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Old 07-17-2003, 11:59 AM   #7 (permalink)
spiritwoman
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I feel for you if you experienced this kind of medical emergency or if someone you know did.

However, there are all kinds of sound medical reasons for a women hemorraging before, during and after childbirth. You are wasting your money on legal fees unless there was someone in that Labor and Delivery Room that can testify the doc screwed up. The placenta is one mass of blood vessels and veins. It secures itself to the wall of the uterus so that nutrients and waste can travel back and forth between mother and child. Sometime the placenta does not attach itself to a secure place in the uterus. Sometimes it attaches right by the cervix where it cannot get proper support. There are a number of conditions, abrupto placentae, placenta previa to name two where the placenta prematurely ruptures or separates from the uterus. These are medical emergencies! In the old days women would bleed to death with placenta previa.

So, I'm just trying to illustrate that there are all sorts of medical reasons why a woman will hemorrage (not to mention cysts, polyps, tumors) that don't necessarily point to malpractice.
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