Thank you. It’s very easy to armchair quarterback these decisions, but people are really naive about the fact that you can end up with a dead baby if you make the wrong call, and that is far worse—-both for the mom and obviously the baby—-than having an unwanted c-section. I say that as someone who is still grieving a…

Her whole testimony sounds ridiculous to me as an attorney. She doesn’t remember key parts of her case. Like, she doesn’t remember if they told her the baby was in distress?  This is some grade A ambulance chasing right here. If you have a client who can’t affirmatively assert whether important elements of your case…

As a L&D nurse we use fetal monitoring to determine how a fetus is “coping” with labor. There are three categories of tracing of a baby’s heart rate - Cat I is a sign that a fetus is well oxygenated at that moment, Cat II is indeteminant, the fetus could be fine or it could be compromised, we can’t tell. Cat III…

I’m not a medical expert, but I am currently pretty well informed about the risks of VBACs, since I had one a few months ago (successful, thankfully!). I feel like we don’t have enough details from both sides of this particular story, so I’ll just say some general things based on my experience & my research:

#1: Retarded? Really?

#2: Yes, yes they can be. It’s rare, but it does happen.