Nah, most new fathers these days would rather have a handheld video game.
Posted on 07/07/2005 1:20:28 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Los Angeles (Reuters) A California woman is suing a hospital for wrongful death because her husband fainted and suffered a fatal injury after helping delivery room staff give her a pain-killing injection.
Jeanette Passalaqua, 32, filed the suit against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Southern California Permanente Medical Group Inc. in San Bernardino County state court last week.
In June 2004, Passalaqua's husband, Steven Passalaqua, was asked by Kaiser staff to hold and steady his wife while an employee inserted an epidural needle into her back, court papers said.
The sight of the needle caused Steven Passalaqua, 33, to faint and he fell backward, striking his head on an aluminum cap molding at the base of the wall.
Jeanette Passalaqua delivered the couple's second child, a boy, later that day. Steven Passalaqua, however, suffered a brain hemorrhage as a result of his fall and died two days later, the lawsuit said.
The suit seeks unspecified damages related to Steven Passalaqua's death and to Jeanette Passalaqua's emotional distress at being widowed with two young children.
Because Passalaqua was solicited by Kaiser to assist in the epidural, the lawsuit said, the hospital "owed him a duty to exercise reasonable care to prevent foreseeable injuries resulting from his participation."
A spokesman for Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente called the death "a tragic accident."
"Some of the allegations in the lawsuit are simply that -- allegations. The legal process is under way and we should respect that," said Kaiser spokesman Jim Anderson.
Nah, most new fathers these days would rather have a handheld video game.
You could be right that sitting up is superior. I had one anesthetist who did it that way. My observation was simply that things had been done differently in my deliveries, not that lying down was better, although from the point of view of the laboring woman, it is better!
You gave me the first laugh of the day!
Whoa! You are a phenomenon...hats off to you! (Mebbe it's time to send hubby out drinkin' with the boys more often). ( :-D
The production of children has slowed down since he started competitive running - it takes a lot of energy for a 40-plus guy :-).
I guess we started the Friday Silliness Thread early!
Nobody gets near ME with any visual-recording device (not even a Freepin' sketchpad!) until I'm home, dressed, and made up!
Yeah, I had all of mine without anesthesia. Sure it hurts like hell, but by the time you're ready to yell "uncle," it's almost time for the baby to pop out anyway.
I just never wanted to have an epidural I learned that the drugs cross the placenta into the baby's blood; and that it can slow down the process, make it a lot harder to push, and just generally lead to more complications including more c-sections.
I think a lot of women would forego anesthesia if they understood, clearly, that birth is supposed to hurt! --but that, in most cases it doesn't last too long. (And in compensation you get a healthy, alert baby when you're finished.)
Too many women IMO are propagandized in "birthing classes" into thinking that if they just do their "breathing techniques" right, it won't hurt. Then they're shocked to find it hurts anyway, think they're failures for doing it "wrong," and throw in the towel. "OK, bring on the epidural -- pleeeeeease!" And sometimes doctors pressure them into it, too.
Wow, you're closing in on your own baseball team. I called you brave without knowledge of the full extent of said bravado. I'm not sure what sounds more daunting - having that many kids to herd, or being pregnant & giving birth 8 times! I trust that at least the older kids are taking care of the younger ones so you can get some rest.
Next time I feel stretched in all directions by my mere three, I will no doubt remember you and be refreshed anew. If you tell me you homeschool, I'll pass out right here and now. ;)
Have a wonderful pregnancy!
We homeschool - but don't faint. Everyone's behind on math. (What do you do more, anyway ... long division, or housecleaning? :-)
Being pregnant is a drag, especially at almost 40, but I've been fortunate to have falling-off-a-log deliveries, except for the breech.
I KNEW it! Is that you, Mrs. Ferris? Ha, just kidding, besides, they have 12 I think. We homeschool too - I must have seen you post on one of the hs threads. Once again, when my 2 year old is disrupting my 8 year old's tests, I'll think of you. :)
I just looked at your profile page - what gorgeous kids.
I'm sure none of the Farris kids is doing remedial math :-). Thanks for the compliments; the kids take after their dad.
That was close.
Cups and helmets all around.
LoL. I hadn't noticed that.
Maybe, but falling on a video game just presents another hazard.
I don't know how many times I have seen that on FR we all think alike on a lot of things.
I guess thats why we hang out here.
That's the way I see it. I've never been pregnant, ergo I've never delivered, but I tend to think my chic updo might not last through that.
Congratulations on your family. I'd never make it through a delivery if I had to watch!
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