Fyreflie replied to hardworkinmama's topic in Ob/Gyn
Best: being labour support through a difficult labour and seeing the looks on the parents' faces when they realize it was all worth it. Worst: still births and situations in which the patient or...
Fyreflie replied to hardworkinmama's topic in Ob/Gyn
I've seen tons of side lying deliveries--I think it just depends on where you are. And I didn't see the OP as wanting to influence someone's choices, but rather as being worried that because she...
Fyreflie replied to hardworkinmama's topic in Ob/Gyn
I am passionate about low intervention birth and have used to passion to help the women I care for--by doing as much education as I can in each labour room, providing them with information and tools...
Fyreflie replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Ob/Gyn
Entonox now has special filters and can be controlled by the mother--but I think Entonox way back when may have leaked quite heavily into the surroundings and perhaps been inhaled a bit much by the...
We recover our own sections in a PARR room on the unit. We use a normal BP/SPO2 machine that can hook up to leads if necessary (3 lead only), if there are any concerns in the OR they go to the main...
Fyreflie replied to winter_green's topic in Ob/Gyn
I still, after 5 years, pay a lot of attention to delivery notes! Something like this: 1526: vacuum applied after bladder emptied by Dr. X. 1529: head delivered and vacuum removed. 1530: delivery...
Fyreflie replied to mommy2boysaz's topic in Ob/Gyn
Up here in Canada I've worked in three facilities with completely different rules. In the first, we had a medical directive not only to manipulate the rate within a set range, but also to give top ups...
Fyreflie replied to Leggings and Lattes's topic in Ob/Gyn
First hospital I worked at: 90% epi, 10% nothing (we didn't offer IV narcotics or entonox). 4000 deliveries/year. Second hospital: 60% epi for primes, 40% for multips, the rest IV fentanyl and/or gas,...
Seen lots! My sister was a double nuchal cord with a true knot. The most memorable one for me was a booked section--there was a true knot but it was a figure 8 knot!! We took pictures. It was bizarre...