Fact Checking Fail

[second_banana]

Dear LOST,

in the 1970's and 1980s an unexpected breech presentation (babies coming out ass first) was not call for an immediate c-section. I know it's considered SOP now, when doctor's aren't being taught how to help breech babes come out on their own, but on a REMOTE OUTPOST where I'm gathering MAJOR ABDOMINAL SURGERY isn't routine (if they send them off the island to pop out a kid do you really think they perform appendectomies there?) there is no fucking reason for a breech breach babe to be a c-sec unless there is a prolapsed cord or other major issue.

No love,
Susan

Comments

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

*waves hand* I was an unexpected breech, in 1973. They were going to do a last-minute c-section but then my mom's labor sped up too fast for that and out I came. :)

[second-banana.livejournal.com]

It certainly varied by location and doc, but in a place where there was no surgeon? Even most paramedics were trained with what to do for a breech.

I was an unexpected breech in the 80s. Yay butt first babies!

[heartofslash.livejournal.com]

*ogles your butt first*

(Then your bosom.)

Somebody really must do some sort of study on irregular births and the incidence of slashiness. Really.

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

My mom always suggested that I was making it very clear what I thought of the world, on my entrance into it. ;)

[heartofslash.livejournal.com]

I always knew there was something weird about you...

(Says the twin with the heart defect and the almost-dead brother...)

Us weirdos gotta stick together!

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

I can think of all kinds of sticky ways the three of us could fit together. ;)