I would put money on the fact that she induced premature labor herself by rupturing her amniotic sac with the hanger.

Eep. I’ve seen it. Even on a 19 weeker. It did NOT sit well with me.

Cause Tennessee sucks when it comes to options (I live there).

The Good Wife? I lurve that show.

24 weeks is considered viability, and at some level 3 NICUs they will sometimes push it to 22 weeks.

I am extremely cautious to believe any attempts at medical prognosis the press makes. Can’t count the number of times I have read articles about my own patients that were just plain wrong. They get bits and pieces, almost never directly from the physicians, and things get lost in translation. Even in the event that…

Woah woah. Needing oxygen does not mean the baby should be condemned to die. Twenty-four weeks gestation is considered viability, thus the baby has a right to treatment. Babies born before 34 weeks lack surfactant in their lungs which allows them to breathe like you and I. That’s why the baby is on oxygen, because the…

Sounds like it induced premature labor (she likely self-ruptured her amniotic sac) and the baby was delivered. Also the neonate was 24 weeks old - that’s viability. Babies at this age can survive outside the womb, so it is completely unethical to not treat this patient.

Someone probably said it already, but 24 weeks gestation = viability, so it would be unethical to not resuscitate a neonate at that age since statistically it has a high chance of survival outside the womb.

helpful, thank you!

OoooOOh! I love that story about his daughter. Bad ass.

Raised in a community that sent many kids to college there, so I saw Bernie’s stop as a chance to speak to them on their own terms and possibly convert some young people who were starting to have doubts about Liberty’s brand of Christianity (which made me love him more!).

So many people from my high school (private, evangelical/crazy Christian) went there. I always found it absurd that it was considered by that crowd to provide a college education comparable to, say, a normal state school. Then again, I don’t think anyone that went there had any interest in living outside the bubble we…

but that awesome curly-brown hair wig *heart eyed emoji*

Replying to myself bc I don’t know how to edit. There’s an extra 0 in that stat - it should be 0.1%. Also, typical use of OCPs can have a failure rate as high as 8%.

Disclosure: I am not a parent nor will I be for at least a couple more years.

The great thing about IUDs is that the true efficacy rate is the same as the “typical” use efficacy rate - there minimal room for human error (not checking the string is in place is the only user error that can happen) - so it’s 99.9% effective in a year. Over 3 years, there is a 0.9% cumulative failure rate. OCPs…

Supporting what Bernd says - look into Mirena! Also check out Nexplanon.

Getting pregnant when you aren’t using a condom isn’t an “accident” - it’s just “getting pregnant.” Which is okay if that’s what you want, but don’t call it “unplanned” or “accidental.”

Eeek! Geez, I am sorry. Oh how we are blinded by love when we are young.