hello we are the doctors bjorkman i'm sarah i'm a board-certified ob gyn and first-time mom
i'm kurt i'm a board-certified pediatrician and this week we're going to do something a
little different we have poured ourselves a glass of wine and we are going to do
a doctor's react to one of my favorite shows and one of my least favorite things in the world
ah selling sunset christine's birth story let's get into it right now
the last time i walked on one of these my heel got stuck in the woods like i kept going my shoes
so we had balloons at our house but i think that's about the only thing that
matched this like right definitely weren't getting visitors yet i mean visitors is absolutely a
personal decision but when you're ready for that the one thing i will say is avoiding
large crowds trying to keep baby healthy lots of hand washing forever it's got a whole baby
you know close friends and families are okay make sure people have flu vaccine vaccinated for
pertussis whooping cough are the biggest things to keep babies safe in this age group hi guys hi i'm
so happy to see you hi so happy to be here oh my gosh i forget how tiny they are look how tiny you
are too yeah you're so sweet i was doing pilates and yoga standing on my head doing inversions up
until i pretty much gave birth so i was doing my best to just you know stay in shape gotta
love that yes christine talking about exercise and pregnancy and being fit yeah we did a video
about this about a year ago all about exercise and pregnancy being one of the best things you can do
for you and baby during pregnancy yeah but there's sometimes this like myth that you shouldn't
exercise or you can't and so love seeing a celebrity talking about the importance of fitness
i'd be healthy and then i was like ah i'll get a liposuction after if i need to wow
hi say hi oh my gosh so good to see you guys i'm talking about looking great look at you i'm so
tired there is the first thing i really relate to i am so tired um it's so weird seeing you with a
baby i know right isn't that crazy i've officially been a mom for a few days and i'm surprisingly
feeling officially been a mom for a few days let's talk about realistic expectations for
a postpartum mom three days out this is not it have you showered by then uh
yeah unclear um i feel like at the three day mark i was i had silverettes taped to
my nipples i was wearing gray sweatpants around the house we hadn't slept much and we were just
trying to get the baby to latch or sleep or stop crying yeah two weeks in we were like i went to
work and came home and you were dehydrated and malnourished so this is not the normal to be
this put together this is not normal but you know props to her yeah i'm surprisingly feeling good
the baby's doing amazing he's the perfect little angel and i couldn't be happier perfect angel i'm
so happy for you yeah so what's been going on at the office like yeah i mean it's been nice
jason uh organized this group dinner that we're gonna have and i'm super excited because it's like
my first dinner it's gonna be fun i wonder how that's gonna go every time there's a dinner party
there's always some drama i wish i could have but let me know how that goes we'll report back
yeah so how did they go how was it the uh everything oh my gosh so so we are really gonna
get into the birth story right now i'm laying in bed and i'm like turn over to my side and it was
like a cirque du soleil performance water balloon boost through my vagina i was like what
is this oh my god and i stood up i was like oh my god my water just broke so there
is a real life description of what it feels like to have your water break it can be this
sudden spontaneous thing you're laying in bed you are you know out and about doing things
um it can be a little startling either during with contractions or sometimes even before
yeah it doesn't sound like she was in labor when this happened kind of just that kicked it off for
her i was nine centimeters dilated the second i walked into the room and then they're like
so first-time mom wouldn't say that that is typical um to have your water break and boom
get to the hospital and be nine centimeters that is not the usual um a bit longer a bit more work
yeah but everybody's different no 10 10. we got it that's when you pull dilated and i just see
my legs flying in the air and then he was coming out sideways and his umbilical cord was wrapped
around him so so at this point the first time i'm watching this i'm just like christine is a little
extra and certainly has a flare for the dramatic um you know legs flying everywhere 10 centimeters
when a patient shows up to the labor floor fully dilated it can be a little bit wild you're just
like somebody get gloves on we need to catch this baby um so definitely she describes a
little bit of chaos and that's understandable babies don't come out sideways um but the cord
could potentially immediately and that can cause some heart rate dipping and so we're
i'm still with her here so was the baby yeah they said his heart rate's going down all i
hear is emergency c-section let's go let's go let's go let's go with no epidural oh my god
so there will there always is generally some kind of pain control for a c-section of any kind just
so they did it without poor christian was probably some kind he was absolutely freaking out and then
when we were doing the emergency c-section my heart rate was going down the baby's heart rate
was going down oh my god and then um one of the nurses went up to christian was like you need to
make a priority right now you have to choose one shut up he was like both you need like both wow so
i'm an ob gyn that would absolutely never ever happen i would never say you have to choose mom
or baby there is like in this situation never in a million years you are going to taking care of
mom takes care of baby correct taking care of baby takes care of mom yep like this is
that the answer is always both right of course it's always both
um so that was that's a little bit flair for the dramatic here
i just remember
i just remember before i went under the anesthesia hearing that the baby's heart rate was going down
and they were afraid it was gonna stop that's the last thing i heard um
until i woke up so it was so and then she said you know i've been kind of rolling my eyes at some of
this but then christine said and then i woke up and right there i knew that yes she absolutely had
a c-section it was an emergency because if she was waking up that means she had general anesthesia
where they intubated her they put her to sleep and she actually woke up and the only time that that
is gonna happen for a c-section if it is if it is a real emergency um for a c-section we usually
like to do a spinal or an epidural we talked about different pain management options for labor but
generally anesthesia for a c-section sucks because mom is asleep and we want you to be awake we want
you to meet your baby we want to do skin-to-skin as soon as that um little babe is out and so this
right here said it was wild baby's heart rate was dropping it was a true emergency which is why it's
so good that you guys are so good at getting the baby out safely so fast yep yep so like a
minute two minutes yeah in an emergency your ob gyn can get that baby out in 60 seconds so um
poor christine it's a nightmare it's really nice
are you hungry i'm just gonna go feed him really quick so something to think about here babies are
really needy it is totally normal for them to need to eat often if you have a new baby they
need to eat often if they are fussing feed them this could be every 30 minutes every hour cluster
feeding is a normal thing this is baby getting the feed they need to grow and to help your milk
come in or if they're formula fed just helping them grow with their stomachs start to expand
and get used to frequent feeds yeah all right then i'll be right back okay okay are you hungry
here come here [ __ ] i need a drink let's test me out okay i'm gonna open the bottle did i say i
wanted to have another baby one day i just changed my mind wow i guess we're thankful to say that you
know all three of us were able to come home from the hospital and we're just counting our blessings
each and every day so shout out right here to all the ob gyns out there who are taking amazing
care of moms and babies as an ob gyn you always have two patients that you are responsible for
mom and baby and obese are out there saving lives every day so cheers um this is also to
you kind of goes to the point of why it's so important to have your baby born in a place
that's gonna be safe if things go awry yes women have been giving birth in fields and
yeah outside of hospitals for thousands of years but dangerous things like this happen and can cost
the life of a baby or a mom potentially yep am i sleeping now i'm i'm in shock with your story
yeah it was it was insanity i wake up and i just remember someone with a needle that was this long
performing a tap block on my abdomen what's that mean i guess it's for the pain
yeah yeah so a tap block tap transversus abdominus plane um and it is a long needle
you inject um kind of a numbing ana medicine for a nerve block to kind of block those pain signals
from that c-section pain coverage for kind of the next 18-24 hours after that c-section
for your mom and that recovery phase and that was really a great move by her anesthesia team
because that's one of the other kind of bummer things about general anesthesia is it can moms
can be in a lot more pain because they don't have that epidural or that spinal that has this long
lasting kind of pain coverage so doing a tap block was a really um great move by the anesthesia team
but i'm like what is going on you haven't even at this time no i couldn't even hold my baby
like i couldn't hold him and this just goes to like sometimes babies are sick sometimes
babies need to go to the neonatal icu unit they need to go get that extra care which is so tough
for parents and even on baby too to not have some of that valuable skin to skin bonding period but
in this case it was for the benefit of that baby to make sure that they were going to be safe yeah
because i couldn't you know
it's like this is a nightmare for mom are you kidding me life is so short and you know it's
an it's this is a nightmare um you know it sounds like everything happened really fast you know her
water broke she came to the hospital she was 10 centimeters she tried to push baby's heart dropped
the next thing she knows she's being put to sleep and she wakes up and she can't her baby's not
there and she hasn't held her baby and like this is awful um and i think there is a lot of birth
trauma that doesn't get talked about and doesn't get healed from and it's really important if you
have something happen like this that you debrief with your ob gyn and your partner is involved and
the people who are there are are we talk to them and you work on processing that because
even like her partner having to having been asked like choose mom or baby with the trauma
of that situation both for mom and partner is something that is good to debrief as yeah a
team and then also with your medical provider yeah i can't imagine going through that yeah
short and you never know like what tomorrow brings and so i was just like i'm not gonna
worry about dumb [ __ ] anymore well you will have to watch the rest of the season to find out if
that is true um but so that was christine's birth story um sounds like it was a wild ride uh
i know i certainly enjoyed watching it um kurt i won't catch the next episode i promise
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