, looking back on it, likely were due to the nuchal cord, but she was delivered vaginally before it became an issue. But, if the decals had been more alarming, it absolutely would have necessitated a c/s.

Decels, not decals. Autocorrect strikes again

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Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section. Early on in the induction we started losing his heartbeat. They did a spinal.

Was the decrease in heart rate due to the induction?

Cord was wrapped around him. They expect the heart rate to go down when you're having a contraction and then go back up, and his didn't recover. We were only an hour into the induction and I was 0 cm dilated and wasn't feeling any contractions yet. The scariest part was that the doctor was very calm about telling me he wanted to do a c-section etc. and then what felt like 15 OR nurses came bursting into the room to take me to the OR. It was terrifying.

10 -29% of babies present with nuchal cords at birth. There is no reason whatsoever to c-section bases on nuchal cord. I delivered 2 large babies with nuchal x3 vaginally with no drugs.

This is a great example of fear-based maternal medicine, though.

There is if the nuchal cord is putting the baby in distress. Just making such a blanket statement isn’t helpful.

My first DD was born with a tight nuchal cord. We had seen some decals during labor that, looking back on it, likely were due to the nuchal cord, but she was delivered vaginally before it became an issue. But, if the decals had been more alarming, it absolutely would have necessitated a c/s.

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Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section. Early on in the induction we started losing his heartbeat. They did a spinal.

Was the decrease in heart rate due to the induction?

Cord was wrapped around him. They expect the heart rate to go down when you're having a contraction and then go back up, and his didn't recover. We were only an hour into the induction and I was 0 cm dilated and wasn't feeling any contractions yet. The scariest part was that the doctor was very calm about telling me he wanted to do a c-section etc. and then what felt like 15 OR nurses came bursting into the room to take me to the OR. It was terrifying.

10 -29% of babies present with nuchal cords at birth. There is no reason whatsoever to c-section bases on nuchal cord. I delivered 2 large babies with nuchal x3 vaginally with no drugs.

This is a great example of fear-based maternal medicine, though.

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Anonymous wrote:I had an emergency C-section. Early on in the induction we started losing his heartbeat. They did a spinal.

Was the decrease in heart rate due to the induction?

Yes! 100%

But these crazy DCUMmers will try to fight you if you educate them on that. They'd rather prefer to believe their baby would have died without their EmErGeNcY c section.

Also true- if it's an actual emergency they will knock you out with general anesthesia. Otherwise, it's just an unplanned cesarean.

I had an emergency C section due to placental abruption w/ twins. I was given a spinal and was awake the entire time. My doctors (OB & anesthesiologist) were amazing & I am so thankful it was success.

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Anonymous wrote:They will either give you a spinal or they will give you general anesthesia. They will not operate on you unanesthetized if that is your worry?

They sometimes cut without anesthesia. I’ve seen it happen.

Me too..but very rarely... For a true emergency C-section. Usually they do have time to at least so general anesthesia.

Who are you people? Are you L&D nurses or doctors or doulas?

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Anonymous wrote:They will either give you a spinal or they will give you general anesthesia. They will not operate on you unanesthetized if that is your worry?

They sometimes cut without anesthesia. I’ve seen it happen.

DS was in a bad situation and I was told if I couldn't deliver him vaginally in 10 minutes, I would have an emergency C-section with no epidural or anesthesia. The emergency was that the baby had to be out of my body ASAP. I would survive without pain meds, he would not survive a minute longer. Luckily I was able to push him out. Still shocked and scared at the possibility of the different outcome. No one prepared me for that as a possibility.

If they had time to give you an additional 10 minutes, they had time to put you under.

Uh, yeah, I am also suspicious of that story.

Googling "c section without anesthesia" brings up some news stories, all about medical malpractice lawsuits. And most about "botched" spinals.
I think that tells you what you need to know about whether C-section-without anesthesia is something Doctors will do, even as a last resort.

They can administer general so fast. My baby was born in under 5 minutes from the time I entered the OR. They literally put me under as the doctor was getting ready to make the incision. Of course it did help I had been in the hospital for several days and already had an IV in.

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Anonymous wrote:They will either give you a spinal or they will give you general anesthesia. They will not operate on you unanesthetized if that is your worry?

They sometimes cut without anesthesia. I’ve seen it happen.

DS was in a bad situation and I was told if I couldn't deliver him vaginally in 10 minutes, I would have an emergency C-section with no epidural or anesthesia. The emergency was that the baby had to be out of my body ASAP. I would survive without pain meds, he would not survive a minute longer. Luckily I was able to push him out. Still shocked and scared at the possibility of the different outcome. No one prepared me for that as a possibility.

If they had time to give you an additional 10 minutes, they had time to put you under.

Ugh yeah WTH. You either misunderstood or that is the craziest set of options to give someone. ASAP is not 10 minutes. Thats plenty of time to do an epidural and certainly to do general. The midwife practice I used at a hospital said they could get baby out in about 2 minutes including administering general.