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Question for any Freepers in the medical community: my understanding is that waste products leave the still-growing infant via the umbilical cord; since the emergency C-section mentioned in the article above was initiated because the child apparently defecated normally, could that problem be a result of trauma resulting from the kick or "push kick"?
1 posted on 05/15/2012 8:13:08 AM PDT by Altariel
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Dozier says the kick bruised her midsection. The child apparently was not injured. The boy was born healthy two weeks later by emergency C-section, which doctors performed when the baby defecated in the womb.

The DeKalb County Police Department says the officer didn’t do anything wrong. Officer Jerad Wheeler reported Dozier was coming toward him in an aggressive manner. In the darkness with Dozier wearing a large shirt, he says he didn’t know that she was pregnant.

Dozier was originally charged with obstruction, but that charge has been dropped.

http://www.wsbradio.com/news/news/pregnant-woman-says-dekalb-cop-kicked-her-stomach/nNzGz/


2 posted on 05/15/2012 8:14:06 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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In January 2012, a family complained after Wheeler shot their dog while he was on a chain inside their garage. Wheeler had responded to the wrong address.

Never want to pass up an opportunity to shoot a dog.

Decatur law enforcement has a pretty violent legacy.

Former DeKalb county Georgia sheriff convicted of murdering successor

3 posted on 05/15/2012 8:23:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Do I really need a sarcasm tag? Seriously? You're that dense?)
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This guy has some real issues.

He describes his action and thusly justifies so:

The kick was a front push kick to the abdomen as I was taught to do in the academy.

Sure you were Paleo-man.

This guy has issues and needs to have subscriptions cancelled along with a real good attitude adjustment.

I suspect the removal of his shield would temper his superiority complex as immunity would be removed and he would be just a civilian who would take an azz beating like any other guy.


7 posted on 05/15/2012 9:46:19 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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“... could that problem be a result of trauma resulting from the kick or “push kick”.

Fetal defecation in the womb is not normal. The meconium (the first greenish/yellowish stool) is normally passed after birth. However, a baby can defecate in the womb. Baby number 2 did that when I was in labor (albeit it was a difficult labor with lots of other strange things going on). I asked my OB why it happened in my case and he did say it was because of the traumatic birth. So, yes... I think in this case it could have been the result of the trauma but probably difficult to prove. The most frightening part in my incident was as soon as she was born, there were about six neonatal specialists that put a tube down her throat to look into her lungs (to see if she had inhaled any). Thank goodness she didn’t because that can cause another set of life threatening problem.


9 posted on 05/15/2012 9:55:38 AM PDT by momtothree
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Only waste molecules dissolved in the blood will exit via the umbilical cord (carbon dioxide, protein by-products, etc.). The meconium is swallowed cells from the amniotic fluid, and intestinal secretions. There’s just no way you could prove that the kick caused the baby to release the meconium.

The danger of meconium in the amniotic fluid is that it might be inhaled when the baby is born and cause lung damage, and may indicate that the baby is in distress before birth, although fetal monitoring should help clear that up.

When there was meconium in the amniotic fluid with my third, the midwife called in the neonatal resuscitation team to stand by and they snatched him away as soon as he came out and suctioned him at once and checked him over very thoroughly - scary but he was just fine. Just an early pooper.


13 posted on 05/15/2012 10:46:29 AM PDT by heartwood
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... she was wearing a large shirt, and he couldn’t tell she was pregnant.


Aren’t these called ‘maternity clothes’?


14 posted on 05/15/2012 10:55:24 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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This guy has some real issues. However, I noticed he doesn’t like to pick fights with someone that could actually win. He seems to like to pick fights that he can’t lose. >P> He kicks a pregnant lady, slams a 53 year old lady, and shoots a chained dog.


17 posted on 05/15/2012 2:42:56 PM PDT by kara37
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“”What kind of a human being kicks a pregnant woman? I mean, forget whether or not it is a police officer that is supposedly protecting people,” Dozier’s attorney Mark Bullman said. “

The kind who has been desensitized by planned parenthood to believe that the baby is not a human life and that “mothers” and the word mother is obscene.


18 posted on 05/15/2012 3:19:36 PM PDT by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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