After not being able to deliver the baby, Dr. St. Julian reportedly decided to perform a STAT Cesarean section at approximately 11:49 p.m. The baby's body and legs were then delivered at 12:11 a.m. and the baby's head was delivered vaginally.
Holy fuck, never mind. If I'm reading this right, this monster literally tore the baby's head off. I'm keeping my original post for posterity, but no, this goes far, far beyond negligence. The doctor must have an IQ of fucking forty.
Original post as follows:
I'm about 99% sure they mean an internal decapitation, which newborns are particularly susceptible to. It happens every so often when a baby gets stuck in the canal. Basically, a newborn lacks strength in the muscles and ligaments that hold your head on, so it's easy to pull their head right off the spine. Almost always, this results in the brain stem being severely damaged, which is immediate death.
It still requires quite a bit of negligence and/or stupidity though. This "doctor" was delivering a baby without knowing how much force you can apply to a newborn's head before it becomes dangerous. I would question whether she even showed up for class before they started putting lives in her hands.
I have never heard of a baby's head being ripped clean off before, and I suspect it would require inhuman strength to do so.
The Fox clip mentioned that the 20-year-old mother was a diabetic. From the press conference vid, she also appears to be very short and a stockier build, yet not a land whale.
I suspected before even watching the clip that the mother was either diabetic or developed gestational diabetes.
Increased blood sugars and resulting increased blood insulin levels leads to macrosomia (literally "big bodied" babies) that grow too big in their cage to fit out the escape hatch.
Taking the contrarian view, I do feel bad for the good doctor.
Every bad outcome in obstetrics is an unfathomable tragedy, but childbirth is inherently dangerous, especially with 2023 physiognomy.
There's a reason why mother and infant mortality was historically so high.
We like to think that we've come so far in making the process a lot safer. But anyone who has experience on both the bystander and provider side knows that the modern version of natural childbirth still involves tons of elbow grease and brute force from the obstetrician hands, especially when shit goes south.
When I witnessed the birth of my son I was shocked at how violent it was. It looked like my wife was the victim of a horrible crime. Little dude came out safe and the whole procedure went about as smoothly as it could have but even then it was a messy, messy process.
First baby, wife had been in labor for about 20 hours. Baby's heart rate was dropping, and everyone was getting very tense. The baby crowned but didn't move much further, and we were minutes away from an emergency c-section. There was fluid (and more), everywhere, wife was screaming and sweating, it was fucking brutal.
Baby comes out, wife is so out of it from the pain and exhaustion she had this 1000-yard stare for a couple of minutes before she snapped out of it (had refused all medicines). She was also bleeding quite badly from a tear when the baby came out.
In retrospect, it was a fairly typical delivery, baby was healthy, mom was healthy, we left the hospital on the usual schedule, etc.
Giving birth is quite literally a link to the human condition that is shared by all humans since the beginning.
I'm about 99% sure they mean an internal decapitation, which newborns are particularly susceptible to. It happens every so often when a baby gets stuck in the canal. Basically, a newborn lacks strength in the muscles and ligaments that hold your head on, so it's easy to pull their head right off the spine. Almost always, this results in the brain stem being severely damaged, which is immediate death.
Unfortunately not. The article stated that the head was delivered vaginally, the body via cesarean.
How tf?? Did Dr. Diversity just rip the head off while pulling it out of the mother?
EDIT:
Holy fuck, never mind. If I'm reading this right, this monster literally tore the baby's head off. I'm keeping my original post for posterity, but no, this goes far, far beyond negligence. The doctor must have an IQ of fucking forty.
Original post as follows:
I'm about 99% sure they mean an internal decapitation, which newborns are particularly susceptible to. It happens every so often when a baby gets stuck in the canal. Basically, a newborn lacks strength in the muscles and ligaments that hold your head on, so it's easy to pull their head right off the spine. Almost always, this results in the brain stem being severely damaged, which is immediate death.
It still requires quite a bit of negligence and/or stupidity though. This "doctor" was delivering a baby without knowing how much force you can apply to a newborn's head before it becomes dangerous. I would question whether she even showed up for class before they started putting lives in her hands.
I have never heard of a baby's head being ripped clean off before, and I suspect it would require inhuman strength to do so.
The Fox clip mentioned that the 20-year-old mother was a diabetic. From the press conference vid, she also appears to be very short and a stockier build, yet not a land whale.
I suspected before even watching the clip that the mother was either diabetic or developed gestational diabetes.
Increased blood sugars and resulting increased blood insulin levels leads to macrosomia (literally "big bodied" babies) that grow too big in their cage to fit out the escape hatch.
Taking the contrarian view, I do feel bad for the good doctor.
Every bad outcome in obstetrics is an unfathomable tragedy, but childbirth is inherently dangerous, especially with 2023 physiognomy.
There's a reason why mother and infant mortality was historically so high.
We like to think that we've come so far in making the process a lot safer. But anyone who has experience on both the bystander and provider side knows that the modern version of natural childbirth still involves tons of elbow grease and brute force from the obstetrician hands, especially when shit goes south.
When I witnessed the birth of my son I was shocked at how violent it was. It looked like my wife was the victim of a horrible crime. Little dude came out safe and the whole procedure went about as smoothly as it could have but even then it was a messy, messy process.
First baby, wife had been in labor for about 20 hours. Baby's heart rate was dropping, and everyone was getting very tense. The baby crowned but didn't move much further, and we were minutes away from an emergency c-section. There was fluid (and more), everywhere, wife was screaming and sweating, it was fucking brutal.
Baby comes out, wife is so out of it from the pain and exhaustion she had this 1000-yard stare for a couple of minutes before she snapped out of it (had refused all medicines). She was also bleeding quite badly from a tear when the baby came out.
In retrospect, it was a fairly typical delivery, baby was healthy, mom was healthy, we left the hospital on the usual schedule, etc.
Giving birth is quite literally a link to the human condition that is shared by all humans since the beginning.
There is a reason why men have evolved to get those instinctual rushes of "my child" love the moment they lay eyes on the little things.
Because if we didn't get it right then most would fucking bolt just from sheer disgust.
What a surprise: Men evolve to find thinner and longer women more attractive, diabeticwomanlets can't deliver babies very well
Unfortunately not. The article stated that the head was delivered vaginally, the body via cesarean.