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hillary gorman
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:33:42 -0600,<bi...@scconsult.com> wrote:
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*I should have just stayed sitting when the doctor suggested that I watch
*my daughter being born. They never showed that video in our childbirth
*classes, and did not emphasize that a 10-lb baby is very likely not to
*have any other way out, no matter how hard you push.
Huh?
Oh come on. 10 lbs isn't that big. My cousin Andrew was born vaginally, at
13 some odd pounds he was already too big for the "newborn" sized diapers
at the hospital! Several friends of mind have had 10 pounders vaginally.
I was only 8.5 lbs, myself,lucky for my mom ;)
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In article <slrn6f18rn....@unix3.netaxs.com>, hil...@hillary.net
(hillary gorman) wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:33:42 -0600,<bi...@scconsult.com> wrote:
> *
> *I should have just stayed sitting when the doctor suggested that I watch
> *my daughter being born. They never showed that video in our childbirth
> *classes, and did not emphasize that a 10-lb baby is very likely not to
> *have any other way out, no matter how hard you push.
>
> Huh?
> Oh come on. 10 lbs isn't that big.
I suppose it's a matter of your frame of reference. In the frame of
reference of skull size and development (almost fully closed, and hence
not as malleable as most babies) vs. the available space in the pelvic
channel, it was way too big. This was not a case of not making the
effort.
(it's also well above 90th percentile, so objectively it IS pretty big...
7 years later she still is above that line. Tall, too. )
>My cousin Andrew was born vaginally, at
> 13 some odd pounds he was already too big for the "newborn" sized diapers
> at the hospital! Several friends of mind have had 10 pounders vaginally.
13 lbs makes me cringe...
I did say "very likely not," not "never."
I'm perfectly aware of it being done, but as our OB later admitted, the
number of emergency c-sections head way up over 9.5 lbs. Megan was also
not much like a typical newborn: she actually lifted her head and looked
at me in the operating room. I'm not kidding. We had a nice stock of
newborn stuff that never got touched because it was all too small.
>
> I was only 8.5 lbs, myself,lucky for my mom ;)
2 lbs. 2 oz. myself. Easy delivery, but obviously that wasn't the whole
story. I'm a lot bigger now.
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Svo mælti hillary gorman <hil...@hillary.net>:
# On Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:33:42 -0600,<bi...@scconsult.com> wrote:
# *
# *I should have just stayed sitting when the doctor suggested that I watch
# *my daughter being born. They never showed that video in our childbirth
# *classes, and did not emphasize that a 10-lb baby is very likely not to
# *have any other way out, no matter how hard you push.
#
# Huh?
# Oh come on. 10 lbs isn't that big. My cousin Andrew was born vaginally, at
# 13 some odd pounds he was already too big for the "newborn" sized diapers
# at the hospital! Several friends of mind have had 10 pounders vaginally.
I was the smallest of my mother's 4 children at around 4500 grams.
My younger sister was around 5500 grams. All children were born
vaginally with no complications after less than an hour of labour.
She had given up a career of becoming a fashion model to become
a mother and housewife (although now she's got an M.A. in arts
and is a floor manager for the State Broadcast TV).
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Abby Franquemont
In article <6cr3uo$c...@bonkers.taronga.com>,
Stephanie da Silva <ari...@taronga.com> wrote:
>In article <bill-22029...@sc1.scconsult.com>,
>Bill Stewart-Cole <bi...@scconsult.com> wrote:
>>In article <slrn6f18rn....@unix3.netaxs.com>, hil...@hillary.net
>>(hillary gorman) wrote:
>>
>>
>>reference of skull size and development (almost fully closed, and hence
>>not as malleable as most babies) vs. the available space in the pelvic
>>channel, it was way too big.
>
>to have a forceps delivery. She came out covered with bruises from
>spending 2 hours in the birth canal, and with a palsy in one arm
>from being pulled (it went away after a few days).
Aye... as our midwife was fond of pointing out, it's the size and
shape of the head, more than anything, which affects whether or not
a kid can be born vaginally. Erm, relative to the pelvic opening,
which is impossible to tell anything about for sure until you're at
the point of trying to squeeze a child through it. Our midwife kept
pointing out she'd seen six pound babies with heads bigger than some
babies weighing upwards of ten pounds.
Edward's head circumference was on the large side, and he was born so
fast it never got much "molding" which is to say, it never shaped and
smooshed in... so though there was room for him to come out, it caused
tearing. Fun fun. And he was just an average sized baby. But as Bill
notes, if the bones in the head aren't mobile... well.
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Brian L. Naylor
I found ari...@taronga.com droppings on my spool wot said:
>
>Alex was 7 lbs 15 oz and was too big for me, she got stuck. Had
>to have a forceps delivery. She came out covered with bruises from
>spending 2 hours in the birth canal, and with a palsy in one arm
>from being pulled (it went away after a few days).
I had that treatment as well, when I was born. I wound up with one
of the forceps doodads in my eye, which apparently accounts for my
lopsided vision (I hardly even use my left eye unless the right one's
closed.) My mother still gets mad about it sometimes.
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