RE: [ozmidwifery] retained placenta & PPH

2006-12-05 Thread Christine Holliday
@acegraphics.com.au Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] retained placenta & PPH The relationship between retained placenta and PPH is that the uterus that is not empty can not clamp down sufficiently to prevent bleeding from the placental site. Imagine that the placental site is about the size of a bread and bu

Re: [ozmidwifery] retained placenta & PPH

2006-12-05 Thread Kristin Beckedahl
Thanks Andrea. Do you think this may have come back how 3rd stage was managed? ie. synto How likely is a natural 3rd stage to retain a placenta? Thanks, Kristin From: Andrea Quanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: Re: [ozmidwi

Re: [ozmidwifery] retained placenta & PPH

2006-12-04 Thread Andrea Quanchi
The relationship between retained placenta and PPH is that the uterus that is not empty can not clamp down sufficiently to prevent bleeding from the placental site. Imagine that the placental site is about the size of a bread and butter plate and that this is characterised by masses of bl

[ozmidwifery] retained placenta & PPH

2006-12-04 Thread Kristin Beckedahl
Hi all, Was chatting to a woman y'day re her first birth.  She has very fast labour "woke up and was 6cm!", laboured for another 2.5hrs, reached 10cm "then they gave me the epidural"(which I am still wondering about?!?)  Bub was posterior so "this allowed him to turn otherwise he wouldnt have come