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Mar 13, 2008 03:17

This is gonna be short but I just want everyones advice.. When i had my daughter 16 months ago, I had a c-section... I had an epidural, but the causes for my c-section were..

i had a fever of 102.
my blood pressure dropped
amelies heart-rate was 210

Do you think the C-Section could have been prevented or was it really needed?

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hippydippymama March 13 2008, 11:57:23 UTC

Well... do you mind if I ask some more questions?

How far along were you?

Did you have the fever when you went into labor, or did it develop spontaneously?

How low was your BP?

How long/frequently did her heartrate get that high? Did a doctor confirm it by Dopplering? Sometimes a handheld Doppler will get a different result.

Had your water broken?

How long were you in labor for? How dilated/effaced were you?

What position was she in?

heartinme March 14 2008, 02:20:24 UTC

I was 40 weeks and 3 days!
It developed spontaneously..
I'm not sure what my BP was, I can't remember. :(
It would go high so that the machine would beep, then go normal, then high, then normal.. They put an internal monitor in..
My water broke right before I left for the hospital.
I was in labor for 13 hours when the sent me for a csection and I was dilated to a 7 and 100% effaced, -1 station, (i think)
She was head down, but idk what position.. they didn't check.

faeriesong March 13 2008, 12:21:29 UTC

I second the above comment. We would have to know more to have an opinion on something like that.

faeriesong March 13 2008, 12:21:57 UTC

Oh and how long before had you gotten the epidural?

chaos_in_action March 13 2008, 12:24:16 UTC

Going off of that information? It probably could have been prevented. Those things that you're describing can be side effects of the epidural. More information would really be needed, more like going over your medical records and whatnot. But just first glance? Thats my thought, that this was more the epidural.

Have you joined ICAN? Those ladies are awesome at that sort of thing. (Not to mention, you can learn a TON of things by being on the list!)

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whollydevoted March 13 2008, 13:29:12 UTC

Yep...that is what I was going to say. At the point you got the section it was most likely necessary. But, the reasons sound like a side effect from the epidural.

ppplmgwiw March 13 2008, 15:31:38 UTC

I would be really cautious of any answers you're going to get on LJ to a question like this. You haven't provided nearly enough information for anyone to be able to even guess the answer to your question. Moreover, even if you do provide more information we are still getting it out of context. You can certainly ask your doctor or another doctor this question--hopefully you'll have your chart from the hospital say so that that person will have all the recorded information and you can then also fill in anything you experienced that wasn't written down (which will probably be significant).

I'm not disputing LJ folks' knowledge--there are many women here who have enormous insight and information to offer. But I do think asking for definitive diagnoses/assessments via LJ is a black hole.

My question to you: do you think your c-section could have been prevented?

ppplmgwiw March 13 2008, 15:32:56 UTC

That should be hospital *stay, and you could also ask a midwife who you trust and respect--if you can get your medical records to share with her--if you are concerned about only getting the "party line" from a doctor.

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ppplmgwiw March 13 2008, 17:03:15 UTC

There are some situations with a very clear cut, "no, not necessary!" description, but most of the time it's more complicated than that. Obviously c-sections are overused so statistically, the chances are high that any given surgery might have been avoided with different management. But generalizations are only that, and "necessary" is a nebulous term anyway. To me, "necessary" is more than the idea that a fetus or mother was guaranteed to die without the surgery--that's the most extreme definition of necessary, but I think it there are other gradations before that extreme that also count.

It's so complicated, not least by the political disaster that is medicalized childbirth. I really believe the key is whether or not a woman is satisfied with her birth after being fully educated as to all her options and having all those options readily available. That is so rarely the case ( ... )