Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“…I Can’t Let You Blow Us Off Any Longer.”
“I’m scheduling your induction for 41 weeks. Look, you’re lucky we let you go this long and I can’t let you blow us off any longer.” – OB
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Yet another OB who has forgotten the patient is the customer. Let’s remind the OB… “I can’t let you speak in such a disrespectful manner. I’m going to have to let you go.”
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StaudtCJ Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 1:08 pm (Quote)
I really like this comment. I think that this should be a normal occurrence. We would not tolerate rude people in any other field. The rude plumber doesn’t get the job. The rude waitress doesn’t get the tip. The rude lawyer finds himself client-less. The rude doctor should find himself patient-less.
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For the record, I talked her into “allowing” me to come in for a NST and biophysical profile at 41w (a Saturday) and then agreed to schedule an induction if anything looked scary on the NST or BPP. I fretted and fretted about it – I didn’t want to be induced, and it just made a ton more sense to me to LOOK and SEE if there was a problem rather than to do a medical procedure on the assumption that there was a problem.
In the end my baby came by himself, after a 90 minute labor, at 1am the morning of 41 weeks 
So I did fail to show….but only after I thanked her profusely for “allowing” me to go past 40w (eye roll).
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Nicole Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 12:56 pm (Quote)
Oh! And up until this point I’d been seeing the other providers in the office and no one had said anything about induction. They hadn’t even mentioned vaginal exams to check progress. So it was like a slap in the face to come to this appointment and be bullied and criticized for having been pregnant too long. It was totally unexpected!
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Kat Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:24 pm (Quote)
Wow. What a piece of work.
I could understand a comment like:
“Since you are past 40 weeks, it would be prudent to check how the baby and placenta are doing with a NST and a Bio-Physical Profile on these dates…”
But “We can’t LET YOU…?!”
No.
I got told this during my third pregnancy. We won’t LET YOU go past 41 weeks. I wasn’t as educated and assertive about my medical care at that time as I am now, and having had a Very Bad Experience with pitocin that remark made the last week+ of my pregnancy needlessly scary and stressful. I went into labor at 40+2, and again during labor I got the “I will LET YOU walk for one hour…”
I went back to my PP visit, and then after that I decided I would go ahead and LET THEM not be my doctors anymore.
Good thing too, if I had been seeing them for the pregnancy where I went to 41+5 somebody’s head might have exploded. 
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Louisa had this to say,
Aug 21, 2011 @ 1:49 pm (Quote)
I am so far iver due now that I am expecting a comment like this any day now.
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silverhawkwarrior Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 7:18 pm (Quote)
A million points if you kick the commenter in the face. A million more if the kicking breaks your waters and starts labor. Good luck, Louisa! Have a wonderful birth!
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Yeah… Before even reading the Pink link, this much was obvious– they were “already” “bending the rules” by not inducing… a woman who wasn’t even at 41 weeks yet. By the phrasing, she was at no more than 40w5d (probably less), and yet she was “lucky” they hadn’t already induced her. *sigh*
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You’re so right: I’m LUCKY that there are informed consent laws which protect my right to refuse treatment I deem inadvisable?
And what is this “let” you keep saying? Are you my Dad, and am I fifteen years old?
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nicki Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 10:28 am nicki(Quote)
I know right?
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