Chiming in here as a medical professional who also runs a sex shop:

This is why you always do coffee for a first date...the maximum length is like 30 minutes. If it’s going well, you can extend it.

I once got completely soaked in amniotic fluid while delivering a baby. Like, straight through the ‘waterproof’ gown, through my scrubs, even through my underwear. My boyfriend had to leave work to go buy me new shoes at Costco and bring them to me at the hospital so I could continue my shift.

When I was a Med student rotating through OB/GYN I always made an effort to engage the dads because I was often the only one who had the time to do so. I remember this one patient going in for a crash c-section when I noticed that the father was in the midst of a nervous breakdown and nobody was paying him any…

Waiting for a cord prolapse because the OR isn’t ready? Seriously? I have seen crash c-sections for cord prolapse, and they literally *throw* the instruments out of the pack onto the table. And they start operating before they open everything.

Epidurals are extremely common in Canada.

Speaking as a medical professional from Canada who has done Labour & Delivery in a few different provinces, this article is not portraying the attitude toward Midwives or home births correctly.