“11lbs4”
Should that birth have been cesarean?
YES birth should have been cesarean definitely, these are the tragic circumstances of the media scaring people half to death over a damn virus!!
Most definitely. Off the topic of the virus, my firstborn son back in 1979 weighed 7.7 lbs. and a covering doctor never did a c-section, even though he had my husband sign for one 2 hours after getting to the hospital. I am very petite, small pelvis, about 100 lbs. back then. The baby wasn’t delivered until 2:38 in the afternoon. Shortly afterward as some friends were looking through the nursery window, the curtains were suddenly closed because the baby started turning blue. He was transferred to a Children’s Hospital in Newark and died 6 weeks later in the neonatal unit from a cerebral hemorrhage, the biggest baby in the preemie unit. Normal pregnancy, perfect baby in all other regards. The doctor in Newark, I can still see him shaking his head in total sadness because he knew it shouldn’t have happened.
My own doctor was called by the covering one that the delivery was in trouble and still did not show up, it was his day off, a Sunday. He lived about 10 minutes from the hospital and was the same doctor that delivered me and two of my 3 siblings. Through the throes of labor the covering doctor laughed at me with a nurse at the foot of the bed as I was literally trying to pull my own hair out from the pain and calling for my mother. He also consulted, by phone, one or two other doctors from his practice. All involved are dead except the covering one, still practicing at 80+ yrs. old. A bit after the travesty of my baby, my sister found an article in her newspaper that the covering doctor had done the exact same thing to another couple and their son but their son lived and was brain damaged, case settled in an ‘undisclosed amount’. Nothing on record for the malpractice of the covering doctor.
My baby would be 41 this past March. I have said all through the years that there should be a way to check the size of a woman’s pelvis to forewarn whether a c-section will be needed. Nearly lost my grandson when my daughter went through full labor only to need an emergency c-section. She turned white, her lips included, from the blood loss. We both raised the concern of a possible c-section for her when she was pregnant, her doctors blew it off, just 14 yrs. ago. Thankfully my grandson made it although his head was stretched by the doctor using the suction thing twice before the c-section was done, it was a partner doctor, not my daughter’s main doctor, who was called away from her for another emergency c-section while she was in labor. The main one returned to do her c-section and the other one was not supposed to try the suction more than once. My husband and I were literally dying in the waiting room in a deja vu moment, reliving what we’d been through. We thank God it did not turn out the same.
(sorry for the off-topic story)
My second child, a daughter weighed 11 lbs 5 oz at birth. The doctor did have to use low forceps. I’ve always felt I would have been in serious trouble had I tried to deliver at home.
Big babies run in my family. We were not overweight. The doctor told me I was likely to develop diabetes but fortunately haven’t. My first child, a daughter, weighed 9 lbs 5 oz and my son weighed 10 lbs 4-1/2 oz.
My mother told me of remembering from very young her younger sibling, a boy, which would have been a home birth, weighed over 12 lbs and was a still born.
My daughter had one that big.They had to induce because it’s very dangerous for the baby over 10 Pounds.I was there when she gave birth.Nurse called her Porky Pig :)