All of you are going to make a comment about Theismann breaking his leg, but unlike you, I’m going to take the high road and say that Theismann is a fucking idiot.

It has also been shown that the environment in a hospital delivery room can increase the risk of complications. The noise, bright lights, unfamiliar people, strange smells, etc., can increase the stress a birthing woman experiences, slow down labor and increase her perception of pain. When you add in the unnecessary…

Even those women who aren’t actually OBs!

Ok, this article is bullshit. You talk about the doctor who saved your first child’s life as “cold and indifferent,” and then rave about the midwives for some reason. This doctor saved your child’s life and you are distressed that he didn’t, what? Coo to you?

“I used to think ONLY MEN are competent OBs, and now I think ONLY WOMEN are competent OBs!”

That’s as far as I got when I was hoping someone was gonna offer a TL;DR version up in this shizzat.

And really, unless that baby comes shooting out of your vagina like a cannonball, I’m not sure what “reflexes” have to do with delivering babies.

I had a male midwife.

Semi-related: a close friend who is a feminist and all that good stuff? When she got married a few years ago she insisted on having a male officiant because a woman ‘just didn’t feel important or ceremonial enough, sorry if that’s not feminist or whatever.’ I just let it go but it still pisses me off - like if someone…

When in the hell were you first pregnant, in the ‘40s?

When I finally went to a doctor for my depression and anxiety, he told me one of the best things I could do in the short term was watch puppy videos. This was when I had actually given up on life so much, I wouldn’t even brush my hair in the morning, just tie it into a sad pile of follicles on top my head which often…

Oh god I miss my cat so much. He was such an asshole.

Yutes

I guess I just don’t get it.

Ooh, fun. :)

Arranging a surrogate does not, in fact, require legal documents in most states (I don’t know about CA specifically), though I can’t imagine someone like Shepherd not having a contract. So, we’ll assume she has one.

Let’s send her a fedora.

I studied assisted reproductive technologies in law school, and this is precisely the kind of scenario we discussed in our hypotheticals. There is literally no legal precedent for this case, anywhere. It’s completely uncharted territory. On the one hand, Shepherd’s position isn’t nuts: she has no genetic relation to…