“Please don’t blame my use of the vacuum for delivery for the injury your son has. His injuries are from your vaginal fat, not negligence.” – OB to mother when discussing injuries from a vacuum extraction that caused a NICU stay and permanent brain injury.

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“With your size, the fat pads would never allow a baby to get through your pelvis.” – OB to mother.

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“Women prefer having cesarean sections to avoid vaginal changes.” – OB to mother at a postpartum check up, when the mother expressed emotion around having a cesarean for a suspected macrosomic baby that measured only 8 pounds.

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“Wow! Your cootch is so big, I can fit my whole hand up there!” – OB to mother at her first prenatal, during a vaginal exam.

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“Oh, you’re constipated! You can feel that from your vagina, you know.”  - Nurse to woman during her first pelvic exam ever.

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“We’re going to limit the number of vaginal exams we give you since your water has already broken and we don’t want to increase risk of infection.” – L&D nurse to mother who had 7 cervical exams during her 10 hour labor.

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“If you keep pushing, the pressure will kill the tissue in your vagina. There will be a hole between your rectum and vagina and you won’t be able to control your bowel movements. I won’t be able to help you because the tissue will be dead and there will be no way to repair it.” – OB to mother in labor.

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“Where is your urethra, I can’t find it. Why can’t I find it? When is the last time you peed? Try and pee now.” – OB to mother during repairs after birth.

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“It’s nice that you keep it cleaned up down here. Most pregnant women just let it all go, kind of like when a woman gets married she let’s herself go.” – OB commenting on a 38 week pregnant mother’s pubic hair during a cervical exam.

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“You haven’t had sex yet?!? Your poor husband. There are other ways to satisfy him, you know?” –  OB at 4 week postpartum visit, where mother was being seen for possible popped stitches on a vaginal tear.

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