Pitocin clip-Business of Being Born

[sherritaberry]

This is so true! With my first son I went natural for 15 hours and then they started the pittocin and 3 hours later they trippled the dosage for the the pit, next thing I knew I had to have a Csection. I feel like I was robbed of my experience. Why can I get this movie?

[brosue4]

My mother was in labor with me for 96 hours after her water broke. In a hospital too, but regulations have changed since the 80s :) When I have children, they will be born at home, provided of course there are no red flags beforehand. A woman's body can give birth perfectly most of the time, but when you are in that 5% group with a serious problem, thank Gd for the hospitals and interventions. Its just not something I would chose without serious medical need.

[PEDROCLASSIC]

wow. i still miss the riki lake show in the 90s. i had this big crush on her. just lovely

[TheLoud]

This makes me so glad I avoided all this and had a wonderful homebirth with a midwife. 36 mostly relaxed hours after my water broke, my baby was safely born. Her cord was wrapped tightly around her neck twice, but the midwife freed her and revived her with oxygen, no problem.

[DrSandmann]

At about 1:53, the woman speaking is discussing as commonplace a progression that doesn't occur commonly. Her comments are VERY misleading, and I know this to be the case.

Hell, my own child was induced, and my wife's labor took about 9 hours. No fetal distress, no nothing. A perfectly normal delivery. My daughter came out, cried herand breast-fed like a champ.

[BBGenelie]

pinch your nipples. that stimulates your body's natural oxytocin(artificial name: pitocin) to be released. i learned this from my teacher. she has been a midwife for over 20 years in unprepared home settings.

[misteeq64]

That bloody pitocin gave me contaction for a month after the birth . I infiltrated the intravenous myself to get ride of it . i was in so much pain i felt i was in labor for a month . HOMEBIRTH ALL THE WAY

[alwayzmyself]

Ugh. My doctor induced me with pitocin and cervadil because an ultrasound @38weeks showed the cord around the babys neck twice and they were worried. After a day full of pitocin, my water finally broke, contractions came on hard, they said I would wear myself out because I was barely dialated, so they told me to get an epidural. Then the anesthesiologist put the needle too deep in my spine, numbing me from NECK down. My heart rate dropped, baby's heart rate dropped... voila. c-section time.

[lemondropsforever]

I had to be induced due to a liver condition that was potentially dangerous to my baby. I was given the epidural, they then started pitocin and 2 hours later my baby was born. Not the scary picture that was painted here. Although, I do think inductions are pretty unnecessary for the majoirty of pregnancies.

[Gardedame]

That is just the same, what happend to my mom and my lil' sis' 15 years ago.

Oh, well. My sister can go now to a normal school... but mom still has problems because of that ceasar. (hernia 1., than hernia 2.)

Go Doctors, GOOOOO!

P.S.: Yes. My sister needed long years of special care - gymnastics, psychologist, and lots of hours with a special teacher. She still needs strong glasses, and her right foot is still somewhat lamed. But she is as any normal child now. Not thanks to the pitocin...

[briarrose29]

With my first child, my water broke and I didn't dialate for almost and entire day. The dr. told me that this was dangerous for the baby because she might swallow too much fluid. I had to be induced.

[serendipitydoula]

I know of a woman who went more than 72 hours after her water broke without dilating. The trick with broken waters is that 1. the cord should not be in the vagina 2. the infection myth-if you stay in your own home with your own surroundings and no one sticks their fingers in you every hour, you won't be risking infection, thus safe to stay home until contractions start. A doula can help you with these types of questions and maybe even save you from unnecessary interventions.

[Novasmom08]

Swallow to much fluid????

THATS STUPID....They Drink down their own fluid through the whole Pregnancy...then they Urinate it back out!!!!!

Please Do your homework and LEARN something instead of being a blind sheep! PLEASE....

[TheOakWizard]

The trick with pitocin is how you use it. I had a natural childbirth, but my midwife did have to give me pitocin because I wasn't having contractions and was not dilating. However, she had me on a very slow drip and I was only on it for about 15 minutes until I started contracting on my own. After that, my labor kicked into gear and I was able to deliver a beautiful, healthy baby boy without an epidural. Pitocin is something that should be a last resort and should be used delicately.

[hulk911]

If these people really want to complain so much about hospital birth, then they should just have their babies at home!

[aleorangekit]

Of course, that is why I'll have, when the time comes and if its possible, a homebirth.

[dahoundog21]

the funny thing about your comment is that they do have their births at home because they don't want to deal with the hospital politics, etc. If you watch the rest of the film that this clip is from, you'd get to see Ricki Lake delivering a baby from her home. haha. :)

[detachedlegs2]

Because they were told it was unsafe, and they aren't camplaining they are warning other women.

[varickwt]

All this stuff is crap, women have been having babies for thousands and thousands of years without all this...

[crpsaiyan]

@varickwt Exactly. Muscles stretch... maybe a couple bones will break. No, I was just kidding with that last part. All joking aside, my supervisor's wife was in labor for almost three days, and yet, she was able to deliver her child vaginally. Maybe it just depends on the person, or how well the baby is inside the womb. After all, every labor and birth story is completely different; it's NEVER the same.

[SandraFowler]

@varickwt , And until fairly recently, large numbers of them were dying while doing it...

[Aditi000]

@varickwt I agree with you!!! When I see women in hospitals with people telling them how to hold their legs---BS!!!! It's MY baby & MY labor & I'll do it how I see fit!!! You can't be afraid of nature.

[yourboyken]

This is the big Pharma doing there dirty buisness, we should riot there headQuarters and burn them to the ground!

[OURPLAYLISTSSSS]

I have feeling it'll take more than burning to get rid of them.

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