EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kajira]

Kaj

this was not meant to be focused on your case as everyone is different and I am truly saddened by your loss. I do know what it is like.

It was just a general statement that is is frustrating how people love to "doctor bash" when things don't turn out as hoped.

I LOVE my family doctor. LOVE LOVE LOVE her.

I love my high risk specialist, even if we don't see eye to eye on repeat c-sections vs. vbac. I also love my fertility doctor

I just like being able to pick doctors, who listen and don't treat everyone like a statistic and help their patients get the kind of care they need, and not just what they feel like doing because its' "how they do it." even when it's not in the best interest of patient or babies.

I don't doctor bash often.... but i've had good doctors, great doctors, and really, really bad doctors. You just don't tend to hear people tallk about the awesome doctors, because bad doctors do a lot of damage to people.

 

[kajira]

Every other doctor, said they'd have let the babies be born vaginally, because of the circumstances. He broke my water at 21 weeks, on accident. So baby A came out - but they MIGHT have been able to buy baby B, more time, had they been able to stop my labor after baby A came out.

Based on the doctors I talked too, at the hospital where fire ant works, actually... believe me, they would have handled it *very* differently. I don't believe in sueing - but this is the same doctor who broke my water, was the only doctor on call, refused to transfer me, and baby A was mostly out, and pushed baby A all the way back in, to pull him out the other way. They also gave me ketamine during my c-section, after they were told NOT too.

The only thing he did that was right, was the type of incision, and repair, so I could be a qualified vbac. Which every doctor also says he shouldn't have done, since it was "so unsafe" for babies. ^.^

It was my body, my choice, at 24 weeks, I would have rather risked vaginal delivery, since their survival rate was so low to begin with, rather then a super invasieve surgery... and had I consented to just "letting them die" with no nicu team, he'd have allowed it... but since I wanted him to call the nicu team, he put me between a rock and hard place. I couldn't get help unless I signed the paperwork.

I HAD no choice - believe me. Had I been at ANY other hospital, I would have been allowed to make different choice - I wanted my babies saved, and chose to make a decision that goes against everything I believed in, to have it happen.

For what it's worth, when I wanted a ultrasound, of my cervix, while pregnant with my twins - because I had a history of a short cervix in a prior birth, he told me and I quote "I trust my fingers, more than ultrasounds, if you want to be my patient, you'll have to consent to let me check you the old fashioned way." When I told him I wasn't really okay with that, he told me "good luck finding any other local doctor who will take on twins then."

No other doctor here does twins. I had a midwife for the birth I was talking too - because I wanted to do a vaginal homebirth with twins. I prefer midwifery care.

For what it's worth, my husband delivered our vbac, because I was so scared of going to the hospital, I waited too long.

Also - my first hospital birth? They almost killed me in a teaching hospital because of a couple small errors during the labor process, because they induced me.

So, my fears are justifiable, and I still see high risk specialists, follow my doctors orders I trust, and it's why I travel 6+ hours round trip, to see doctors who aren't crap.

Also - my son that died in the nicu - it was human error that caused his death. It could have been avoided, even the attending apologized to me repeatedly about how he fell through the cracks.... but you know what? That's a flaw in the system. That's not one individual person's fault, and while I talk about how mistakes led up to his death, I don't "blame" anyone specifically.

It took me a couple years before I could even openly talk about all of this, because of the trauma it caused. I had PTSD style flash backs due to the ketamine during the c-section, I couldn't go near the hospital, or the doctor with out a panic attacking and feeling like I was going to die.
So - talking about it is helpful now that the initial trauma has been worked through enough to discuss it openly.

 

[Phage]

I love this quote.
The older I get the truer it is.

 

[10AcreChick]

All 9 eggs hatched! Thats a 100% hatch! Started hatching at 2 am and finished by 10 am! I wish i had the cool emojis on my phone, i would put that one that runs back and forth, but I just have this:

. So exciting! My awesome hubby made an awesome bator and now I have awesome chicks! On to the next hatch!

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

All 9 eggs hatched! Thats a 100% hatch! Started hatching at 2 am and finished by 10 am! I wish i had the cool emojis on my phone, i would put that one that runs back and forth, but I just have this:

. So exciting! My awesome hubby made an awesome bator and now I have awesome chicks! On to the next hatch!

You can do it, jus type:
: weee with out the space between the : and the weee

 

[10AcreChick]

All 9 eggs hatched! Thats a 100% hatch! Started hatching at 2 am and finished by 10 am! I wish i had the cool emojis on my phone, i would put that one that runs back and forth, but I just have this:

. So exciting! My awesome hubby made an awesome bator and now I have awesome chicks! On to the next hatch!

You can do it, jus type:
: weee with out the space between the : and the weee

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[Pensmaster]

All 9 eggs hatched! Thats a 100% hatch! Started hatching at 2 am and finished by 10 am! I wish i had the cool emojis on my phone, i would put that one that runs back and forth, but I just have this:

. So exciting! My awesome hubby made an awesome bator and now I have awesome chicks! On to the next hatch!

Aweome and congratulations.

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[DwayneNLiz]

@Phage that is a great one

and congratulations @10AcreChick !!!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

a baby passed.after a week of feeding every two hours.don't know what happened was fine and eating yesterday.was the runt so I guess was just too week

 

[DwayneNLiz]

a baby passed.after a week of feeding every two hours.don't know what happened was fine and eating yesterday.was the runt so I guess was just too week

very sorry, sometimes they just dont thrive