Modern Medicine

Yesterday I was the nurse assigned to receive two babies.

The first one in the morning was a to a woman who was scheduled for a cesarean section because of breech presentation. When the incision was made and the presenting part removed, it was discovered the baby was vertex - not breech.

Then, in the afternoon, I was assigned to receive a baby whose mother had labored and finally got to full dilatation, only to discover that the baby was breech. So, she was sectioned as well.

If, in this day and age, doctors cannot utilize modern technology or good old fashioned leopold maneuvers in order to correctly diagnose breech deliveries and avoid unnecessary sections and unnecessary laboring (when they refuse to deliver breech), then it is a sad situation, indeed, in obstetrics today.