Forceps - there is no alternative?

Because forceps brain the boy turned irreversibly damaged. Why is this archaic instrument still used by doctors?

Having a baby should be the happiest moment of your life. But for an English Portogallo Emma and her partner Daniel Kutillo the birth of their son Xavier December 21 last year was the worst nightmare of all, they managed to survive. During birth, which took place in the district hospital in Scunthorpe, an obstetrician so zealous to forceps That unhappy 22-year-old Emma pulls back many times on the operating table. So much so that she had the bruises on the body.

Therefore, there was nothing to be surprised and that child also was damaged. All the baby was covered in blood when he finally learned to light. One eyeball he practically clambered out. Alas, the eye injury is not cost - forceps damaged skull, causing bleeding. And this in turn led to a brain damage .

During his 10 months Xavier suffered three operations on his left eye, in front of two surgical intervention. "Daniel was so horrified by what he saw, that was not even able to take his son in his arms in the operating room - crying Emma. - It is the first 7 months was afraid to approach him. Now Dan and will not hear of her second child. She says that the second time through a hell does not intend to take. We have already said that Xavier could soon be in a wheelchair. It is difficult at this stage to assess the full extent brain damage ".

How routine birth in one of the most developed countries of Europe of the 21st century could turn into a horror film? The answer to this one - forceps . About 35 thousand young Britons are still every year are born with this surgical know-how from the 18th century - one of every 20 newborns.

Ask most women in labor that they think about the forceps, and you'll hear a lot of horror stories. Let us put aside a lot of injuries, which are applied to children. Application forceps leading to post-traumatic stress in young mothers. Often develops and maieusiophobia - the strongest fear of childbirth, because of which the women refuse to even think about re pregnant.

So why forceps   They are still in the arsenal of physicians? Really, even with the current level of medical technology they did not appeared no alternative?

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