[daughterofthenight]

personally, if it were me, i would choose to deliver my whole baby vaginally and hold my child for a while even though he or she had died. i would need this in order to say good bye. but that is just me.

it still hurts that my grandson was not aborted intact so i could see and hold him and say good bye. but i don't think planned parenthood offered this and i'm not certain that my DiL was not capable of handling it.

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[collaredgirl65]

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by Sharon. ↗

Destructive delivery – also known as embryotomy – is used to deliver a dead fetus vaginally in a case of IUFD ( intra uterine fetal death).

It implies – as the word says – some sort of destroying or taking the fetus apart to facilitate delivery and protect the life of the mother.

There are in principle three acknowledged types of embryotomy:

1) Craniotomy – perforation of the skull and emptying the head of brain tissue so that the head collapses. That is used when the fetus presents with the head or in a case of retained head in a breech.

2) Decapitation – cutting the neck and separating the head from the truncus. That is used in a transverse presentation with following version and extraction on a foot (or both feet), as well as in the rare cases of locked twins.

3) Evisceration – perforation of the truncus (chest or abdomen) with removal of all internal organs so that the body collapses and a version and extraction can be done without the risk of rupturing the uterus. Used when decapitation is not possible in a transverse presentation

The craniotomy technique is shown below:

See evisceration technique here:
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...ad-baby-76471/

I think there are two babies there. One of the faces looks fine. Then, the next one, I guess, is the deflated head with the bloody face. I am so grateful our family has mostly healthy babies. Some descendents didn't do so well.