“I would have never guessed this cervix had ever been open. It is like you were never pregnant!” -OB to mother at the six week postpartum. The mother had dilated to 10 cm and then had an emergency cesarean. Her baby died three days after birth.

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“The baby was absolutely perfect; you just must have clotted off the placenta and killed her.” – OB at a follow up appointment with a mother who miscarried at 16 weeks.

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“I know you don’t call your baby a miscarriage, but we do, because any loss before 24 weeks is classified as a miscarriage.” – OB to a mother who had previously given birth to a baby born alive at 20 weeks, who passed shortly after birth.

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“It’s a good thing you didn’t have that home birth you wanted, because you would have had a dead baby on your hands.” – NICU nurse to a pregnant woman who was transitioning from a home birth midwife to a high-risk OB after a significant birth defect was identified.

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“Oh, good! A nice, clean uterus!…Now we can talk birth control so you don’t end up here next year!” – OB to mother during an ultrasound after a miscarriage.

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“You’re just having a miscarriage. All you can do is go home and deal with it.” – Nurse to mother who signed in to the ER stating something was really wrong and she was in unbelievable pain. It turned out to be an ectopic pregnancy and internal bleeding.

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“Well, if you lose it, you lose it.” OB to mother presenting with vaginal bleeding in the 4th month.

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“Well maybe you just have to have a miscarriage every time you want to have a successful pregnancy!” -Mother who had had a miscarriage, a birth, a miscarriage and was now pregnant for the fourth time.

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“New studies are showing that obesity causes miscarriage.” -Midwife to larger sized mother at prenatal who had previously had a miscarriage and was now pregnant again.

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“Don’t get your hopes up!” -OB to mother, immediately after an ultrasound and pelvic exam for unexplained bleeding, when the mother expressed excitement at finding out the baby was a boy.

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