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“Nurses will be in your room CONSTANTLY.”
Not really–there will be long stretches of not seeing anybody.
“You will get ZERO rest until baby is born.”
Yes–it’s called childbirth.
That said, a nice nap after the epidural is set up is just the thing to help a mommy rest up for the big event.
“Many hospitals prevent you from eating anything in case you have to have emergency surgery.”
Yes–aspirating food under general anesthesia can kill the mother.
“What they don’t tell you is that the “epi” will also slow your contractions and possibly stop them.”
The difference is not significant with contemporary doses. Here’s a post on the subject from a Canadian anesthesiologist.
theadequatemother.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/epidurals-and-progression-of-labour/
Also, it’s more tolerable to have a slightly longer painless labor than a slightly shorter excruciating labor.
“We also skip the “eye drops” since they are to treat gonorrhea. Do you have that STD? They started doing eye drops routinely because it was easier and cheaper than to test the mother to see if she had an STD.”
A lot of STDs are very quiet in the female carrier. Some women may be unaware that their husbands have not been perfectly faithful. Allowing a newborn baby to go blind is a heck of a thing to do to an innocent child just to show the doctors who is boss.
This sort of attitude about vaccines and standard hospital treatments for newborns and infants has been creating a public health nightmare.
"An investigation into the death of the girl - born in a regional Queensland hospital last year - heard that the mother, 30, wanted an entirely natural birth for her first baby.
"Ms Clements said in her findings: “As part of the birthing plan and, in accordance with her parents’ spiritual beliefs, the baby was not administered vitamin K after her birth, or any other medications.”
"The parents had made that decision despite being given information at an antenatal visit that newborn babies required vitamin K to prevent bleeding problems in the first few months after birth, the coroner said. She said the pregnancy was uneventful and the baby was born 10 days early in hospital.
"The baby was not given vitamin K - nor was she vaccinated for Hepatitis B - before the mother and baby went home a day after the birth. A month later, the mother noticed her baby had been sleeping a lot and was not feeding as much as usual.
"In the early hours of the next morning the mother saw the baby was limp and an ambulance was called.
"The baby was taken to the nearest hospital and then airlifted to Brisbane’s Mater Hospital, where a CT scan revealed the child had bleeding on the brain, the findings said.
"The baby was given plasma and vitamin K, but she died the next day.
“After an autopsy a pathologist concluded the cause of death was haemorrhages due to late onset vitamin K deficiency bleeding.”
couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/newborns-death-highlights-risk-of-not-having-vitamin-k/story-e6freoof-1226550664248
We shouldn’t be going a la carte with basic medical care for our babies.
Not really–there will be long stretches of not seeing anybody.
“You will get ZERO rest until baby is born.”
Yes–it’s called childbirth.
That said, a nice nap after the epidural is set up is just the thing to help a mommy rest up for the big event.
“Many hospitals prevent you from eating anything in case you have to have emergency surgery.”
Yes–aspirating food under general anesthesia can kill the mother.
“What they don’t tell you is that the “epi” will also slow your contractions and possibly stop them.”
The difference is not significant with contemporary doses. Here’s a post on the subject from a Canadian anesthesiologist.
theadequatemother.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/epidurals-and-progression-of-labour/
Also, it’s more tolerable to have a slightly longer painless labor than a slightly shorter excruciating labor.
“We also skip the “eye drops” since they are to treat gonorrhea. Do you have that STD? They started doing eye drops routinely because it was easier and cheaper than to test the mother to see if she had an STD.”
A lot of STDs are very quiet in the female carrier. Some women may be unaware that their husbands have not been perfectly faithful. Allowing a newborn baby to go blind is a heck of a thing to do to an innocent child just to show the doctors who is boss.
This sort of attitude about vaccines and standard hospital treatments for newborns and infants has been creating a public health nightmare.
"An investigation into the death of the girl - born in a regional Queensland hospital last year - heard that the mother, 30, wanted an entirely natural birth for her first baby.
"Ms Clements said in her findings: “As part of the birthing plan and, in accordance with her parents’ spiritual beliefs, the baby was not administered vitamin K after her birth, or any other medications.”
"The parents had made that decision despite being given information at an antenatal visit that newborn babies required vitamin K to prevent bleeding problems in the first few months after birth, the coroner said. She said the pregnancy was uneventful and the baby was born 10 days early in hospital.
"The baby was not given vitamin K - nor was she vaccinated for Hepatitis B - before the mother and baby went home a day after the birth. A month later, the mother noticed her baby had been sleeping a lot and was not feeding as much as usual.
"In the early hours of the next morning the mother saw the baby was limp and an ambulance was called.
"The baby was taken to the nearest hospital and then airlifted to Brisbane’s Mater Hospital, where a CT scan revealed the child had bleeding on the brain, the findings said.
"The baby was given plasma and vitamin K, but she died the next day.
“After an autopsy a pathologist concluded the cause of death was haemorrhages due to late onset vitamin K deficiency bleeding.”
couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/newborns-death-highlights-risk-of-not-having-vitamin-k/story-e6freoof-1226550664248
We shouldn’t be going a la carte with basic medical care for our babies.
