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Reply To Topic Topic: Cesarean advised for potential shoulder dystocia reccurence
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Posted By Henci Goer, BA on 20 Oct 2008 12:50 AM

Phew! That's great news!

As for hands-and-knees as a birth position, if your doctor is not familiar with it, her saying that the McRoberts maneuver is better may just be human nature preferring the familiar to something unfamiliar. Were I in your position, I would politely insist that she get a copy of the study and go over it together with you. Start with the old sales technique of making a statement with which the person you want to convince cannot disagree. In this case it is, "I know that we both want the safest birth for this baby. I want to make sure that we have settled on the best option for a birth position given that I have had a problem before." 

-- Henci

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