Okay, Now I Going To Cuss!!

I usually don’t start an article by cussing, but “fu#k that!!” A British consultant gynaecologist could lose her medical license for decapitating an unborn baby in the womb, while she was carrying out a delivery for a 30-year-old mother in 2014. According to British media reports, Dr Laxman should have performed an emergency Cesarean section, as the premature infant was in a breech position, but instead allegedly went against given advice and attempted to deliver the baby naturally, telling the mom to push while the baby’s legs were being pulled. The mother, known only as Patient A during Thursday’s (May 10) hearing by the British Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester, was told to push while traction was applied to the baby’s legs and as a result of this, the infant’s legs, arms and torso became detached from the head. According to The Telegraph, the mother’s water had broken early at 25 weeks and upon examination, her unborn baby was found to have a prolapsed cord. The infant was in a breech position, while the mother’s cervix was around 2cm to 3cm dilated. Labor begins when a woman’s cervix is fully dilated to 10 centimeters. According to one newspaper account;

“I was not given gas and air – I was in pain. I had the doctors putting their hands inside me and I had them pushing on my stomach and then pulling me down. I tried to get off the bed but they pulled me back three times and just said they had to get the baby out. They twice tried to cut my cervix and nobody told me they were going to do it. There was no anesthetic. I said to them ‘it doesn’t feel right, stop it, what’s going on, I don’t want to do it’, but nobody responded to me in any way.”

Confronting the hearing examiners, the patient said, “I would never use the word stillborn. He was not stillborn, he was decapitated.” The “doctor,” didn’t even have the courtesy to address the woman whose child she killed, instead asking her attorney to say, “Dr Laxman has asked me to say she is so very sorry and deeply saddened for the outcome of your baby. She knows that no amount of words can or will soften your pain but she is hoping that knowing that what she was trying to do was her very best to deliver your baby quickly and sufficiently and she had best intentions at heart.”  

Two other doctors later carried out a Cesarean section to remove the baby’s head. It was reattached to his body, so that his mother could hold him to say goodbye. If that don’t make you want to cuss, I don’t know what will.