“And I’m a physician who practices completely based on old wives’ tales. Nice to meet you!”

Since this comment ended up here, I’m hoping that mama ended up running the other way!

*headdesk* Is it too much to ask drs to have even the smallest bit of faith in women’s bodies?????

Come on — maybe the OP left out some important detail, like her actual pelvis had been removed at age five and replaced with a solid steel frame that had never been sized upward. Or that she’d had a rhino embryo implanted instead of a human. **grin**

“And I can’t believe someone gave you a degree!” Please tell me they’re not having psychic classes in med school now?

I hope the OP comes to tell us how this turned out…and to post the name and address of the OB so I can make an appointment to get some winning lottery numbers.

I can’t believe someone told you you’d be a good doctor! You’re much to arrogant and you have no heart!

I think this is mine. I was a homebirth transfer and showed up 8 cm dilated. I’d been stalled for nearly 12 hours. The OB on call (whom I had never seen before) was a high risk surgeon who made it very clear that she disapproved of my HBAC attempt. She came in to my room and made this comment before even introducing herself. I did end up having a c-section about 6 hours later (after several fights with this doctor and another), but it had nothing to do with my pelvis size. My previous scar (an unnecesarean three years earlier) had started to rupture (they never caught this on all their fancy monitors, BTW – you know, the ones I HAD to have from the moment I went into labor in case I ruptured?) and my uterus couldn’t finish dilating. My baby was so far engaged in my pelvis that she had to be shoved back in to my uterus be extracted. Had I not started to rupture, my 8 lb. 14 oz. baby would have fit just perfectly through my 4’11″ frame.

I should mention that I later found out this doctor TAUGHT at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for 8 years before coming to my hospital.

Unless you’ve had your pelvis completely shattered beyond repair in an accident, or are a midget with ricketts, this is undoubtedly false. Whatever other factors may be present complicating the situation, Mother Being Petite is not a medical condition requiring surgery.

Johns Hopkins, eh? That explains a lot. Their obstetric bias has always been to the extreme side of “heroic intervention,” from what I’ve read.

I hate doctors!

Kelly –

If it isn’t yours, it’s mine. My first OB, with my son (my first child) also said this to me…I’m about 5’1 and I was 100 pounds at the time. I remember just LOOKING at her like I watched her grow a second head in my presence.I was so flabbergasted, it was like, “How in the heck do I respond to such idiocy?”

My husband just stared at her and said, “Well…her grandmother was even smaller and had all 7 kids. Natural. With no help. So I’m pretty certain my wife’s body will do what it was created to do. Come on honey…let’s go find a doctor who knows what they’re talking about.”

And we left.

Ironically, this same OB delivered my second child, a girl, this past December (she was the on call OB). And she was the first to say, “Oh wow..she’s doing this natural? On a full dose of pitocin? That’s INCREDIBLE!” Then again, I was also pushing, the way *I* wanted to, with my husband catching, when she walked in. At a hospital, no less. She just stood by and supervised. The nurses were so excited and happy that I had gotten “…the birth you deserve!!”

I recently called the Nurse Supervisor to let her know how awesome my second birthing experience was, and she mentioned that those nurses are still talking about my birth experience – they are older nurses, and were super excited that I gave birth “the way moms used to”.