Anyone keeping up with the crazy failed birth story in Georgia?

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This couple is going to own the hospital when it's all over.
Apparently the doctor decapitated the baby during a C section delivery.
The staff tried to play it off and still swaddled the baby and handed it to the mother, claiming it was stillborn.
www.nbcnews.com

Georgia doctor decapitated baby during delivery, according to lawsuit

The parents' attorneys also accused the hospital in Riverdale of of trying to cover up the decapitation by discouraging the couple from getting an autopsy.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
 
Spoke to my wife about this earlier, she was a L&D nurse for 20 years.

They’re suing everyone involved, including the hospital. It sets a bad precedent IMO Because there are assuredly a number of people that have no control over this tragedy. There’s probably no way they didn’t tell them the baby was decapitated during the section, which happened after the baby had died and they aren’t going to dress it up like a frankenstein and try to pass it off as intact. They WILL dress them and situate it in swaddling so that the mother can say goodbye, but there will have been no intent to fool the grieving mother. No hospital would ever do that, so I’m not buying they tried to. And c-sections aren‘t just done unless there is a need, so they can’t just “request one” and get one done.

It was a shoulder dystocia. When it happens the doctor has a number of things to try but in the end, the emergency can prove fatal to the baby, mother, or both. In this case the baby died after the doctor was unsuccessful in maneuvering the baby. No idea why a section wasnt attempted while the baby was alive, though. Might be that the death happened fast and at the time the doctor figured there was time to continue maneuvering.

The main thing is we don’t know yet what happened in the delivery room, but we DO know that NBC News just used a headline that is misleading. My first thought was The doctor cut the head off of a live baby while doing a normal section. I had to read it to find out the baby was already dead and that it was a very dangerous condition they were all fighting in the delivery room. So here, the media sensationalizes a tragedy to sway opinion or to get clicks. Pathetic.

In short, the doctor, staff, and hospital did not cause this. It’s one of those things that just happen, and it’s terrible. I feel for this couple, but a lawsuit against every possible entity that couldn’t help that their baby died is a but much.

ODK, maybe I’m all wet. I understand lashing out with a suit if they think there was crazy negligence, but sometimes these things just happen and you have to move on. It isn’t necessarily negligent When a baby dies during childbirth.
 
Something I forgot to mention - it is entirely possible that the baby was stuck in both directions, as can happen. If that is the case, then since the baby was already dead, the safest thing for the mother may have been to decapitate the head.
 
rfjeff9 said:
Spoke to my wife about this earlier, she was a L&D nurse for 20 years.

They’re suing everyone involved, including the hospital. It sets a bad precedent IMO Because there are assuredly a number of people that have no control over this tragedy. There’s probably no way they didn’t tell them the baby was decapitated during the section, which happened after the baby had died and they aren’t going to dress it up like a frankenstein and try to pass it off as intact. They WILL dress them and situate it in swaddling so that the mother can say goodbye, but there will have been no intent to fool the grieving mother. No hospital would ever do that, so I’m not buying they tried to. And c-sections aren‘t just done unless there is a need, so they can’t just “request one” and get one done.

It was a shoulder dystocia. When it happens the doctor has a number of things to try but in the end, the emergency can prove fatal to the baby, mother, or both. In this case the baby died after the doctor was unsuccessful in maneuvering the baby. No idea why a section wasnt attempted while the baby was alive, though. Might be that the death happened fast and at the time the doctor figured there was time to continue maneuvering.

The main thing is we don’t know yet what happened in the delivery room, but we DO know that NBC News just used a headline that is misleading. My first thought was The doctor cut the head off of a live baby while doing a normal section. I had to read it to find out the baby was already dead and that it was a very dangerous condition they were all fighting in the delivery room. So here, the media sensationalizes a tragedy to sway opinion or to get clicks. Pathetic.

In short, the doctor, staff, and hospital did not cause this. It’s one of those things that just happen, and it’s terrible. I feel for this couple, but a lawsuit against every possible entity that couldn’t help that their baby died is a but much.

ODK, maybe I’m all wet. I understand lashing out with a suit if they think there was crazy negligence, but sometimes these things just happen and you have to move on. It isn’t necessarily negligent When a baby dies during childbirth.
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From the OP posted article it would appear that the baby was fine and then the delivering doctor who insisted on a natural birth pushed too hard on baby's head and may have cause the death. The parents had asked for a c-section delivery at the first sound of trouble and before the delivering doctor tried this other procedure. In a cruel faith the woman ended up having the c section some 3 hours later once the baby's heart beat was no longer heard. So I don't know what you are talking about but this family has every right to be upset. If it was my child there would be a scene for sure....some furniture would have been displaced....some fist would have swung!
 
rfjeff9 said:
Something I forgot to mention - it is entirely possible that the baby was stuck in both directions, as can happen. If that is the case, then the head would have to come off so as to not cause further issues with the mother.
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Thank you Doctor Dummy, that will be all....
 
Bayou Tiger said:
From the OP posted article it would appear that the baby was fine and then the delivering doctor who insisted on a natural birth pushed too hard on baby's head and may have cause the death. The parents had asked for a c-section delivery at the first sound of trouble and before the delivering doctor tried this other procedure. In a cruel faith the woman ended up having the c section some 3 hours later once the baby's heart beat was no longer heard. So I don't know what you are talking about but this family has every right to be upset. If it was my child there would be a scene for sure....some furniture would have been displaced....some fist would have swung!
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I didn’t say they shouldn’t be upset, but the normal procedure is not to just jump to C-section, no matter what you think. I do agree that the doctor probably pushed too hard and may have caused the death, but we don’t actually know that. What we DO know is that a shoulder dystocia is a very bad thing to happen during delivery and everyone will do their best to safely deliver.
 
To continue, once shoulder dystocia has occurred, the doctor has to try a few maneuvers to free the baby, and c-section isn’t one of them, it isn’t the same procedure as performing a normal c-section, because the baby is stuck. The last maneuver is to push the head back in, which it seems likely the case here. If the baby dies here, the doctor did what she could and it just didn’t work.

These last resort handful of maneuvers are emergency maneuvers since the baby is being deprived of oxygen at this time. If they don’t work, the focus is switched to saving the mother, not the baby, because at that point it is too late.
 
Sounds like a bullshit story the lawyer is trying to peddle for monetary gain.
 
Sounds like a pretty sad sitch for everyone. Wouldn’t wish this on anyone.

Idk about suing the hospital. Maybe the staff fucked up, maybe they didn’t. But sometimes, things happen that just can’t be helped. That’s life en sech. Pointing fingers only makes it worse.
 
rfjeff9 said:
Spoke to my wife about this earlier, she was a L&D nurse for 20 years.

They’re suing everyone involved, including the hospital. It sets a bad precedent IMO Because there are assuredly a number of people that have no control over this tragedy. There’s probably no way they didn’t tell them the baby was decapitated during the section, which happened after the baby had died and they aren’t going to dress it up like a frankenstein and try to pass it off as intact. They WILL dress them and situate it in swaddling so that the mother can say goodbye, but there will have been no intent to fool the grieving mother. No hospital would ever do that, so I’m not buying they tried to. And c-sections aren‘t just done unless there is a need, so they can’t just “request one” and get one done.

It was a shoulder dystocia. When it happens the doctor has a number of things to try but in the end, the emergency can prove fatal to the baby, mother, or both. In this case the baby died after the doctor was unsuccessful in maneuvering the baby. No idea why a section wasnt attempted while the baby was alive, though. Might be that the death happened fast and at the time the doctor figured there was time to continue maneuvering.

The main thing is we don’t know yet what happened in the delivery room, but we DO know that NBC News just used a headline that is misleading. My first thought was The doctor cut the head off of a live baby while doing a normal section. I had to read it to find out the baby was already dead and that it was a very dangerous condition they were all fighting in the delivery room. So here, the media sensationalizes a tragedy to sway opinion or to get clicks. Pathetic.

In short, the doctor, staff, and hospital did not cause this. It’s one of those things that just happen, and it’s terrible. I feel for this couple, but a lawsuit against every possible entity that couldn’t help that their baby died is a but much.

ODK, maybe I’m all wet. I understand lashing out with a suit if they think there was crazy negligence, but sometimes these things just happen and you have to move on. It isn’t necessarily negligent When a baby dies during childbirth.
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The wife is an OR surgical tech in L&D dept at a hospital here. She echo'd this for the most part. Fucking awful situation.
 
Hospitals and their personnel are very difficult to sue.

A lot of lawyers just give clients the cold hard truth.
 
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