Bite toy... works equally well for dogs and pregnant women
Wouldnt it have been faster just to test the patient for HIV ???
This one just begs for more detail. LOTS more detail.
I understand from the article that she got treatment and went back for the delivery but......she was waiting at the wrong end.
Midwives...scary.
I mangled the stand for the bed control, that looked like a car suspension spring, when I had my son. I also almost tore my DH’s pants off. That’s what being in that much pain does. It turns one into something like the incredible Hulk, with little ability to really control what’s going on. I don’t think I would have bitten anyone though.
Considering everything, the midwife should just be thankful she didn’t bite her arm off.
hubby says that I tried to bite him when giving birth to our first child. Something about the urge to push adn bear down.....I don’t know.
After my 26 1/2 hours of labor and 2 1/2 of hard contractions, if someone had gotten near my mouth, I probably would have bitten her too.
I would say the midwife was inexperienced with women in labor. I could have easily bitten through the bed rails.
jailing the mother? That is outrageous.
I apparently slugged the nurse who was helping me, I had no idea until later...Weird things happen while giving birth.
If they’re not going to have an epidermal they need a leather strap to bite on.
(ducking! I was there for both mine being launched into the world)
It is a good thing both of my arms were restrained on the delivery table for I seriously considered riping my husband’s nads off his body—all three times.
The sad truth is if I could have moved my arms, I would have tried. Well, sad for him. I find it funny. :-)
Assuming there is nothing more to the story, the midwife made herself vulnerable. Wonder if the midwife delivered the baby and then went to press charges?
Rather than jail the mother, the midwife needs to be punished for stupidity.
this is just more anti-birther propaganda.
Okay folks, simmer down.
First of all, midwives are actually optimal for normal deliveries: one of my wife’s three were with a midwife and as far as care, she far outshone both the first ob-gyn who wanted to get home early and gave her pitocin to speed things up or even the female ob-gyn who assisted with the third. So no, having midwives assist in the delivery of babies is not another mark against socialized medicine—actually the fact that it’s hard to impossible for midwives to practice in most states is a blot against our trial-lawyer-and-physicians-guild-monopoly pseudo-free-market approach to medicine.
Part of the reason is that midwives don’t medicalize the normal process of childbirth and act as if they’re treating a disease: they make a point of caring for the mother as well as delivering the baby.
Doubtless the midwife in the report was trying to do something soothing or moving the mother in a helpful way (believe it or not they generally know ergonomic tricks for aiding in labor—a variety of postures besides the lying down so gravity isn’t helping that physicians favor), when a particularly nasty contraction hit and the mother bit her.
Quite frankly I regard this as another example of the law being an ass: considering a mother in labor lashing out in any way as assault is, well, asinine.
20 weeks? These people are getting as bad as Nigeria, which wanted to stone a woman to death for being raped and giving birth. I really hope that one day in the far future such backwardness not tolerated on this planet.
Not-A-Ping....
B^)
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