“You are so lucky you get to sleep. ” – NICU nurse with a 8 week old to mother who’s baby was in the NICU.

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“He’ll be blind and retarded, if he survives, and you are going to die!” -OB screaming at a mother admitted to hospital at 28 weeks with severe preeclampsia, while making arrangments to transfer her to another hospital.

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“Can we lower the bed some more so she will stop glaring at me like that?” -OB request while a mother, who was very displeased with the actions of the OB was pushing her baby out.

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“Actually, tongue-tie has nothing to do with breastfeeding. In fact, a tongue-tied baby would actually breastfeed more efficiently.” -Pediatrician to mother with 8 hour old baby having difficulty latching.

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“You wouldn’t mind if my colleague assists would you?” -Family Practice Doctor to mother as she is in the lithotomy position ready to push her baby out.

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“You just want to be a martyr to the pain.” -L&D Nurse to mother on telephone, when mother asked about the likelihood of having a non-medicated birth at that facility.

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“Wow, you went into labor! It must have been all that crying you did in my office.” -OB to mother who birthed her VBAC baby two days before her due date, after mother had broken down in tears in the office earlier in the day after being told she needed to schedule her cesarean before her due date to avoid a sudden stillbirth.  She went into labor that night.

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“If you’d done what I told you to do, I wouldn’t have had to hurt you. Next time read some different books and do what you’re told.” -OB, after birth,  explaining to mother who refused an epidural, why it was necessary to cut a 3rd degree episiotomy.

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“Do you plan to keep the baby?” -L&D nurse to mother admitted during active labor, as she proceeded to ask 45 minutes of admittance questions, despite all the preadmission paperwork already being submitted.

“We’ll have to see how cute he is.” -Mother’s reply

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“I wouldn’t tell anyone yet, if I were you.”-OB to mother who had experienced two years of infertility, a miscarriage and a diagnosis of PCOS, and was finally in the OB office for a positive Home Pregnancy Test.

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