Need Your help... Vaginal Delivery Management & "NOT pushing"

Thank you so much for all your replies...hope they keep coming...Again the reason for this post is to gain knowledge and experiences and information to explore what is being done with Pregnant SM and or CM patients. It is quite difficult and almost unfair to be "all or nothing"...you know...If you have a vaginal delivery your baby will be brain damaged or if you have a c-section it's more risky to mom b/c of the spinal and or general anesthesia (ie. puncture and increased risk of intracranial pressure) because at the moment .....we really do not know....and that is what I am try to figure out. I kind of feel, that as an advocate for myself, and others with this condition and a healthcare worker....there are too many pregnant woman being told contradicting information, and I really am afraid that they are becoming human guinea pigs.

I mean you have one specialist telling one girl "no probelm, epidural okay, no problem pushing, vaginal delivery is okay"......But in the other hand this is the same physician that is telling you never to strain during a bowel movement...no sit ups....you get where I am going....



Then you have another specialist telling other woman, "C-section, General Anesthesia", and about how one of his patients had SM..had her baby...had a vaginal delivery...deliverd healthy baby...but "as a result" of the vaginal delivery and her condition, she could no longer hold her baby...She lost neurological function of her arm...Scare Tactic or Fact?

I had surgeon who specializes in this condition say... "C-section....spinal is okay"...So what is the damn answer?


I do not like (anyone in general), but especially woman with precious angels in their bellies being thrown around worrying throughout their whole pregnancies with these conditions (adding to even more worry to an even anxious mommy, and this is not even considering if they have other high risk conditions), whether they are making the "correct", safest, decision for both mom and baby. I guess that is why they call it practicing medicine?

I had one physician tell a pregnant mom w/ SM and CM "Go research this condition"...Are you kidding me?

I am really passionate about Perinatal medicine, especially when it concerns these two Neuro conditions.

Can't tell you how much your insight and knowledge means to me...thank you and thank you for all you do!

Please keep your input coming...Negative or positive.

Take Care