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I'd love to read her studies. Would she provide us with a link?
Babies who are delivered by C-section (elective or otherwise) are more likely to end up in the NICU than infants who are delivered lady partslly. But I believe it is inaccurate to say that the majority of C-section babies go to the NICU, unless this is a facility with an unusually high number of pre-term and complicated deliveries.
Our NICU team goes to every c-section, term or otherwise. If it's just a routine term section (repeat, failure to progress, breech) I'd say 90% of babies do perfectly. If we're dealing with a term meconium or a 35-36 weeker, I'd say about 50% come back to the NICU with us as these babies are more prone to TTN and we prefer to watch them in the NICU as opposed to the NBN.
Just my personal experience but after emergency C/S (did not progress further than 5cm in 21 hours after water broke) my full term dd was sent to NICU for observation while recovering from the drugs they filled me with-- epidural failed and I had to go general anesthesia, demerol, etc..... They said that they routinely send them in for obs if it was a long or overly traumatic birth.
2curlygirls
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Yesterday, I made the "claim" that the vast majority of C/S (scheduled or otherwise) babies go to the well baby nursery. I have been going to C/S for 4+years now and that is my experience. How about you? The C/S babies that DO end up in NICU are the chorio, mec, preemies etc. Very rarely the term C/S. The person I was talking to brought up studies to prove me wrong.
Is my experience unusual and therefore "invalid"? It is shared with everyone I work with BTW. What have you found in your practice?
-Curly
(1 day into maternity leave!!!)