Baby died after forceps delivery.

[Lionheart]

A Texas couple blames a botched forceps delivery for their newborn daughter’s death a few days after her Dec. 28 birth. According to the parents, newborn Olivia Coats’ skull was crushed during her birth when the doctor struggled to deliver the baby using forceps. The family reportedly plans to sue their obstetrician, Dr. George T. Backardjiev, according to the National Monitor.





"We're not mad at the hospital, this is not their fault. It is one man's fault," Angie Coats, Olivia Coats’ grandmother, told ABC News. "We only want justice for Olivia; we want the person responsible, which is the doctor. We don't want the hospital being shunned."

Angie Coats told ABC News that her daughter-in-law had a “normal, healthy pregnancy,” but that the couple had requested a C-section delivery because of the baby’s size. Olivia weighed nearly 8 pounds and was 22 inches long at birth.

Backardjiev, however, refused to perform a C-section, telling the mother, 24-year-old Rachel Melancon, that she would have a scar afterwards. Instead, the doctor used forceps to help deliver the baby. Angie Coats told reporters that the doctor struggled with the forceps, and “even put his foot on the bed” to try and pull the baby out.

"He was turning and twisting and she would never come out,” she recalled. “He put the forceps one way and the other. When he touched the top and side of the skull, we heard a pop, like clay cracking in pottery and heard her skull crush."

The medical staff assured Melancon and her fiance, 25-year-old Allen Coats, that their baby was alive. Olivia Coats was swiftly transferred to Children’s Memorial Harmann Hospital in Houston, where the parents learned that their daughter had suffered several skull fractures. Olivia Coats died on Jan. 2.

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[Lionheart]

How many of you here were delivered with the assistance of forceps???

 

[gingerlyn]

--- delete --- wrong comment
very sorry

 

[Lionheart]

For Rachel Melancon her first pregnancy was a dream.

Her and her fiancé Allen Coats excited awaited the Christmas Day birth of their baby.

As the pregnancy progressed they started to become concerned about the size of the baby.

Rachel is petite – pre-pregnancy weighing just over 40 kilograms and under 150cm tall.

They started to ask their obstetrician about the possibility of a caesarean. The doctor refused.

“Rachel had a normal, healthy pregnancy and the day she went in to see if she could be induced, it was already after Christmas,” her Mother -in-Law told told ABCNews.com.

“The baby was so gigantic inside of her. She asked, ‘Can you please give me a C-section? This baby isn’t coming out of me.’”

Rachel and Alan, from Southeast Texas in the US continued to ask. They say they were repeatedly denied the procedure.

ABCNews.com report that the obstetrician, Dr. George T. Backardjiev, said, ‘No, you don’t want a C-section. You’ll have a scar”

Her mother-in-law Angie Coats, who was present at the birth, said, “during her delivery, the baby’s heart rate kept going up. “

He said, ‘One more hour, one more hour.’ Her water broke, but it was 18 hours until the delivery. [Rachel] was running a 103 fever… Five hours passed, then he came in and she started to push. But she was so worn out and the baby wasn’t even in the birth canal.”

Coats alleges that the baby was face up and the obstetrician tried unsuccessfully to turn her with his hands.

“When he couldn’t do that, he took the small forceps to try to pull the baby out. He kept going and even put his foot up on the bed trying to pull,” she said.

“He was turning and twisting and she would never come out. He put the forceps one way and the other. When he touched the top and side of the skull, we heard a pop, like clay cracking in pottery and heard her skull crush.”

In a post on their Facebook page Rachel Melancon claimed Olivia was then left in the birth canal while the doctor stitched her up before she could have the emergency C-section.

‘I felt her pulled out of me and the room was silent. No crying baby and they told Allen to leave the room. That’s the last I remember before waking up to my baby girl lifeless,’ she wrote.

When the tiny baby was delivered she needed medical intervention as she couldn’t breath. Olivia was rushed to a different hospital, where her parents were told that she had suffered numerous fractures.

On January 2, after five days, her life support was turned off.

Olivia Marie Coats died surrounded by her family.

“We’re not mad at hospital, this is not their fault. It is one man’s fault,” Angie Coats, the baby’s grandmother told ABCNews.com. “We only want justice for Olivia; we want the person responsible, which is the doctor. We don’t want the hospital being shunned. The hospital is great. The nurses were wonderful. It’s not their fault.”

The couple are now suing their obstetrician, claiming the forceps delivery caused her brain damage and numerous fractures. They plead “forceps killed our baby.”

 

[Lionheart]

dear brothers and sisters

Forcep delivery is done when doctor tries to minimize the cut.

so by reducing an inch or few inches, doctor uses forcep to suck out the baby.

forcep delivery is so brutal and so butchery. it should be banned. the risk of injury to the baby is very high - more so with incompetent and inexperienced doctors. it is scary indeed! some surgeons are really butchers!

 

[gingerlyn]

very sorry,
my comment is called ventouse delivery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventouse

it is different from forcep delivery

forcep delivery is so brutal and so butchery. it should be banned. the risk of injury to the baby is very high - more so with incompetent and inexperienced doctors. it is scary indeed! some surgeons are really butchers!

 

[Lionheart]

The baby was big and the mother was small . The mother asked for a C Section and was refused. OMG!! What a bloody fatal mess!!!

 

[Lionheart]

I must say we have a high standard of obstetric care in Singapore.

 

[gingerlyn]

if you minus off IVF mix up and also couples who brought the wrong infant home from KKH

I must say we have a high standard of obstetric care in Singapore.

 

[JossSticksCandleWax]

Forceps have many uses. Let me illustrate.

Not too long ago, kopisai inserted a large cucumber into his anus, as it is his habit to do so. Unfortunately, the cucumber got stuck. Resultantly, forceps was shoved into his kar chng at the A&E of a local hospital to try to salvage the embarrassing accident.

Unfortunately for the doctor-in-charge, kopisai insisted that the forceps remain in his anus for a while. kopisai reasoned that the cold metal of the forceps was a welcomed pleasure for his stimulation-starved anus. kopisai later on offered to pay the doctor if the kind physician could simulate ass-fucking by shoving the forceps in-and-out of kopisai's kar chng.

When the doctor agreed, lionheart, length, theblackhole, Extremist, and others all queued up outside the A&E room, waiting for their turns.

 

[Lionheart]

Forceps have many uses. Let me illustrate.

Not too long ago, kopisai inserted a large cucumber into his anus, as it is his habit to do so. Unfortunately, the cucumber got stuck. Resultantly, forceps was shoved into his kar chng at the A&E of a local hospital to try to salvage the embarrassing accident.

Unfortunately for the doctor-in-charge, kopisai insisted that the forceps remain in his anus for a while. kopisai reasoned that the cold metal of the forceps was a welcomed pleasure for his stimulation-starved anus. kopisai later on offered to pay the doctor if the kind physician could simulate ass-fucking by shoving the forceps in-and-out of kopisai's kar chng.

When the doctor agreed, lionheart, length, theblackhole, Extremist, and others all queued up outside the A&E room, waiting for their turns.

you are more sick than i thought. better go see doctor. there is still a glimmer of hope.