37. Is she, however, obligated to push?
For many years, I worked in obstetrics.
I was looking after a woman in her late twenties who was pregnant, not a teen mom, married, and working. I gave my regular speech about how to push when she got to 10 centimeters. When I tell her, she nods and goes, and she does an excellent job of moving the baby down. I’m excited, but I see she’s talking to her spouse in hushed tones.
She continued to push and thankfully didn’t take long because she kept rolling her eyes at me. I was thrilled to hand this lovely couple off to the doctor. They looked slightly more convinced when he told her to do what I had told her to do, and then a baby magically appeared. If she’d ended up in a c-section, I’m sure she’d have been convinced I had done it all to torture her.
She kept pushing, which didn’t take long because she kept rolling her eyes at me. I was ecstatic to deliver this lovely couple to the doctor. When he advised her to do what I had told her to do, and then a baby arrived out of nowhere, they seemed a little more convinced. If she’d had to have a c-section, I’m sure she’d think I’d done it all deliberately torture her.
How does a woman survive in everyday society as an adult without having to push a baby out?
Then there was the time I told a woman that there was no way we could do her cesarean laparoscopically, and she became enraged.
