“Do what your body wants to do; don’t do anything that hurts.” – homebirth midwife to mother starting to feel pushy.  The mother was concerned that she might not be fully dilated.

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“Well, it looks like you are a great candidate for a VBAC at home if that is what you want to do.  I believe everything is going to go exactly the way you hope.  I have full faith in your midwife.  Call me if you change your mind and I’ll see you after your baby is born for follow-up.  Babies are a miracle.” -Family Practice doctor to a mother who was seeing the doctor for bleeding at 8 weeks of pregnancy.

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“Oh why do you torture yourself? You should have just gotten an epidural! No one who has a natural birth wants to have another one afterwards.” -OB to mother while she was pushing her baby out non-medicated.

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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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“Oh for God’s sake why didn’t somebody give this woman an enema?” -OB to woman birthing in 1969.  She still remembers these words to this day.

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“The more VBACs you have, the more likely you are to have a uterine rupture!  Having another VBAC would be very dangerous!”  – OB to mother seeking care for her fourth vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC.)

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“They don’t come out on their own you know.” -OB to mother who had asked the doctor to stop pulling on the umbilical cord, 30 seconds after delivery.

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“You are going to have a great deal of difficulty finding anyone to care for you if you are so arrogant and adamant about how you want to be treated”. -OB to a pregnant woman who she declared high risk, who had asked the doctor to reconsider based on other medical professionals familar with her issues, who were recommending that she NOT be considered high risk.

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“Oh, I don’t know if that’s possible.  That would be really hard on my back.” -OB’s response when pregnant mother told him that she would like to give birth in the squatting position.

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“Oh, birth plans, birth plans, everyone has a birth plan, but we doctors, we just take those birth plans and toss ‘em right out the window!” – -On-call OB’s response when asked by a laboring mother if the OB had had a chance to read her birth plan.  This comment was complete with hand gesture of tossing something over her shoulder.

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