At the mercy of who you get...
Some of you may have heard me talk about a client of mine who was being booked in for a c/s at the RWH due to low lying placenta. It was quite low, it had moved up at 37 weeks but still not ideal. So she was booked in and went through the mental anguish and upset of not being able to have the birth she had planned. She'd had NO bleeding.
Anyways forward to yesterday. She sees an Ob on duty completely by chance (the dates were stuffed up or something but anyway, she got to see someone else) and he said, 'If you were my daughter I would not let her have a c/s. Your placenta is in a perfect position if there is a bleed, the head moving down will probably block the blood loss and a c/s would be more complicated having to cut through the placenta as quick as we can and get the baby out. You don't need one, I (as in he himself) will see you in a week and we can continue on care as normal.'
How f'd up is that? Completely at the mercy of who you see, women are. She's relieved of course... but it could have gone a completely different way and this woman would have had a much different path, and more challenging future births. See women don't know what to ask when they first get pregnant, so when they hit the end and get these challenges they take whatever as 'the word' but even doctors cant get their stories straight. Just goes to show you something when these professionals all have such different approaches, and that intervention isn't always the way birth has to go - you can get more opinions.
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like the doctor i saw at the hospital, who said it would be very hard for me to push out my BIG baby, just cause i am of small build... Well i did it with only gas and no tears!
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