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Comments on: The Last Minute Doula: Preventing C-Sections 1 mom at a time https://www.dolphinmethod.com/the-last-minute-doula-preventing-c-sections-1-mom-at-a-time/ Creating Better Birth Experiences Wed, 30 Dec 2015 03:44:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Summer https://www.dolphinmethod.com/the-last-minute-doula-preventing-c-sections-1-mom-at-a-time/#comment-8515 Wed, 30 Dec 2015 03:44:50 +0000 http://www.jenniferwolfeyoga.com/blog/?p=170#comment-8515 In reply to Summer.

Just wanted to add that thinking back I am extremely disappointed in the doctor’s not trying to relieve my husband’s anxiety and also not trying or even mentioning any attempts to make my son turn. I wish I had been in Wales, where my husband is from, with a midwife, but that wasn’t an option this time.

]]> By: Summer https://www.dolphinmethod.com/the-last-minute-doula-preventing-c-sections-1-mom-at-a-time/#comment-8514 Wed, 30 Dec 2015 03:37:50 +0000 http://www.jenniferwolfeyoga.com/blog/?p=170#comment-8514 I have a 2 1/2-year-old son that was born LOT. My husband and I endured 33 hours of unprogressive labor, basically after not returning home as the doctor suggested. I also have an 11-year-old daughter that was born completely natural in only 8 hours, but this was my husband’s first experience and was paranoid. I regret trying to settle his fears instead of listening to my own gut and going home, and what’s to follow is why. Thirty-three hours in with walking, relaxing in a tub, sitting on a ball, swaying, dancing, etc., all I had to show was irregular and inconsistent contractions, if any at all. I was given a choice of breaking my water or pitocin and not wanting a time limit, I chose pitocin. Just one hour later, the drip was only at 7mg/min and I was feeling severe pain in my right hip and entire lower back. The doctor examined me, I hadn’t progressed, but as I was lying there a pain shot right into my back like a sledge hammer. I screamed so loud, started panicking, my husband was crying with me and all I could say was that something was very wrong. I was so exhausted and in such pain that I asked for an epidural and back on pitocin. I took a two hour nap, was examined upon waking up and still made no progress. An ultrasound found that he was LOT, just for the doctor’s knowledge, and I agreed to breaking my water. Within the following the minutes, I felt a ton of pressure three times, telling the doctor as she prepped herself and the room, and in just three pushes my son was born. I felt all the pressure of him against my pelvic bones and his poor face was black and blue for the next two weeks. Plus, when he arrived, he screamed for five minutes straight and has always been extremely touchy and screaming. Only this year he was diagnosed autistic because of his behavior and developmental delays. I would love to encourage research to be done on those born facing sideways. I wholeheartedly believe my son’s traumatic birth experience has alot, if not everything, to do with his challenges. I just know in my heart that everything would have been much different had I listened to myself and let nature run its course.

]]> By: Jenna https://www.dolphinmethod.com/the-last-minute-doula-preventing-c-sections-1-mom-at-a-time/#comment-21 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:36:13 +0000 http://www.jenniferwolfeyoga.com/blog/?p=170#comment-21 I was taken witty the title of this post as I have been a “last minute doula” for many as of late and have thought about posting on my blog with the same subject 🙂
what a FANTASTIC post… thank you for sharing.

]]> By: Shannon https://www.dolphinmethod.com/the-last-minute-doula-preventing-c-sections-1-mom-at-a-time/#comment-20 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:42:29 +0000 http://www.jenniferwolfeyoga.com/blog/?p=170#comment-20 I love stories like this! I just had a similar experience! Mom was stuck at 9 and OB said that if baby didn’t turn by the time he came back he would order the epidural and cesarean.

Mom was exhausted and all the coaxing from her hubby and I couldn’t get her to try positions necessary for a rotation. I managed to get her onto her side and took her leg and motored it through the motion of a lunge. Pulling her knee as high as I could and rotating her hip for her. She actually relaxed into it very well and thought it felt good. Her hubby was just staring wide eyed. 🙂

After about 20 minutes She hollered “I’m pushing!” so we rang the nurse and sure enough, 2 contractions later and sweet baby boy was in mommas arms! And the OB, having almost missed catching this one ends up saying, “wow, nice to see that natural childbirth still exists. You just don’t see that very often.”

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