holding a baby in after being fully dilated??

[court519]

My sister's friend just recently had a baby. Her friend was telling her about the delivery. My sister's friend said that she had fully dilated to 10 cm in 4 hours and her doctor was in a surgery at the time. A nurse went to tell the doctor and the doctor told the nurse to tell the patient to "hold the baby in" while he was finishing up the surgery. She had to hold the baby in for almost 2 hours to wait for the doctor!! When the baby was born, it had swallowed a lot of amniotic fluid and because of that, the baby was not able to hold any of it's formula down and the baby ended up losing 2 pounds within 3 days after being born. Then, the baby became jaundice and had to stay in the hospital for an extra 2 weeks. My sister's friend was furious because of this and her mom and mother in law were mad that the doctor had said to hold the baby in and the nurses thought that it was the wrong thing to do and they were also mad at the doctor for doing that. There was a resident doctor on the floor at the time but the other doctor would not let the resident deliver the baby.

My question is, do you think it is harmful for a woman to have to hold her baby in after she is dilated?? especially for two hours?? I thought that it sounded very dangerous.

[kmrmom42]

I would think that there would always be someone available to deliver a baby if the OB is not immediately available. At our hospital, the ER docs come in if our OBs are in an emergency.

Any L&D nurse worth her salt can deliver a baby that is determined to come regardless of who is in the room! That is part of the orientation process because we know that these things happen all the time. We try NOT to allow them to happen but, you know, those pesky babies don't read our policies or follow our procedures! :rotfl:

[kmrmom42]

I agree with BETSRN... please close it.

I love your avatar image! :redpinkhe

[baby&mommynurse]

Any L&D nurse worth her salt can deliver a baby that is determined to come regardless of who is in the room! That is part of the orientation process because we know that these things happen all the time. We try NOT to allow them to happen but, you know, those pesky babies don't read our policies or follow our procedures! :rotfl:

this is true... babies are born without the docs in the room all the time. ok, well. not all the time. but babies come when they want to come... not always when we want them to come. i still think this thread should be closed. we've pretty much established that there wasn't enough info in the OP's post.

btw, thanks kmrmom42 for the avitar compliment! :)