[NYer]

It just gets crazier and crazier.

[Tribune7]

ping

[esarlls3]

The C-section is probably the lowest risk option and nobody wants to see the mother or child injured. But I think the Judge is intruding on private health care decisions here. Unless the parents are found unworthy and recklessly endangering their children, the state has no business interfering in their decisions. And the hospital should have focused on keeping them in the hospital on a vaginal birth plan where they could do an emergency C-section if needed. They may now go into hiding and avoid needed medical care to protect their family from the state. This is the highest risk outcome and one the hospital and state have pushed the parents into.

Prayers for the parents and child. And any doctors who may be called on to help them.

[cake_crumb]

This is a dumb story. My daughter delivered her son via emergency C-section last October. She was 33 1/2 weeks along.

She had a very bad case of preeclampsia. It was deemed that without the C-section, she and her unborn son might die. While there was a chance that she could have delivered him vaginally without his going into serious fetal distress, she chose the C-section because there was also a good chance that a vaginal birth would kill him. Yes, she knew her own odds of surviving and took the chance anyway for her son's sake.

They're both doing quite well, though my grandson suffered an unrelated illness (NEC) later and is still in the hospital, minus half his colon.

If the baby had been delivered vaginally and he and/or the mother had died, we wouldn't be reading this crap.

[Mo1]

In the C-section case, Amber Marlowe, a mother of six, left the hospital because she wanted to deliver her child vaginally. Doctors at the hospital had argued that a natural delivery could kill her and/or her baby

There seems to more to this story then is being reported, I'm thinking

Many women give birth to large babies naturally with no problems .. plus she has had 6 other child.

[20yearvet]

"She gave birth vaginally last Thursday morning at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton."
it appears to me that the first hospital who wanted a C-section was way out of line. this couple did as we are often told. They got a second opinion. Moses Taylor hospital had no problem with a vaginal birth. Do we want to set a presidents in that whate ever hospital you happent to go to first gets to decide what treatment you MUST have. What if they said you must donate a kidney to save a life? How about your having to take treatment to stop smoking? What if they decide that your too fat and want you to have a bypass operation? When dose it stop?