Craziest delivery stories

TrudyRN · Aug 1, 2007

years ago, i was working in heme/onc. we had a 6 months pregnant girl with leukemia -- she had been warned not to get pregnant, but didn't listen. :o she was in sad shape: infected, platelet count in the toilet. the baby wasn't moving so they did an us and found that the baby was dead. the plan was to transfer the patient to ob on monday and induce labor. this was sunday morning.
the patient was on a demerol drip for pain from her leukema, and the new grad i was working with had been turning up the demerol all night long for "abdominal pain." when i finally got a free moment to check her charting, i asked her "what kind of abdominal pain?" well, it seems that it came in waves, and her abdomen was rather rigid. holy $hit!
so i go tearing in their in whip up the sheet, and sure enough, the gal is crowning! she's totally out of it -- probably from the demerol. i sent the new grad to get the resident while i paged the nursing supervisor. (i knew nothing about ob then, and what little i thought i knew has totally evaporated since.) the new grad came back, saying the resident "wouldn't come." by this time, the supervisor was there, and she said, "ruby, just go get him."
i found the resident in the on call room, staring into space with his face twitching a bit. "come on," i told him. we need you.
"i ain't comin'," he said, reverting back to his south side of chicago speech patterns. "i don't know nuttin' about no babies. i ain't comin'. i don't know nuttin' about no babies"
not knowing anythng about babies myself, i wasn't particularly sympathetic. i took him by the arm and started leading him toward the patient room, all the while updating him on vital signs, platelet count, etc. just outside the room, he stopped suddenly and yelled "i ain't goin' in there! i don't know nuttin' 'bout no babies!" with a marked lack of sympathy for his antics, i yanked on his arm and said "you have to come. you're the doctor." right about that time, he -- the resident, i mean -- started to fall. he was having a grand mal seizure. i wasn't watching him -- i was trying to drag him into the patient's room. i dislocated his shoulder on the way down.
the patient squirted the baby out -- no problems. no bleeding at all, even with a platelet count of about 5. the supervisor caught the kid, reamed out the new grad, wrote out both incident reports and saw the resident admitted to the er. day shift started about 20 minutes later, and my head nurse came to speak to me about "why everything is such a mess here.:angryfire :angryfire :angryfire and when i came back to work that night, the resident was a patient on our unit. as i walked into his room at the start of the shift, there were five or six residents visiting him. "there she is," he said, pointing at me. "there's the ***** that dislocated my shoulder!"
that's the only time i ever had a patient give birth. but my best friend assures me that pavulon doesn't stop contractions . . . that's another story.

i'd like to take a swing at your boss. :angryfire:angryfire

what ever happened with the resident? did he sue you or were you prosecuted? i hope not. and i hope the new grad learned a valuable lesson and i hope that patient avoided future pregnancies. scary stuff. :angryfire

KR · Aug 1, 2007

so now when they say "I think its coming out..." I always ask if they feel something rubbing the inside of their legs? and frisk them like they are packing a gun...

OMG, LOL. The frisk them like they are packing a gun line is classic!! I love it.

tntrn, ASN, RN · Aug 1, 2007

This will have to go under the "eeeuuuu" category, but we had a dad put the babe to his own breast once many years ago. No kidding. Our very droll and not always so proper English nurse came out to give us that information. We took turns going in to "help" just to verify.

PeachyERNurse, BSN, RN · Aug 1, 2007

not really all that crazy but I was a phleb at a hospital and this girl had nipplerings on both breasts and said she was gonna breast feed but wouldn't take the rings out that the baby would just have to get used to them. I suggested that the baby may choke but that is as crazy as I have seen

:uhoh3: Very sad

Medic/Nurse, BSN, RN · Aug 2, 2007

Had one deliver in bed at home. Everything A-OK --- but,

the mattress hosted what looked like either:

A. A hog slaughter

or

B. A Manson family reunion (bad analogy but, keep an open mind)

===================================

Mom, babe and dad to the truck for the trip to the ED -

We told them that we would go back to their house (there was family there) and try a little clean up (yep, it was THAT bad).

They declined. "Dad" noted that

"We'll just flip the mattress over. No big deal."

Ewwwww! Can you imagine the smell! Can't wash that OUT!

:eek:

I loved being a public servant!

channiek · Aug 8, 2007

I had a few, but the most recent one was when a car stopped in front of the unit with family calling frantically. Naturally I went to have a look. The baby was allready crowning, so I delivered the baby in the car. It was cramped and dark but I did it without to much trouble. Wrapped the baby warm , put Mom on a gurney and took them up to L&D in fine form. My friends just laughed and shook their heads because it always happens to me!! :rotfl:

Neveranurseagain, RN · Oct 24, 2008

Had a weird one yrs.ago Woman, age 39, comes in full code by paramedics doing CPR. Woman full term per husband, due any day now. ER decides to send her to 2nd floor for crash C/S so they fly thru the ER, one of them riding the gurney doing compressions. Obvious full term belly on woman. An OB was there doing another delivery so they recruited him to C/S the woman. We waited for the phone call from upstairs to see if the baby was viable but they never called. Turns out the woman WAS NOT PREGNANT! She was an alcoholic that hide her ascites by telling everyone she was pregnant...

bjaeram · Oct 25, 2008

That totally reminds me of something we had. A woman comes in by helicopter after an auto accident. She is unconcious and not doing well. Medics said she looked full term pregnant. We had the whole crew ready. NICU, Neonatologist, OB who just happened to be nearby. Warmer, trauma tray, adrenaline rush, the whole works ready for a crash C-Section in the ER. The husband arrived just before the patient and kindly informed us she was not pregnant. Glad we figured that out before we started cutting!

rph3664 · Oct 26, 2008

I work with a woman whose dad is in his fourth marriage. Divorced twice, widowed once.

How was he widowed?

Paramedics arrived on the scene of a horrible car accident and heard a baby crying. Turns out his first wife was days from delivering their first child, and she was dead - her body was cut in half - and the baby fell out, totally uninjured, and was still attached to her and was crying in the wreckage.

:cry:

He was so distraught from all of this, he was unable to take care of the baby and gave custody to a relative. He did financially support the child and visit regularly; I do not know what kind of relationship my co-worker has with her half-sibling.