Re:Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduc...
by hospitalhusband on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:28PM
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We're going through this as I type this comment.
My wife started having contractions and showing early signs of labor. Our nurse midwife gave her a tocolytic to relax the uterus, and recommended we go to the hospital to make sure that everything was okay if labor started again because she was 4cm dilated. The contractions had stopped by the time we arrived. The hospital hooked her up to continuous monitoring and determined that the contraction monitor (which is simply a pressure sensor on her belly) showed repeated contractions enough for many medical interventions that ended up doing significant harm (making a 95# woman carrying a baby not eat or drink for over 24 hours, take large doses of medication that gave her horrible side effects, and taking preventative antibiotics prior to test results coming in because of a fear of the baby's imminent delivery).
Her insistence that she wasn't having any contractions were ignored, and the doctors were visibly upset that we would contradict them and their equipment.
Later she told me she was about to fart again and to clear the area, and I noticed that her monitoring was showing a contraction. We called a nurse in and asked them to confirm, to which they did confirm that they thought it was a contraction. My wife let them know that it was actually a fart and they said they'd never heard of that before... Because I guess what patient is going to say their doctor is wrong because they have been gassy? It was a stroke of luck that I was watching the monitor when she told me that, otherwise she may have had an emergency c section as she was coerced into signing consent for that one. Not a good experience at all, and it made me completely disillusioned at the whole process.
My wife started having contractions and showing early signs of labor. Our nurse midwife gave her a tocolytic to relax the uterus, and recommended we go to the hospital to make sure that everything was okay if labor started again because she was 4cm dilated. The contractions had stopped by the time we arrived. The hospital hooked her up to continuous monitoring and determined that the contraction monitor (which is simply a pressure sensor on her belly) showed repeated contractions enough for many medical interventions that ended up doing significant harm (making a 95# woman carrying a baby not eat or drink for over 24 hours, take large doses of medication that gave her horrible side effects, and taking preventative antibiotics prior to test results coming in because of a fear of the baby's imminent delivery).
Her insistence that she wasn't having any contractions were ignored, and the doctors were visibly upset that we would contradict them and their equipment.
Later she told me she was about to fart again and to clear the area, and I noticed that her monitoring was showing a contraction. We called a nurse in and asked them to confirm, to which they did confirm that they thought it was a contraction. My wife let them know that it was actually a fart and they said they'd never heard of that before... Because I guess what patient is going to say their doctor is wrong because they have been gassy? It was a stroke of luck that I was watching the monitor when she told me that, otherwise she may have had an emergency c section as she was coerced into signing consent for that one. Not a good experience at all, and it made me completely disillusioned at the whole process.