Have you ever had a pt have sex...

[jarrn03]

Have you ever had a pt and her spouse have sex in their room "to get things going naturally"?

We had a couple come in that had had intercourse that am, stimulating contractions. Her cervix was changing but then stalled out around 7 CM. The mother to be's sister was gaurding the door. Her nurse went to go in to the room because the central monitoring was showing a decel. When she approached the room the sister stopped her and told her what was going on.

To make a long story short it sure enough stimulated contractions, her water broke and delivered precipidously and the nurse delivered as her doc was in the OR.

In our busy unit with all our experieced and long time nurses said it was a first for them. Would love to here if you have had a similar experience;

[evolvingrn, BSN, RN]

Why not do that before you come into labor and delivery...,..

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

What is so wrong with sex between two people who are in love and again performing the act for the sake of new life? Wow. Even if one is Catholic, this kind of sex is ok.....sex for procreation...sex for delivery! I think MORE hospitals and physicians ought to adopt these kind of old, tried and true methods. I think it is much more practical than all the drugs, suctions, and more inhumane ways we help to deliver babies these days. I say Yay!!!!!!

The responses have been hysterical!!!!!!

But, I agree with what someone said earlier.....when I was in labor if my husband even hinted at a desire:eek:

I would have cut it off!!!!!!!! just sayin... :)

[CT Pixie, BSN, RN]

7cm dilated..uhh yeah..NO thanks, the ONLY thing I was thinking about was getting something OUT of my body..not trying to shove something in..just saying.

I have to say, quite a few of my friends had OB's who suggested a little "lovin" in order to start labor. It worked for those who tried it. Can't say I've heard a doc recommend it IN the hospital to jump start a labor that's in progress by stalled.

[Sparrowhawk]

Meh I wouldn't be in the mood...and what does Catholic have to do with it?

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

What is so wrong with sex between two people who are in love and again performing the act for the sake of new life? Wow. Even if one is Catholic, this kind of sex is ok.....sex for procreation...sex for delivery! I think MORE hospitals and physicians ought to adopt these kind of old, tried and true methods. I think it is much more practical than all the drugs, suctions, and more inhumane ways we help to deliver babies these days. I say Yay!!!!!!

Understood, but i don't want to be exposed to it when I am at work.......

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

better than a c-section

There are other ways ms. granola!:lol2:

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

I don't think as a medical provider it's your place to judge a patient trying to do what is best healthwise for the mother and baby. It's a situation where you do what you need to do to avoid a possible c-section.

Not judging, but again, I don't want to have to run into a room for decels and witness the act or deal with the outcome......

How could someone even, uhm, grow and function in that circumstance is beyond me......

I don'y have any issue with sex, I only have a problem with other people having sex around me. Gag me!

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Also, a couple of you very intense and serious ones out there.....LIGHTEN up!

My gawd - it is funny and gross!:lol2::lol2:

[Mulan]

In my opinion, there are times and places that are inappropriate and being in the hospital is one of them.

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

Honestly, I never felt like it in labor either. But if, like someone else said, it saves a c/section, there are worse things that people could be doing. From a nurse perspective, if it jumpstarts a stalled labor (and why wouldn't it?), recovering/admitting a NSVD is a heck of a lot easier than the same for a c/section. And not that this is the primary concern, but it's cheaper, too.

[L&DRNC]

While I've never had it happen in L&D I've frequently heard midwives and even some of our doctors tell a husband to take his wife home and "show her how much you love her." However, having had 2 of my own, at that stage in pregnancy that would not be an expression of how much he loved me - last thing I wanted.

We do have a large high risk antepartum population at our facility and it is not uncommon for the MFMs to remind patients that they are not to have sex while hospitalized. Just this week we had a patient think her water broke and it was semen, she'd been on bedrest in our hospital for the last 3 weeks. They just don't get it, if your pregnancy is so risky that you're hospitalized, you shouldn't be doing that! Yuck!

[nightengalegoddess]

Sorry, Sparrowhawk, no religiocism intended. Guess all the years at a Catholic hospital made me think along those lines...and as a later poster mentioned....of course the high risk ladies are a different subject all together. But I must say, witnessing sex actually bothers me a lot less than dealing with C-Diff. Call me wierd.