I'm a postpartum nurse and have a question about my friend's delivery over three years ago (it's been bothering me this whole time). I was working on the unit (cross training, fresh out of school) the day she had her baby.
She was electively induced and got an epidural early on. Dilated to ten pretty quickly. The nurse said she could feel the baby's head coming down and then going back up. Said the baby wouldn't fit through her pelvic bones. Never attempted to have her push at all.
They knew the baby was big per ultrasound. She had a c/sec at 5pm and delivered a nine lb baby.
I'm just wondering if she had been asked to push if it would have made any difference? Or if she hadn't had the epidural and could have squatted or something else for pushing? Or does what happened sound right to you?
My first baby never descended into my pelvis. My midwife said she was just floating there and that's why I wasn't dilated even with pitocin. She later told me my pelvis was too small for a lady partsl birth. I decided not to believe her. I vbac'd a baby 3 years later. Ran into the same problems - baby didn't want to descend and I didn't want to dilate. After a couple hours of semi-pushing in a squatting position, baby came down and out. She had a beautiful round head - someone even asked if she was a c-section! Second midwife actually theorized that my pelvis is too roomy. My babies have plenty of room to hang out up there without engaging and coming down.
rbytsdy
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My first baby never descended into my pelvis. My midwife said she was just floating there and that's why I wasn't dilated even with pitocin. She later told me my pelvis was too small for a lady partsl birth. I decided not to believe her. I vbac'd a baby 3 years later. Ran into the same problems - baby didn't want to descend and I didn't want to dilate. After a couple hours of semi-pushing in a squatting position, baby came down and out. She had a beautiful round head - someone even asked if she was a c-section! Second midwife actually theorized that my pelvis is too roomy. My babies have plenty of room to hang out up there without engaging and coming down.