“So, you’ve got one empty sac and one heartbeat in there. Everything looks good for that one, but I give it a 50/50 shot at best, because you’ve got such a lousy track record.” -ER doctor to mother presenting for vaginal bleeding early in pregnancy, after an ultrasound revealed a miscarried twin and a viable twin.  The mother had suffered many prior pregnancy losses.

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“This one is less alive…”  OB to mother at 12 week ultrasound of twins, when one baby was active and moving around and the other was was not.

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“You will kill your babies with your stubbornness.” -OB to mother carrying twins who did not want to schedule a cesarean at 38 weeks, when all late term tests indicated healthy babies tolerating the end of pregnancy well.

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“If you haven’t delivered in less than 3 hours, we WILL put you under and you WILL have an emergency c-section.”  -OB Resident said this to mother who  refused to sign the waiver forms for a c-section at 2 cm dilated and only 30% effaced.

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“Imagine your uterus blowing up like an over-filled balloon and ‘pop,’ it explodes.”  -OB to a woman pregnant with twins, and looking for a VBAC provider.  The interval between births was less than 18 months.

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