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I just got done talking to a mom who had a totally spontanious birth totally did not know she was pregnant. Super light pains did not realize she was having a baby til head appeared on the toilet the called 911 and the baby was delivered and of course the operator told them to get shoe laces:( and tye off the cord by the time the emts arrived the baby was blue. SO frustrating everytime I see the news and the 911 told them to take a nasty shoe lace and unclean sizzors and clamp and cut the cord severing the only life line these baby have makes me want to
scream:( I now tell all my bradley moms to just not let any one cut the cord till the placenta is delivered. That way they cannot take the baby away from the mom and the cord was not cut to early. People still belive if the cord is not cut right away all the blood with rush out of the baby and back into the placenta. If that was the way vains and arteries work we would all die every time we stand up:P Sorry long post this is just a pet peeve of mine right now;)
mindy b: TRUE!
my last baby was a homebirth here in the uk. my midwife told me catagorically, before the baby was due, that if i went into labour and the baby arrived very quickly, before a midwife could get there, then the most important thing to do was to keep the baby to the breast and keep it warm. she said ‘do not worry about the cord, that can wait’. i also have friends in france who have loutus births, where there is no cord cutting to be done, premature or otherwise. i don’t get how backward the ‘authorities’ are in the good ol’ us of a. far from perfect here, but really?!
Here in the UK I had a wonderful home waterbirth in September with baby number three. She didn’t breathe straight away when she came out of the water and the midwives were very keen to whisk her away from me to cut the cord immediately! I told them not to panic, stayed firmly put in the water and after a little bit of rubbing and cuddling and talking she breathed in her own good time shortly after. IMO that is what the cord is for, I had no worries about her being oxygen deprived with the cord still attached to the wonderful placenta!
Great cartoon!
Oh,Heather…did you see the live c-section on the Today Show yesterday? They whisked that baby right out of the womb and *snip* , cut the cord just like that. Baby was in the isolette (which caused great distress to me) , news “commentator” (well, what else do you call her? ) explained that abby needed to be in isolette to monitor for breathing difficulties. I’m yelling at the screen, “Well, don’t cut the damn cord so fast,dummies!”
Anyone have pics of their chord cutting so I can show my daughter?
I had intended on a lotus birth with my second daughter – who was born at home; it was beautiful! – but after discovering I had a vaginal cyst, it was decided to go to the hospital to get it removed. Since the hospital would not have like me transporting a placenta still attached, we decided to cut the cord, but by the time we had cut it, about two or more hours had passed anyway, so I feel that we delayed the cutting for a desired amount of time
this is sooooo true!
Both my two where born at home in the UK with fantastic NHS midwives.
With my son (2nd child) I remember that he was passed straight to me when he was born, still attached by the cord, and had started nursing before they decided to cut the cord (never one to pass up the opportunity of food!). This was done with my permission once we could all see that it was no longer pulsing. The placenta was born a few minutes later.
I don’t really remember what happened with my first, although I think it was similar.
Thanks!
Same here with my German birth. I had a low platelet count from HELLP so my bleeding was all weird. So they watched ME & the baby (with me holding & nursing her) for as long as they could stand it (closer to 10 minutes) before commenting on the bloodloss & how they needed to get the placenta out. (It abrupted to some degree after she’d crowned & nursing did the rest) Would probably not have been cut at THAT point but once the placenta was OUT it was kinda useless. (in that instance, not in all)
That today show “birth” just rubbed me the wrong way. I mean have you EVER seen a family more in NEED of nutrition counseling? Seriously I have some big babies but that LITTLE guy was FAT! No other word for it! At least the ob DID admit to her being able to deliver vaginally “in the future” with the type of incision but my god. I so totally hate the “we can fix anything” attitude that’s runnng rampant in the states right now! hello, we forgot about PREVENTION! See next day’s comic for more info, lol!
Nice toon heather!
http://www.waterbirth.net/testimonials/ Julie asked for a pict of the cord being cut you can see my pict from my last birth on the testimonial site where I had her this is the link. Kind of a wierd pict for a testimonial but this is one of my favorite pict something so powerful about it.
Sorry for the late post here, but I only stop by every couple of days. My mdwife is a bit of a med-wife (refused to deliver at my home and said I was too overweight to deliver at a birthing center… etc.), and I didn’t know all that was going on “down there” during the birth. My daughter was blue when I looked down to see her, and they whisked her away to the isolette- now I wonder if that is what happened, that if they would have just handed her to me, if she would have started breathing on her own just fine. Luckily she pinked up as soon as she hit the isolette (and screamed!) and they gave her to me after a little fussing. She stopped screaming when she was given to me, and sounded more like she was just testing out her voice.
Thanks for further education Heather. I’m not going back to that MW for my next birth, too much I was uncertain about.
Hi Shawn,
wow, you sound like me after my first birth, you start to think about things and it starts to dawn on you that it’s not quite right. I feel great relief that after using a med-wife I managed to have a ‘natural’ birth- she did come out of the ol’ wazoo. thankfully. So, I’m quite excited for you, there’s lots of fun and love as you travel down the path to a homebirth.
xox,
Heather
Thanks Mindy! That picture worked perfectly. Nice site too.