2curlygirls

Just to clarify...I am NICU, we got the baby. Yes, they did use Cytotec from what I read in the delivery summary. Thanks for all your replies!

We had a uterine rupture this morning. Baby was severely compromised and mom ended up in ICU. Mom was a multip with a previous NSVD. It was a post-dates induction. I know uterine ruptures are pretty rare but can someone give me some insight here? How often does this happen?

Any doc at our facility who tried a circ with SweetEase alone would find him/herself out on their ear! Nurses would flat out refuse to assist!!! We, as adults, would not have genital (or any other) tissue removed without some form of anesthetic. Why on earth is this acceptable for babies???

I am apalled. If they're going to surgically remove healthy tissue, at least give them Lidocaine!!! How cruel!

I was! I ruptured in a spectacular fashion after a night of contraction every 5-7 minutes. After that, I went to the hospital and my contractions were 2 minutes apart! Got there and on exam I was "closed and firm". I had my daughter 16 hours and a bunch of pitocin later.

I watched one in nursing school. Horrible. Any future sons I have will be circ'ed over my dead cold body. Why would you want to surgically reduce the size of your son's member? BEcause it's cleaner??? Yeah, an open wound in a diaper full of poop is sure clean. Eyeroll. And let's not forget about the times we've had to call urology and surgery because the bleeding wouldn't stop. No thanks. My years of experience have just reenforced my opnion that circ'ing is unnecessary, painful and dangerous. Fortunately, we only have a 30% circ rate where I live.

Yes. But I can't imagine doing anything else!

I know in many states, including mine, Medicaid won't pay for it. I really don't know about private insurance companies.

Being a pregnant NICU nurse is hard! I remember feeling the same way! I had weird dreams that my daughter needed to be in the NICU and I figured it would only be natural that I would be her nurse. I also dreamed that I got to take her out for a few minutes and play with her, then put her back to gestate more. I'm sure everything will be fine. We just know too much!

I was thinking that maybe she thought that they were circ'ing the baby when they were actually putting in lines? It's the only thing I can think of that makes any sense.

I'm afraid to open this can of worms but.... I was on another forum and they were discussing circ'ing unstable babies. One person said her friend's baby was circ'ed while he was on a vent! This seems crazy to me! Please tell me this is not happening. I live and work in an area with a low circ rate to begin with so it totally boggles my mind. Do some doctors do this???

The answer to this question is *no* IME (personal and professional). So many of our NICU babies go home breastfeeding. MOst of them have had very interrupted breastfeeding experiences. I breastfed my first daughter for 11 months. She got one bottle at night, every night, so I could get a small break. Second daughter for 3 years. She had a pacifier 2nd DOL because she NEVER STOPPED NURSING!!! She never took one again, never took a bottle either (which made going back to work @ 6 months for 12 hours shifts really interesting)

In a pinch, yes. Ideally, no. I have to say, I've done it on quite a few occasions. My old unit (where I was trained) didn't seem to have much issue with doing it. But we also had really sick kids who tended to have all their other access ports occupied with drips and transfusions.

Malpractice??? That's a good one. I could say the same thing for those who fervently advocate for this unnecessary practice. I think you missed the fact that I just don't discuss it with our NICU parents. Most of them don't do it anyway so it's really a non issue. I don't need supporting evidence for that. I also don't need to back up the statement that an open wound in a diaper full of poo is a bad idea. Or the fact that a baby boy will most definitely have a much higher chance of morbidity with a circ than without one (intact memberes don't take days to heal) That's just common sense. Nor, do i need supporting evidence that the majority of the intact, developed world, DOES NOT HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT HEALTH ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE STATUS OF THEIR memberES and that they think we are nuts for routinely circumcising our boys (that's not scientific I admit, but it comes from my numerous British family members)