Woman induces labor so husband doesnt miss Bears game - Page 2 - New England Patriots Forums

upstater1 · 01-21-2007, 04:10 PM

That's screwed up. In cases where a baby is late, then yeah, pitocin is a smart thing to give a woman. If you don't need it (and this woman clearly didn't because the average birth right now is 41 1/2 weeks, she was at least 2 1/2 weeks away from being officially late) then don't take it. It makes for much more vilent and prolonged contractions and causes distress in the baby.

These sound like awful people to me, just like the loonies that induced pregnancy on 6/6/06 (my daughter was born on 6/4/06, and as we were checking out, the hospital was filled up with people inducing).

Bella*chick · 01-21-2007, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by upstater1

That's screwed up. In cases where a baby is late, then yeah, pitocin is a smart thing to give a woman. If you don't need it (and this woman clearly didn't because the average birth right now is 41 1/2 weeks, she was at least 2 1/2 weeks away from being officially late) then don't take it. It makes for much more vilent and prolonged contractions and causes distress in the baby.

These sound like awful people to me, just like the loonies that induced pregnancy on 6/6/06 (my daughter was born on 6/4/06, and as we were checking out, the hospital was filled up with people inducing).

You are 100% right. Also, pitocin can lead to complications (basically one intervention leading to many more) which can result in an unnecessary C-section for the mother, among other things.

I love the Patriots. I named my son after their starting safety and their quarterback. But I would never, never do something like that even if I had tickets to the game. That's just messed up. Unless it's extremely late, the baby should come when it is good and ready.