tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592834453105655541.post9037053219407508301..comments2009-05-27T12:24:03.148-05:00Dean Dooleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06613295595549641565Editor@IckyPeople.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592834453105655541.post-48614421399157939802009-02-23T23:16:00.000-06:002009-02-23T23:16:00.000-06:00Saying that leaking fluid requires immediate hospitalization is like saying a bloody nose requires a transfusion! A near-term woman can leak urine which looks like amniotic fluid and because of the baby compressing the bladder and the urethra it may not feel like a urine leak. Also, water doesn't always break like a balloon bursting but can dribble out it fits and spurts for hours while a woman suffers through cramp-like contractions for hours, even days. The doctor will finally artificially break the amniotic sac as a way of inducing labor. Failing that to move things along, drugs are used.<BR/><BR/>Since you are not Palin's doctor or a member of her staff or family she spoke to, you have no idea how vigorous her leak was. From what I've read, she didn't excuse herself to go to the restroom during that gathering. I think it's fair to say that leak wasn't enough to fill a sanitary napkin in that time. That would make her leak more of a slow drip. If she was losing fluid that slowly there was no iminent danger to her or her baby. If she wasn't actively having contractions she wasn't in labor and there was no reason she couldn't fly home.<BR/><BR/>I had a friend who flew back to Tulsa, OK from China then drove two hours home to Missouri. She went home, showered and changed then packed her bag to go to the hospital and STILL was almost two more days having her baby. Her doctor advised her to catch the next flight home because she had intermitent leaking but not to panic, even if she had the odd contraction, because she wasn't in danger of having the baby in the nexy 24 hours. So it's possible Palin's doctor Okayed her schedule.rooamihttp://openid.aol.com/rooaminoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592834453105655541.post-16976808983036384862008-11-11T23:02:00.000-06:002008-11-11T23:02:00.000-06:00We did not support McCain/Palin. However, I am a huge supporter of a woman being in charge of her own body. Mrs. Palin knew her body and what it was capable of, obviously. Fluid leaking does put a woman at increased risk of infection---in a hospital setting where there are an abundance of bacteria and germs. Outside of a hospital, it is ridiculous to suggest that a woman is at increased risk simply because she's experiencing some fluid leakage.<BR/><BR/>Furthermore, I believe that women rushing to hospitals in early labor causes more problems than it prevents. The infant mortality rate of newborn babies in the US is needlessly high. The over-use of hospital interventions and the fact that pregnancy is treated like an emergency or disease is what gives us all the impression that childbirth is dangerous. Women need to learn to know and trust their own bodies.Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05052198073918578036noreply@blogger.com