From:
Lieve Huybrechts
To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 9:11
PM
Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] CTG &
stillbirth
Hello
Michelle
Last week something
strange has happened. Two colleague midwives had a stillbirth at home. A very
norm
I think it shows one person's interpretation of
a CTG...
- Original Message -
From:
Michelle Windsor
To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 9:39
PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG &
stillbirth
Hi Sadie
Hi Sadie, I guess the thing is that alot of people believe that a normal CTG (not in labour) is reassuring for fetal well being for the next 24 hours. Obviously this wasn't the case for this baby. You said about doing emergency C/S for unressuring trace only to have the baby come out scre
Hello Michelle
Last week something
strange has happened. Two colleague midwives had a stillbirth at home. A very
normal labour, half an hour second stage, good heartbeats. When the baby’s
head was born they saw meconium in the mouth (the water was clear when it broke
minutes before). Th
e and vice vera.
Very sad..
- Original Message -
From:
Sadie
To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 5:38
PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG &
stillbirth
CTG's can only reveal what is happening at
that mome
CTG's can only reveal what is happening at that
moment and are subjective to interpretation. Often a CTG can look
positively awful, and yet after FBS the pH is fine - and how often have many of
us taken an emergency C/S to theatre because of a trace that was not reassuring
- to have a scream
