Published: Saturday June 22, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Saturday June 22, 2013 MYT 11:14:23 AM
BY LOH FOON FONG
foonfong@thestar.com.my
Going gaga: Sri Morni showing her son to HKL staff members during the anniversary celebrations.
KUALA LUMPUR: Sri Morni Abdullah did not plan to have another child after her fourth one and was shocked that she was pregnant last year.
This was because she had been advised by her doctor not to have another child as a fifth Caesarean section would pose a high risk to her and the baby.
“My earlier doctor did not want to follow up on my case as it was too risky so I decided to go to Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL),” said the businesswoman during the maternity hospital’s 50th anniversary celebrations yesterday.
“It was a frightening experience,” she added.
The 38-year-old grateful mother attended the event with her six-month-old son Qays Ashir Mishary Asmadi and her husband Asmadi Abdul Rahman, 37.
The doctor at HKL explained the risk to her and asked whether she would want to abort the baby but she decided to go ahead with the pregnancy and was admitted for close monitoring for two months before her delivery on Nov 19 last year.
Sri Morni stayed another two months after the delivery.
Despite her success story as well as others in other countries, who had more than 10 C-sections, HKL Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department head Datuk Dr J. Ravindran said a fifth C-section was rare and patients were advised to stop after the third C-section.
“A C-section could cause low-lying placenta that could block birth passage or that the placenta could stick to the womb and lead to severe bleeding and death and this risk increases with each procedure,” he said.
Sri Morni had severe bleeding during the C-section but the team at the hospital had prepared for all possible complications and managed to address the problem, he said, adding that pregnant women with these risks must deliver in a hospital.
Dr Ravindran said in the last 50 years, HKL had helped 12,462 mothers deliver babies safely and 28% of them were carried out through C-section compared with the nationwide average of 22% to 25%.
He said the increase was due to mothers requesting for it or they had complications or had diabetes and had large babies or that some doctors opt for it for medico-legal defence.
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