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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

One explanation is lawyers and $50,000 malpractice insurance if self employed thus most obstetricians are employed. Hospital protocols . Hard stop . Sadly it is part of the ACOG guidelines along with Covid jabs . 🤬

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Our system is broken 😞

Laura Thor's avatar

I was set to get retested via agreement with my obstetrician when I showed positive when pregnant with my 3rd child (8 yrs ago). Went into labour a day before retest. So I declined at hospital and was subsequently treated with overt disdain. When baby was born, my strong, repeated, written request for delayed cord cutting was ignored completely (excuse was that I wanted to hold baby immediately). Baby was fine, but we were required to stay in hospital for monitoring for five days. I had him next to me in bed for breastfeeding, until the head of the department came in and told me that if I was not able to get his temperature down by keeping him in the glass baby case up in the table, I’d be forced to consent to antibiotics for him. She whispered that she agreed with what I was doing, but the protocols were what they were.

So I placed him apart from me for a short time, his temperature went to acceptable, and we could leave. This all sounds crazy when I type it out now.

I’m happy we have the access to the care we do where I live, but these ridged protocols need to change. At least I can say I stood my ground and he’s never needed antibiotics in his life (just as my other children have not either).

jacqueline delaney's avatar

My daughter just went through this . Antibiotics, oxytocin, 24 hours of labor 1.5 hr pushing then c section. How do you help the micro biome in this case. She is breastfeeding thank god!

Gwyneth's avatar

Tell your daughter to take a swab of her vaginal flora with her finger and put it in the baby's mouth. Alternately, she can wipe it on her nipples before breastfeeding.

RoadChaser's avatar

The same community that embraces abortion and child mutilations will/does use any excuse to over-ride nature under the banner of "sound practice" and with their unsound, unproven, protocols bring more harm than good.

Diane's avatar

I was told I have this and had to be on iv antibiotics during my "natural" childbirthing experience at the birthing center which led me to be puffy and exhausted transfered to hospital where they threatened c-section in 45 minutes upon arrival. I bore down and tore and dr asked if staff could come watch as they had never seen a live birth. Incredible. Me and my more baby were so puffy. I'm sure this contributed to this child being a picky eater 😔 also didn't know better until after birth and 2 months vaccines. So grateful I was able to find research to stop after and my mama intuition knew not to give advice when fever came after those 2 months poisions. I pray for all the families atill unaware of the toxins and abusive birthing practices. Even midwives which operate in the system with insurance have to comply.

Neil Pryke's avatar

It implies a lack of self-control...and the venality of doctors...Blinded to decency and ethics by the prospect of wealth at the stroke of a pen on a prescription-pad...