I've heard of cases in which the doctor (or the assistant) introduced his/her arm into the woman's birth canal to take it out.
Is this true?
(Or does this only happen in third world countries?)
2007-06-15 11:23:03 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Sounds like it probably is true. If it doesn't come out, even with Pitocin (which they used with me), they sure aren't going to do a C-section to get it out! Also, after just having given birth, haiving an arm stuck up there is no big trauma.
2007-06-15 11:26:37 · answer #1 · answered by delia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hiya
I had a problem with my placemta after giving birth to daughter number 2. I was bleeding heavily and felt really ill. Placenta would not come away. It was all panic stations and a doctor came and put his hand up to remove it manually. all this was done WITHOUT any pain relief (had none in labour either). He then had to go back in to reemove my membranes.
I had amassive blood loss and felt like I was being tortured - my veins collapsed as well and no one was explaining anything to me. I thought I was slipping away.
It still upsets me thinking about it and I am terrified of giving birth to my 3rd as I dont want a repeat of what happened. My first daughter was born by emergency section after she got stuck and it all went wrong as I felt the whole thing.
Hence my reason for being terified this time.
been told to expect placenta problem again this time.
I have never heard of this happening to anyone else before - everyone I have spoken to has always had an epidural or D & C.
so yes lol - it is very true and hurts a lot.
I am looking for support as I dont know what to do this time lol
xx
2007-06-16 06:11:36 · answer #2 · answered by mandy g 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No--it's quite possible to remove the placenta manually.
It isn't common, but it's not unheard of.
Don't be concerned. It usually doesn't take much to expel the placenta, and you'll be so happy that your new child is in your arms that it won't matter WHAT they do!
2007-06-15 11:26:38 · answer #3 · answered by FaZizzle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They had to push a lot in my mom's stomach and she was bruised pretty bad after i was born but that was b/c the placenta didn't come out in 1 peice but rather several large chuncks but that's how they usually start followed by a d+c
2007-06-15 11:31:04 · answer #4 · answered by renee70466 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The placenta is always removed after birth. If it is not, then that doctor should not be practicing.
2007-06-15 11:26:17 · answer #5 · answered by ☆Zestee☆ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only time I have ever heard of this is when the placenta fuses itself to a part of the uterus and to stop from hemorrhaging to death they remove it and what it is fused to, kinda like a hysterectomy
2007-06-15 11:27:25 · answer #6 · answered by YouAsked4it 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom hemorrhaged when she had me, and the doctor had to stick his arm i her and scrape it out... another doctor did the same thing to her with her second child, not because she hemorrhaged, but because she didn't want to wait for it to come out.. (very bad doctor) The Dr that delivered me said that was probably the reason she hemorrhaged with me.....(I was her third)
But in general they just wait for it to be delivered... up to 1 hour I believe, if it doesn't come out they use pitocin and possibly have to manually remove it.
2007-06-15 11:46:20 · answer #7 · answered by ME 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in most cases the doctor does a " D&C" , he removes the placenta surgically.
2007-06-15 11:26:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Usually a nurse will push on your abdomen to force it out, but whatever it takes -- if that means pulling it out by hand, so be it. It has to be done.
2007-06-15 11:26:30 · answer #9 · answered by Mickey Mouse Spears 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
after baby is born an injection is automatically adminstered into your theigh which will help the placenta to release in your next contraction.
2007-06-15 11:26:12 · answer #10 · answered by PopSocks 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋