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…

I sent this article to my cousin, who is an OB. She says the doctor did the right thing (though maybe needs to work on bedside manner). According to her, any signs of fetal distress is enough to move for that emergency c section- apparent tanking heart rate is one of the last things that show- the damage may be…

This is only mildly related to the story, but I too hallucinate on painkillers! I get the exact same type of experiences as you, thinking people had told me they hated me, didn’t want to see me ever again, etc. I get really paranoid on them. Everyone I’ve ever mentioned this to has told me that it’s totally bizarre,…

Murderers are typically only referred to by their 3 names AFTER they have murdered someone. They do this so every dude in America named John Rust doesn’t get bombarded with bullshit. You don’t become a murderer because people refer to you by three names. People start referring to you by three names BECAUSE you’re a…

I’m sorry, this is nonsense.

OK. So let’s assume they owe her money for the violation of her body autonomy. That’s what she’s seeking, after all. What would that be worth?

I don’t know if it’s just me, (and I’m not saying it happened to this woman) but I am an avid hallucinator when I’m in pain and on meds. I broke my ankle last fall and I vividly remember a phone call (just after I got back from the ER) where my father yelled at me, told me that he hated me, and to never call him…

Okay, look, I get that women are often treated dismissively in health care.

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:

I’m curious why she was so against having another c-section after having two. It’s says she had an 8-month recovery, but I don’t know if that means there were complications or it just took that long to feel ‘normal.’

What do you want to bet that if they’d allowed her to continue with a VBAC and something had gone wrong with her or the baby (or both), she be suing over that.

Having read just this article on the situation I am going to abrogate my duties as an anonymous Internet “expert” and declare...I don’t know who I believe.

I’m curious to see what other details about this case come out.

Our latest dialogue about this:

I get it, I do. I’ve been known to use the “I-have-a-boyfriend” excuse to stop men from hitting on me. This was back in the 80s, when it hadn’t occurred to me, even though I’ve always been a feminist, that my simple “No thank you” should be sufficient without invoking the (possibly imaginary) cock-blocking cock owner…

Why? Melania Trump has already had enough cosmetic procedures to continue looking like Melania Trump. Even though the actual Melania Trump looks like Natasha from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. Who’d want to look like that?

He’s a walking caricature of the typical douche in every movie, ever, right down to his love life.

Well that’s why his current wife was shipped here in a crate with air holes.

For someone who considers himself quite the lothario, Trump has zero fucking game. He just hits on every woman he comes into contact with until he finds one desperate or dumb enough to say yes.