When I first “cracked the code” on stabilizing and reversing prolapse, and wrote and published Saving the Whole Woman, I set up this forum. While I had finally gotten my own severe uterine prolapse under control with the knowledge I had gained, I didn’t actually know if I could teach other women to do for themselves what I had done for my condition.
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Christine
May 4, 2006 - 8:40am
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Thanks so much for sharing
Thanks so much for sharing your story, gagetgirl. I have no idea why the terms fully dilated and open didn't mean the same thing in your case. I do know that for a while ob's were trying to even further manage labor by actually cutting the uterus as you describe. The morbid practice was abandoned shortly after it began.
Your story is a wonderful example of the strength of natural female design.
Christine
UKmummy
May 4, 2006 - 9:37am
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Thank you too
Thank you too Gadgetgirl,
your love for your child glows through cyberspace and certainly reminds me to always be grateful for everything that I have! Sending you lots of hugs.
Michelle xxx
P.S I don't see how it could be that you were "fully dilated" but your cervix wasn't open either?
louiseds
May 6, 2006 - 5:22am
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prolapse, but have a perfect pelvic floor
Hi Gadgetgirl
Oh my goodness, what an horrific childbirth experience, and how amazingly far you have come. I can see how much you will have ahead of you, as you unravel the circumstances of your labour and Dakota's birth, as I hope you will.
No woman or family should have to suffer what you have suffered, today, in Australia. And yet you seem to have risen above it and recovered yourself to a point that you can encourage others to perservere when faced with great difficulty. You're a spunky young lady, and what a lucky boy Dakota is to have you as his Mum. You will be able to teach him so much from the heart about toughness and perserverence.
The story about your being fully dilated, yet your cervix not being able to open sounds like a fragment of the story. I imagine that you just wanted to get on and get feeding established and look after Dakota in hospital, and sort out all the stuff about your body later, and understandably so.
There will be a reason why you were told what you were told, and no doubt the hospital concerned will be hoping like hell that you won't come back and ask questions. I hope that, in time, you will, for your own sake and the sake of other mothers. The process of finding out will probably be very unpleasant for all concerned and may take some time, and my thoughts are with you as you consider the prospect of taking on the health system to get some answers.
Though I hesitate to mention it, make sure you get good legal advice before you even begin to ask questions of the doctors and hospitals, as it will be important to do things in the right order, and approach the right people, so you don't get messed around by a process that will possibly attempt to put you off finding out what you need to find out. Don't be put off. It may be that nobody was negligent, and that your labour was handled in the best way possible, but maybe not. Even if it was the former, I believe that you have the right to know the whole story. Apart from anything, there may be legitimate medical reasons later in life for your knowing exactly what happened, especially if you have another baby at some point.
Cheers
Louise
Jocelyn
May 7, 2006 - 7:46am
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Aussie mum too
Hi Gadgetgirl, You have found in your child an inner strength that you thought you never had, well done. I had a baby 6weeks ago and only found this site three weeks ago after discovering I had prolapse after a shower one night. NOT HAPPY JAN I can assure you. But also when I went to see my family GP, after a ER exam and a flimsy gyno appointment, My doctor told me that my pelvic floor was not stretched and looked good. Unfortunately to date I still have a lovley bulge in my vagina that doesn't want to go but am seeing another gyno tomorrow. Anyway after what you have been through my ordeal is just a walk in the park.Your positive outlook is great even though the road to get where you are has been hard best of luck.