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Originally Posted by Shades  Okay so it can obviously still need help - I think the point was more that it was silly to try and insist on a physiological third stage if the rest of the labour/birth has been fiddled with...
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Originally Posted by Shades Just some food for thought - the way I had it explained to me was that while physiological third stage is a great choice (delayed cord clamping etc) if you've had a completely natural birth, it can be a bit silly to insist on it if you've been induced/augmented/pumped full of artificial stuff because then your hormones are all stuffed around anyway and may not do what they're supposed to! |
That's how the
Ob explained it to me. I still pushed for it and was still contracting heaps to get it out after the synto was switched off. The pushy feeling didn't stop till it was out. The synto was only meant to give my body a little push in the right direction but the
Ob got called into a
CS and couldn't authorise switching the synto off for the MW, even though she said when I agreed to it giving me a little push in the right direction it could be switched off when I was making progress, so having signed the consent form was the quickest way to get it switched off. If I had bled too much it was still connected and would have been easy to switch back on if I needed it.