“I hate pitocin and I think episiotomies are evil.” – OB to mother during 34 week prenatal to discuss birth preferences.

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“I could do an episiotomy and get this baby out now, but I know you said you didn’t want one. The baby is doing fine, so we can also wait and let your body open naturally. It’s completely your choice.” – OB to mother with a prolonged pushing phase.

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“I love episiotomies because I can tell when there’s going to be a blow out.” – OB to mother.

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“There is no such thing as a normal birth, only a vaginal birth or birth via cesarean section. If you have a vaginal birth, you will have an epidural.  I will cut an episiotomy and use forceps to extract the baby.” – OB to mother.

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“Can I please just cut a small one?” -OB during pushing to mother who had requested not to have an episiotomy during a 30 minute pushing phase with a baby who was not showing any fetal distress.

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“You don’t even have to ask.  A study came out questioning the usefulness of episiotomy and they’re certainly hard on patients so no practitioner at this hospital performs routine episiotomy any more.  They are a thing of the past.  The only time we use them is when we need to use a vacuum or forceps to assist and we certainly will be discussing that before it happens.” – OB to mother who asked for the episiotomy rates while interviewing OBs.

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“I need you to STOP being a moving target!” – OB during a repair of an unnecessary episiotomy.  The area was not numbed prior to the repair.

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“This baby sure tore you up!”-  OB resident to newly delivered mother after the OB managed to cut an episiotomy and use a vacuum on a baby born 1 hour after the mother arrived at the hospital.

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“Can you feel this?” – OB while cutting an episiotomy without mother’s knowledge or consent.

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“I always cut an episiotomy on first time moms, there’s *NO WAY* a baby could fit out of there on it’s own.” – OB to a first time mother, who was pushing and the OB was sitting between her legs.

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