Wondering wild minds indeed want to know... (Hi Jette! nice to see your posts
here...)
I have read of CS being performed in the case of impacted shoulders after the
birth of the head, but not for this indication. I echo Jette: do we
understand you in the right way?
Rachel Myr (yet again)
Would a section be performed after the delivery of
>the baby's head on the indication decelerations?
>Cheers from another inhabitant from the wild side
>Jette Aaroe Clausen
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>Trish Payne <[log in to unmask]>@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on 23-01-2003
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>Subject: Re: palpation for nuchal cords
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>Ok I'll put my two cents in. Yes US midwives are taught to cut nuchal
>cords if they are so tight the baby cannot be delivered through the cord
>which I was also taught (summersalted). You put two clamps on the cord and
>cut it; you need to be careful because it's so tight around the baby's
>neck. In about a 1000 births I think I've done it once because if it's that
>tight there will probably be significant decels and this mom may end up
>with a cesarean birth.
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>Trish Payne CNM
>Chapel Hill, NC
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>--On Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:39 PM +0100 rmyr <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Dawn,
>> Could you describe the actual maneuver of cutting the nuchal cord
>> *before* the baby manages to get born? This is the part I have never
>> been able to visualize. I am not being facetious; this baffles me (and
>> likely others with me!).
>> cheers, from 'the dark side' (can't we call it the Wild Side?)
>> Rachel Myr
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>>> Yes, here in the US, all new midwives are encouraged to cut cords and
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>>> can do it rather smoothly. No doubt you can see the increased
>>> resuscitation needed for these poor babes.
>>> Dawn Cockrell, CPM
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