United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

Tessie, my eyes popped open when I read your statment that you saw your midwives hands and FOREARMS as she attempted to pull the head off your baby. This is exactly what happened with us. Is this what they are teaching midwives to do, to use their forearms as forceps?

I'd love to hire a detective to do a backround search on this so-called DOCTOR and find the international bank accounts where she stores the money she was paid by the medical malpractice insurance companies to write these fictional pieces.

The editor's not got me super mad! You know we through an emotioinal roller coaster during my pregnancy due to an abnormal alpha fetal protien test. The told us about all the awful things that it could mean, but we were never once warned about the possiblity of BPI. If it is inevabitle that some kids are going to have BPI, why don't they warn you about it like they do birth defects? Why isn't in the baby books? Why isn't anyone but us warning expectant mothers of the possiblity? Sorry I will get off my soap box now. (I guess I am just preaching to the chior.

I have not yet read the aricle to which ya'll are referring to (can u tell I'm from TX?), but I just wanted to give my input on a comment that was made. Somebody mentioned "where is the teaching and who's warning expectant mothers of this". I know every of us at some point have had this same thought run across their mind ... " If I had only known.." After the delivery of my daughter, that thought tormented me day and night... " If I had only asked for a c- section...." My point of this is have any of you talked with the educatioin department of your local hospitals, to see if they would include a specific section to their Lamaze classes regarding things to look for or the definition of shoulder dystocia. I paid for lamaze classes when I was pregnant, and there was absolutley no teachings of this. Of course this angers me now after the fact. I have ofter thought of going back to the hospital where my daughter was delivered and asking and promoting the issues of every delviery is not easy and certain complications can and will occur. There was nothing easy about my labor and I had absolutley no idea that my baby could get stuck inside me.or that there could be life long consequences following it. I wish someone would have defined for me prolonged second stage labor, and what it means. I'm still clueless to the actual definition of that one. We cannot assume that our physicains are doing what is best for US! Anyways sorry this is kind of inconsistent, but I am still bitter regarding my own personal ignorance of everything that happened on March 10th, 2000. I wish I knew of way to educate more people on this. No, it doens't happen every time someone delivers their baby, but the value of that knowledge could be life preserving if needed. Thanks for listening and please let me know if any of you have contacted "labor educators" regarding Brachial plexus injuries.

thanks Laura and Addy. ... Also updating on her, we went and saw Dr. Nath last week and he does not want to see her again for 1 year !!!( yeah) she had mod-quad on oct 15th 2001 and is doing great!