“At 28 weeks..... definitely some other problem involved. What we have here is a doctor making an heroic effort that didn’t work.”
There’s way more to this story! At 28 weeks, with an abdomen bigger than it’s head!!! And obviously, if the doctor couldn’t get the baby out of the birth canal, his only choice is to try to get it back in the uterus and do a C-Section. If lives are at risk, tough luck if the sedation/anesthesia hasn’t kicked in. A 28 week premie with a huge abdomen doesn’t sound like it would have had a very good outcome even with a C-Section. I’ll stop my rant there, having had 14+ years in NICU, closely tied with L&D.
I watched the births of my sons and recently a grand-daughter. All her grandparents were there at her birth and after a struggle followed by the loudest cry any of us had ever heard, she and her mother and the nurses and doctors received a well deserved round of applause.
There was a C-section team standing by right there as the mother gave it her all ~ and out come the baby.
You work there ~ I can only imagine the drama going on forever and a day but it has to be intense.