She died from an epidural?
MyBabeMaddie wrote: I was planning on getting an epidural until I read this http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9818616/
Now i might just try natural...
AlexsPajamaMama replied: All I can say is WOW! How scary is that! 
BAC'sMom replied: Very scary
mammag replied: Many that IS scarey. I'm not sure that I would have one again if I had another kid. The last two times it didn't work and the last time it only numbed the right side of my body. The stupid guy just said I must be laying more on that side but the nurses kept having me switch sides. I felt every bit of that delivery but then was numb (in my right leg only) for many hours after giving birth so they wouldn't let me get up to pee or anything. I was so frustrated!
You gotta wonder about some of the people working at hospitals. Sometimes you get lucky and get the good ones and sometimes...like in her case....you don't.
That is just soooo sad. Poor little guy will never know his mama. 
A&A'smommy replied: That absolulty breaks my heart!! I don't think I want to have another epidural even though it didn't work right for me anyway 
luvbug00 replied: this was on dateline or somthing last night . very sad but more and more frequent are hospital infections. 
amynicole21 replied: I watched that last night on Dateline. Very sad. There were tons of home videos shown that were taken on the way to the hospital, while in labor and after baby was born.
But imagine the number of epidurals done in a single day... The chance that something going wrong has to be one in thousands.
TheOaf66 replied: horrible hospital and I hope he wins that one and I work for a hospital...he should have stepped in faster than that while the epidural was going on
Boo&BugsMom replied: I had one, and I felt nothing when my son was born. My body usually works very well with anesthetics normally. It all depends on the person and how their body reacts. What a sad story though.
youngmomofone replied: That's so sad!!!! I dont want another one.
mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: Eww I shouldn't have read that. But I'm still going to take the chance since I had a wonderful epi experience with my first...but I'm sure I'll be watching more closely this time.
MyLuvBugs replied: God I can't even finish reading that article I'm crying so much. That poor family.
kimberley replied: that is so sad. stories like that are exactly why i chose to have Kaleigh at home. and people think home birth is dangerous haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
~~*Missi*~~ replied: "Chris and Julie’s family charge in a lawsuit her infection was the result of a “failure to maintain a sterile environment” by the hospital and the anesthesiologist. Chris recalls how busy the doctor was."From the article
All i can say from working in a hospital being from a long line of nurses (in my family) and having an epi myself.... keeping a sterile environment is hard and when others are in the room even harder.
Here in my hospital they have a policy that NO ONE can be in the room except the anesthesiologist and a anesthesiologist nurse.... which to me is yes crappy cause i know i handle needles umm lets say like a puss and my husband or mom could keep me more calm but in the end I am thankful for the policy cause they gown and drape, change the patients etc.... keeping with sterile environment. I have even seen some hospitals in the area if you get a epi at 5cm when the pain isn't so severe (it hurts but 10 is worse LOL) they will take you to a sterile room on the birthing floor......
Its a risk just like delivery is... weigh it and weigh it seriously but infections like this are rare.
My father had a similar issue when having a stint put into his heart. He was hospitalized for heart attack in the intensive care everything... gowns masks only family to visit... when getting stint somehow a "gram negative rod" pneumonia was pass into his blood system.. he was released from the hospital on a monday givin a clear health the stint was great etc... by friday he was back in ICU and on his death bed. He had the rarest form of pneumonia caused by a hospital born germ.... He lived we were lucky. the survival rate is only 50% (aeronumos hydrophilliac pneumonia (forgive the spelling almost 98% correct LOL).....
He was just the poor lucky one that day to get it.. In the end thou... now he would do it again all over because the outcome after surviving with the stint is much worse then the fate he would have without it.... so do LOTS of research girls, there are scary stories out there for everything but sometimes its just the crappy luck of the draw...
I am praying for this father and son that now have no wife and no mother... what a sad happy day all in one... so tragic...
IMHO thou it sounded like the doctor dropped the ball. she was having an issue with the first he should have NEVER pushed the second in my opinion not a doctor but I would have suggested alternatives for her at that point... it seems reading it that the infection started after check in but before epi and that just excelerated it or she was having a reaction of some sort. A headache after an epi is common but its seem like her case was "off" from the get go you know......
luvmykids replied: I'm sorry but IMO it should be required, anytime someone is sticking a needle into someone else, that they be sterile and not have just hung up their cell phone. And even more maddening that she didn't then get the antibiotic afterwards.
Huge tragedy for that family.
PrairieMom replied: I have said before that I was more scared of and Epidural than the actual pain of labor. stories like this one are the reason why.
That poor family.
CantWait replied: Unreal. It's terrible that the family will never really know what happened, and that little baby boy will never get to meet his mommy.
ashtonsmama replied: Scary, but NOT common. So don't let it freak you out Sarah!
Cece00 replied: Sad. So sad.
However, with the amt of epidurals happening every day, you can see the risk is pretty low. I'd still get one..in fact, I have to get one, for my csection.
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