“Weight Watchers has a nice program for breastfeeding mothers.” – Certified Nurse Midwife at mother’s 6 week postpartum visit, after the mother stepped on the scale.

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“Wow, you’re healing up great! You’re like a superwoman, you did what you needed to get the baby out.” – Midwife to mother during a postpartum visit.

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“I am too busy to keep coming in and checking your baby. She will have to go to the nursery for monitoring. She’ll be fine. You can come see her whenever you want.” – L&D Nurse to mother who’s baby was a little bit cool. The mother was post-cesarean and not yet mobile.

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“You haven’t had a period in 9 months, of course there is a lot of bleeding.” – Postpartum nurse told the mother when the mother said she was concerned with the amount of postpartum bleeding she was experiencing.

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“So you will pee out the hormones for 4 days, then you will cry for 6 weeks. If you are still crying after 6 weeks, give me a call and we will fix it. If she doesn’t call then you call for her.” – OB to new parents about the signs of postpartum depression.

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“I can make any decision I want if I feel it is best for your baby!” – L&D Nurse who removed a baby from the postpartum room to the nursery because she thought the mother could not care for the baby due to medication she was on. Other nursing shifts did not agree and had kept the pair together.

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“You can’t let them co-sleep like that! They’ll breathe in each other’s carbon dioxide and suffocate!” – Postpartum nurse to mother who let her newborn twins share a plastic bassinet in the hospital.

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“Oh, you had a cesarean? Yeah, all the women who come in here wanting to go natural wind up with cesareans.” – Nurse to mother at the 6 week postpartum visit.

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Mother to OB during postpartum visit: “Do you want to hold the baby?”
Doctor: “No! Newborns make me nervous!”

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“…You can always try for a VBAC but most women aren’t successful and usually just schedule a repeat cesarean.” – OB to mother at post-op check-up immediately after unwanted cesarean due to failure to descend/FTP during failed induction.

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