Exactly the first thing that went through my brain too!

I went 2 weeks late. Two weeks was sort of the point where my midwives were like, "No really, you need to have this baby now" but as long as the pregnancy is healthy and nothing worrying shows up in a non-stress test there are plenty of caregivers okay with 2 weeks post-term.

Can you be more specific about who these "girls" are? That's 50% of the human race, and I have a feeling that you did not know the opinion of every single girl at your school when evaluating the potential going-out-to-bars quality of other dudes.

Try being a homely or even average-looking girl in middle and high school and then get back to me about being a social kingmaker.

The hospital system in my city is making so much bank that the city is taking them to court over even being considered a "non-profit" any more. They have definitely stepped over the line into the realm of monopolistic mega-corporation.

Pregnancy and childbirth is a giant ball of complicated unknowns. You just kind of have to roll with it. Which is why no one who does not want to should be forced to undergo it.

My mother-in-law does union organizing for nurses and based on the stories she tells, I think you've got a good plan there.

There's a point-0f-no-return for vaginal deliveries and it was already crossed.

Hospitals in the US are notorious union-busters.

Sizing of a fetus or unborn baby is notoriously inaccurate and unless there are other complicating factors, most of the time they don't even try. There are certain conditions where they will pay special attention to fetal size (gestational diabetes is the major one) but otherwise, standard prenatal care does not…

It is kind of a crap-shoot. Sometimes it works out though (my anatomy scan and fundal height was 50th percentile all along and I birthed a perfect 50th percentile baby... who then proceeded to grow so slowly that at 9 months he's now 5th percentile). There is hope!

Guilty as charged. BRB gotta BF my LO and then I'll be NAK. (Not really, I'm at work, but that was the most acronym-heavy sentence I could think of.)

Preterm induction for fetal macrosomia is basically the BINGO for a shitty OB.

Isn't the margin of error for late term ultrasound size-guessing something like +/- 3 lbs, though? I'm not sure I would even call that a ballpark. Though in this case 15 lbs - 3 lbs is still a 12 lb baby so yoooowch but if she had a normal low-risk pregnancy up to that point no one would have been doing ultrasounds…

Did the mother have GD? I'm guessing not or someone would have expected a big baby.

CSB: I had a black Cabbage Patch doll (I'm white). Same experience as the author: went to the store to get one, they only had black dolls, I picked the one I liked the best (her name was Victoria Lenora which I thought was the BEST and FANCIEST name ever) and my mom bought her for me and we went home. That doll is…

I think in that case it's a matter of tattoos being associated with organized crime.

One could and should because that is exactly what is going on here.

Also a badass option: bringing in more income instead of letting all the utilities get shut off because you've decided you can no longer afford to pay your bills.

Were you nursing? I know that prolactin levels decrease as the day goes on but then start to increase again in the evening and at night time. I wonder if that's what was going on. They really need to educate new moms better about the physical changes that continue to happen to you after you have your baby.