“If you leave vernix on your baby, nowadays, we see it burns the baby’s skin.” – L&D Nurse

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She’s screaming because you’re starving her. You have to give her formula; you don’t have enough milk. You’re too small.” – L&D Nurse to petite sized mother struggling to latch on her crying baby.

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“That was an absolutely beautiful birth, and you should be so proud.”  - L&D nurse to a mother who had just given birth naturally to a OP baby after a 2 day long labor.

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“It works like a tube of water. If your baby is higher than the placenta, she’ll bleed to death through the cord.”  L&D Nurse when asked about delayed cord clamping.

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“It can be many things, your bowel, some fat, or even a baby’s foot sticking through there.”  - Nurse to mother being seen for an umbilical hernia.

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“It works like a tube of water. If your baby is higher than the placenta, she’ll bleed to death through the cord. ” L&D Nurse when asked about delayed cord clamping.

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“No you can’t stand up. And don’t move like that, you’re moving the monitor! We can’t tell how the baby is doing!” – L&D Nurse to mother in labor.

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“Can you forget for five minutes that you know what you are talking about and do what I say?” – L&D Nurse to mother during her labor.

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“You’ll get the epidural.” – L&D Nurse to mother being admitted for an induction and hoping to birth non-medicated.

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“Can you just stop to fill out these papers for me?” – L&D Nurse to mother being rushed through the Emergency Department to L&D while pushing her baby out.

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