“I won’t be your OB if you take a Bradley class. Bradley doesn’t allow me to practice medicine the way I’ve been trained.” – OB to mother.

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“Bradley teachers are all Nazis! They make the people in the nearby college town look conservative. Their students just get in the way of the OBs and the nurses.” – Family Practice doctor to mother when she said that she would like to discuss what she read in “Husband Coached Childbirth” by Dr. Bradley.

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“You might be lucky and your labor will only be a couple of hours…but if it’s any longer than that, just get the epidural right away, because you won’t last long without it.” – Childbirth Educator to a class of expectant families.

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“Don’t take a childbirth class. It will just get in the way.” – OB to first time mother.

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“Don’t make a plan, they’re stupid, things go wrong all the time.” -Midwife/Childbirth Educator during prenatal classes.

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“Well, we wouldn’t want to have to have the janitor walking around behind you in the halls, mopping up your amniotic fluid!” -L&D Nurse/Childbirth Educator to a mother who asked in class about walking in labor.

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“There is no such thing as an epidural headache.”  -L&D nurse’s response in a hospital birth class after I asked about the risk of getting a headache from an epidural..

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L&D Nurse: “Did you take any childbirth classes?”
Mother: “No”
L&D Nurse: “Good. Then we don’t have any bad habits to break!”

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