I see why that seems weird in this context, but I read medical charts for a living and a diagnosis almost always includes admission of uncertainty. There’s only so much a doctor can claim certainty about, and idk what they’re allowed to release to the public (i.e. what did the notes from the direct medical record say?…

My understanding is that uterine rupture is made much more likely when there’s that scar from where the previous baby was MacDuff’d out of there. The likelihood of rupture is still low (around 1%), but if there is rupture the mother could bleed out, and the fetus could die or suffer serious brain damage from oxygen…

When my sister ended up with an emergency c section for her firstborn, one of the things i learned from the very cool doctors and nurses who were there is that the heartrate is often one of the last signs of fetal distress. A baby in distress diverts blood from other organs to maintain the heart and brain, so they can…

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 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.’

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:

This is also one of the real dangers of a culture that treats expertise as “elitism” and views people with the kind long-term extensive training that doctors go through with mistrust and suspicion.

I dunno, is that required? What’s the accepted standard for going for C-section; do they have to wait for obvious and definite fetal distress, or are signs of impending distress acceptable?

I wonder if they had waited until definite distress, whether some lawyer be raking them over the coals for not being proactive.

Enough bad comments might make your husband snap. My husband is super chill but he did something to a horrible coworker by ruining the lights before a show that was super easy to fix, but since horrible coworker was useless and a dick couldn’t fix it and made the horrible coworker panic till my husband fixed it... my…

Those incisors are a little odd-looking, don’t you think?

Oh no. Someone doesn’t know how Lifehacker works...

Did you read the article? The author spent a goodly amount of it relating these points to watching stuff with his girlfriend.

You’re kidding, right?

Sorry, but this is based on my experience, and it worked wonderfully. I’ve been trying to convince people to watch scary movies with me for years, and this is what worked. Also, I’m not a post-Gawker guy. I’ve been here for years, and you look very small from my high horse.

Yikes....chill

Good candidate for BDD—body dysmorphic disorder. His original teeth are far superior to the CHOMPAHS he now possess. He reeks of BDD—unnecessary alterations to look “better” that become addictive and destructive.

Why? Because they can. Because people like this are so utterly forgettable and powerless in their own lives that they resort to these tactics. They can literally sit and watch the shares and retweets and ongoing commentary explode. All because the perpetrator made a couple of clicks and typed up a few sentences.

A musician noted that they and many of the crew members were licensed to carry, and the backstage had plenty of guns. He claims they didn’t want police to think they were the active shooters so they took cover, but the panic, the unknown, and the confusion are enough to temper the spirits of any wannabe weekend hero.…

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