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I’m looking for perspectives from doctors, NICU staff, OB/GYNs, or anyone familiar with labor and delivery.

A close relative had a high-risk pregnancy. Her water broke around the end of the 8th month, and by the n the doctors decided the baby would needs to be delivered. She had been admitted to the labor ward for a couple of days. Earlier, she had received steroid injections to help mature the baby’s lungs because of the expected preterm delivery.
Throughout the admission, the updates we received were generally positive. We were told the baby was doing fine and that they were trying to achieve a vaginal delivery with induction rather than a C-section.

Late at night, we were suddenly informed that the baby’s heart rate had become concerning and that a C-section would likely be required.

From what we understand, they still continued attempting a vaginal delivery for some time. My relative also recalls seeing a few junior doctors appearing unsure of what to do, asking each other questions like, “What do we do now?” (Frantic and confused ab kya karein questions amongst them) She felt there was no senior doctor immediately supervising at that point. Someone came in scolding them.

She was eventually taken to the operating theatre roughly two hours later. While there, she overheard someone say something along the lines of, “What has the labour room sent us?” (Labour room walon ne kya kar diya) and another person referred to it as a “challenging case.”

The baby was born without a detectable heartbeat, required resuscitation (including adrenaline, as we were later told), and is currently in the NICU in critical condition.

I’m not asking anyone here to judge the baby’s prognosis. My question is about the management of the labor itself.

I don’t want to accuse anyone unfairly. At the same time, I can’t shake the feeling that there may have been negligence or failures in decision-making. It is making me seethe with rage really that as if they were experiments for learning. I’m looking for objective medical opinions on these concerns.

This was my first time at TMH, and the experience was harrowing and harassing. My relative was expecting and was in the labour room (if hell had a location, it may look like this labour room and its fancy waiting room full of mosquitoes and cockroaches and an AC which spits fire)

They were callous towards my relative eventually causing life threatening conditions (we’re praying things to get better soon.)

The processes are archaic, the doctors rude- they share barely anything about the patient’s condition as if they’re withholding information to expose some wrong doing.

People should rather pay a lot more money and get to decent private hospitals anywhere else.

Do FAANG companies even entertain PM applications from candidates who do not have a Tier 1 university in academics?

Additionally if someone has core PM experience in a non FAANG or equivalent cohort of companies?

The question is about even getting shortlisted or considered- if the bar of education or background trumps the actual experiential relevancy.