How long to wait for Madame Placenta??

[Elvish]

Just wondering how long your docs/midwives allow for the placenta to deliver...

...attended a staff mtg yesterday & found that our staff wants her out in 3-5 minutes! They of course help her out by hanging Pit & PULLING! :angryfire :trout:

No freaking wonder we have so many PPHs for retained frags/membranes! And I'm surprised we don't have more inversions.

I think this is ridiculous. What do your facilities do?

(I did of course bring up that the Pit would probably not be necessary if healthy babes were put to mom's breast immediately...preaching to the choir....)

[nitetimeobnurse]

I had a patient with retained placenta, went to or to remove it, got patient back to OB, and a couple hours later, she then had extreme cramping and bleeding, and passed what appeared to be the placenta, You gotta know the doctor didn't like that phone call.

[OzMW]

3-5 minutes! Bloody hell! Our policy says 1 hour. I have had 2 physiological third stages (which are few and far between) go about 2 hours, we got away with that because the docs were either busy or asleep!!! 3-5 minutes......BLOODY HELL...