what is happening?
2006-10-15 19:57:58 · 14 answers · asked by chapped lips 5 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
Would you want to see your belly being cut open, a hand shoved into your belly and then pulling a baby out?! I know I don't!!
2006-10-15 20:00:54 · answer #1 · answered by He_Knows_Me 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
because when you are having the operation, you need to keep a sterile area so you wont get infection in your opened abdominal area, and also because you cant feel anything with the spinal anaesthetic they give you, the mother might freak out when she sees the doctor cut her open and then cut the uterus to get the child out, there is usually a lot of amniotic fluid gushing out along with the baby, and sometimes the baby is blue, and needs resuscitation before the mother gets to hold her baby..
some dads faint in the operating theater when they see what is happening to their wives..
and maybe the doctors don't want litigation
2006-10-16 03:13:54 · answer #2 · answered by julie m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For two reasons: To keep it sterile (since the lady doesn't scrub in like the docs do), and to keep her from freaking out if she saw her belly being sliced open.
I had a c-section in February, and I asked them to lower the curtain so I could see my son being born, and they did. I would've watched, if I could, and I would have loved to have a video of it, but we didn't ask if we could film it. I forgot to, in the excitement of getting ready.
2006-10-16 11:56:58 · answer #3 · answered by Queen Queso 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The drape is used to protect the sterile environment that the physician has created after all a c-section is considered major abdominal surgery and we don't want people getting unnecessary infections by careless behavior.
2006-10-16 03:01:17 · answer #4 · answered by texanna 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I had mine, they had trouble getting the baby out, it was taking forever, but no one would tell me what was going on so I tried to lift the sheet and they yelled at me. It turns out, they had broken the vacuum in two and the suction part was stuck to my son's head! I was also losing so much blood that I almost had to have a transfusion. So, I guess there are some things they just don't want us to see so we don't freak out. But, "all's well that ends well".
2006-10-16 04:10:27 · answer #5 · answered by hellojamie2006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the curtain is too keep the sterile environment, but if u wanna se ur own c section, just have it recorded, than watch urself afterwrds
2006-10-16 03:07:33 · answer #6 · answered by salmonbelly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kudos Julie M.
I would not have wanted to watch that either, but obviously the sterile surgical environment is the priority here. This is surgery, not natural labor.
2006-10-16 03:34:42 · answer #7 · answered by Jessy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is to keep the sterile field. your breath can put germs in there.
Wife had a c section four months ago
2006-10-16 09:11:51 · answer #8 · answered by Big Daddy R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and they want to keep the operating area sterile. the patient is not wearing a mask.
2006-10-16 22:08:13 · answer #9 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because most women don't want to see the doctor take there guts out of there belly and place them on top of it pull a baby out and then put all the guts and organs back in place it's pretty gross!!
2006-10-16 03:02:18 · answer #10 · answered by black_aquarius1988 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋