“What are you so worried about, there’s nothing down there they haven’t seen before.” – OB wanting to invite students to watch a birth, during the pushing phase, after the mother had already said no.

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“So, I hear you gave birth to an almost 10 pound baby without any medications. You just did something amazing for you and your baby!  Now do you need any help breastfeeding?”  -L&D Nurse

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“Childbirth is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do today.”  -OB to a mother in the middle of her labor and birth.

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“Nurses, watch and learn! This is what labor and birth are supposed to be like!” -OB to nurses observing a non-medicated birth.

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“Do you have vaginal polyps? It’s a vaginal polyp.” -L&D nurse upon visual examination of a preterm mother who reported feeling something in the birth canal, mere moments before the baby “crowned” frank breech.  The polyp was a penis.

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“Because babies born underwater die.” -OB when informing mother to be sure to get out of the birth tub prior to birth.

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“Stop holding your breath, honey, your baby needs you to breathe, your body will do this on it’s own, just breathe your baby down.” -OB to a mother who had always been told to do “purple pushing” during her prior births.

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“No way.  I don’t wanna’ get kicked.  AND I don’t want goop all over me.” -Scrub tech at a birth when asked to help hold one of the mom’s legs while she birthed her baby.

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“I get nervous when people have home births because so many babies in the hospital have to be resuscitated.” -Pediatrician to mother at her son’s two week newborn check up.

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