Twinklestars, I am so sorry for what your family has gone through. We were very nearly in the same situation - my son's cord was wrapped around his neck twice and he was quite tangled. Pushing wasn't going so well for us as my contractions were quite short. My OB was fantastic, though - the only indication I had that anything was going wrong was "if you don't get him out with this contraction, we're giving you an episiotomy". I was really glad, in hindsight, that we'd gone with the scalp clip monitor. It just left him with a tiny little scab on his scalp for about a week. I've seen worse marks on babies after forceps deliveries or ventouse extractions.
wow that would of been scarey , i will defenlty go with the scalp monitor cause sounds like if there is something wrong thats the tool thats going to really pick up anything im so glad everything turned out ok for you in the end it does help to have a wonderful doctor too sounds like yours didnt panick& kept you carm & be able to deliver son things can go wrong so fast sometimes so defently be peace of mind there going to be watching my little girl closely!
Yep, my OB was absolutely wonderful with it all. She had to cut his cord before he was fully out, but DH wasn't too bothered about not getting to cut it after all. She was so calm about it all that the true reality of the situation didn't even occur to me until a few weeks later when I was talking to a friend about how my birth had gone.
Just remember that you won't be able to go straight to the scalp monitor, it's only useful once your waters have broken and you're partly dilated already. Mine went on at 5cm.
I was monitored for both my births for medical reasons. The first was straight forward but the second monitoring was on and off for 36 hours. I hated the external CTG monitoring as it would pick up everything and do stupid things like add my heartbeat and the bubs together and show HUGE spikes at the peak of a contraction.
I can't stand lying down during labour and felt like I had a leash on (only able to move short distances. Later on the dr and midwives realised that it just wasn't working for me and the information wasn't accurate either so I had the scalp clips attached. It took 4 contractions to get them onto bubs head and seriously I consider that the most painful part of my labour. Once on though I felt heaps more mobile and able to move without being bothered by so many cords and straps (just a little one around your leg to tape the cords coming from bubs head).
As I was going through transition (during a huge contraction) the scapl clips fell off. Just wanted to let you know is this is the time you are concerned about. We were back to square 1, not knowing how bub was doing and hoping that all was okay. Luckily it was only 10 mins til he arrived and all was fine.
Just know that they can come off (possibly due to not being inserted properly). Good luck
I had monitoring with Ds2 (scalp monitor) and I could move around with him.
When I had M in December, I also was monitored, basically from the start when I was induced, (I was also in the early stages of natural labour), my Ob was concerned because of low birth weight & aging placenta, so I had a scalp monitor put on bub. I was only allowed to move around if the midwife was in the room with me, the monitor was taken off so I could go to the toilet. I was asked to stay on the bed as much as possible, and if I needed to roll over, to have the midwife in the room with me. The Ob and midwife also suspected that bubs cord was around her neck, which was showing up on the monitor as dropping heart rate and there was discussion at the end (which I knew nothing about) whether to let me to continue or send me up for a c/sect to get her out safely. In the end, they let me continue, unlooped the cord and let DH deliver her.
My Ob was also watching the length of the cord attached to the scalp monitor to see progress of labour.
while I was waiting for a bed at the birthing suite i had to be monitored, took almost an hour to finally get a bed! but yeah, I was hooked on to the machine, after that i wasn't monitored only monitored as i was delivering my daughter.
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