God complex much? You can’t guarantee a good outcome no matter what, so I’ll avoid exposing my baby to hours of ultrasound & get to check intermittently.

But you can absolutely guarantee one as long as the monitor is on, right??

so you can guarantee a good outcome using fetal monitoring? can I get that in writing please? hmmm didn’t think so.

I’d want that in writing, notarized and signed by all parties involved so I can sue if something doesn’t go the way I want it to if I agree.

Reason Number One for all the medical lawsuits out there: because when you as medical practitioner use implied promises to coerce patients into doing something against their will, when something goes wrong, they wonder why you didn’t come through. After all, they caved to your demands because you implied everything would be fine if only they did so.

Then these people who gave you their compliance and their dignity figure there’s only one reason something went wrong: your incompetency. And then the lawsuit.

And then you go whining to everyone, “Patients expect that there will only be a good outcome!” when the fact is, you created that beast yourselves.

I will get a 100% completely okay baby if I wear this chaffing elastic band with doohickeys around my belly. Can I get that in writing?

You can’t guarantee a good outcome if I’m on the monitors either, so bite me.

Everyone else has pointed out the obvious so I’ll leave that.

I was on continual monitoring because I have a full inverse T. I can see the logic in that, they can get the baby out at first sign of distress but it’s still not guaranteed and my consultant made sure I knew that even with the monitor on the whole time they couldn’t guarantee to get her out in time if the worst happened.

There are very few guarantees in life and childbirth is the one thing that not one person on this planet can guarantee.

OH, thank you. I just came here to say, “So, you can guarantee a good outcome if I’m on the monitors? No? Then, no thank you!” So nice to have like-minded people out there.