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  • 25-03-2011 10:44am
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    harr
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    hi
    A quick question was anybody heard of a baby geting cut during a section?We were in visiting a friend who had a baby by section on tuesday and the little girl had got a cut that required 2 stitch's in the side of her head,we were quiet shocked by this as my wife is due to have her section in 4 weeks time and we nerver heard of this before,a couple of inches lower and she could have been scared for life or he could of got her eye :eek: .Is this a common thing to happen.The nurses and doctors are all saying that it quiet a common thing to happen but i am unsure if this true.


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    metrovelvet
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    harr wrote: »
    hi
    A quick question was anybody heard of a baby geting cut during a section?We were in visiting a friend who had a baby by section on tuesday and the little girl had got a cut that required 2 stitch's in the side of her head,we were quiet shocked by this as my wife is due to have her section in 4 weeks time and we nerver heard of this before,a couple of inches lower and she could have been scared for life or he could of got her eye :eek: .Is this a common thing to happen.The nurses and doctors are all saying that it quiet a common thing to happen but i am unsure if this true.

    I don't think its a common thing to happen, but it's one of the risks. Its surgery after all.


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    January
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    Wouldn't say it was common but it is one of the associated risks with c sections. If you're worried, speak to the consultant.


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    harr
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    not overly worried about it just a bit shocked to think that it could happen one of the senior nurses said she has only seen it on 2 other occasions and both times it was on the baby's bottom.


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    January
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    harr wrote: »
    not overly worried about it just a bit shocked to think that it could happen one of the senior nurses said she has only seen it on 2 other occasions and both times it was on the baby's bottom.

    Baby was possibly breech or transverse if it was on the bottom! They're using a scalpel to cut through the abdomen, it's possible if the babies head is pushing off the womb that it could get nicked.


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    harr
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    that's exactly what the nurse said to them,the babys head was pressing up against the stomach and when doctor cut in the baby got a nick


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    silja
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    Happened to a lady who was on the Holles Street ward with me, her baby got a cut at the back of the head, superficial only but on such a small baby it still looked bad. A friend of mine (not from Ireland, here in the USA)'s baby got cut badly and required plastic surgery later, but that is extremely rare.


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