“Don’t cry, you should be happy, God loved your baby more than you did.” -Hospital Chaplain to mother who had just had a miscarriage in the hospital.

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“I’m sorry! You were right all along.” -OB to mother who had given birth naturally and without interventions, when the initially did not feel that she could.

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“You’re not sick you know.  Being pregnant is a perfectly normal way for you to be.” OB to mother inquiring about activity restrictions at 5 months into a normal, healthy pregnancy.

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“We need to cut the cord now or your baby will die!” – OB to mother immediately after she birthed a very wiggly, crying, baby when the mother wanted to keep the cord intact.

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“A gentleman waits for the placenta to pass.” -OB to a husband when the husband inquired how long the couple should wait to have sex after the baby is born.

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“See, next time you’ll just get the epidural sooner.” -OB to mom who had planned to have a natural childbirth and ended up with an epidural after many hours of laboring unmedicated with an occiput posterior baby lodged on her tail bone.

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“I am so upset, I delivered a dead baby yesterday.” -OB to mother during an ultrasound scan at 37 weeks,.  The mother burst into tears on the exam table while the doctor continued to discuss the details.

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“Be sure to send me a picture so I can put it on my wall…I have my trophies.”  -OB requesting a picture of a baby he delivered by Cesarean from the mother before discharge.

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“I don’t know why you’re so upset, all childbirth is natural.”  -L&D Nurse to mother upset and crying after a cesarean, who had been striving for a non-medicated vaginal birth.

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“If you are doing that, you better get your butt in here on this bed and on a monitor.” – Nurse to a mother who was squatting in triage upon arrival.

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