“You don’t take pain very well, do you?.” -L&D nurse to mother exhibiting transition like symptoms, when a vaginal exam revealed her cervix was 1 cm dilated.

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“If I don’t give you an episiotomy, you’ll look like hamburger, and that wouldn’t be fair to your husband.” – OB to mother who had had a 4th degree tear during her previous birth.

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“The women who were supposed to have delivered after you have already had their babies!” -L&D Nurse to mother who the nurse believed was not pushing hard enough.

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“What are you doing to me up there?  I keep having bowel come at me!”  -OB to Anesthesiologist during a repeat cesarean on a very anxious mother.  The “joke” had to be explained, by others, stating it was nothing that anyone, especially the mother was doing.

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“Well, how do you like natural birth?” – L&D Nurse to mother who experienced every intervention possible during her induction, but birthed without an epidural.

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“If you let your baby sleep with you, you will create a monster.” – Pediatric Nurse to mother of a several day old baby.

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“You aren’t really in labor if you are able to laugh between contractions.” OB to mother during transition.

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“Stop moving away from the doctor!” -Nurse to mother who had asked the doctor to stop the cervical exam and was trying to move out of position.

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“So push!” -Midwife when mother felt like pushing after going from zero to transition in 40 minutes.

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“I am very forgetful.” – Family practice doctor to mother who asked about the hospital policies on scheduling a repeat cesarean for 39 weeks for VBAC women.

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