Stupid Induction Story

[Phoebe & Allyson]

On the front of the "Local" section in today's paper.
Female paramedic resuscitates OB who had a heart attack
jogging in the park. A year or so later, she gets pregnant,
immediately thinks of the OB.

"Now comes a little glitch in the plans. The baby is due
Sept. 22 - the same time <OB> will be in Europe. Neither
the <parents> nor <OB> wanted another doctor to handle the
delivery, so they decided to induce labor Thursday."
(Thursday is 38w3d by my count.)

"It was never an issue of if I was going to be there," <OB>
said. "It was never discussed. I wouldn't have it any
other way." The baby already weighs about 7 1/2 pounds, he
said, so it's big enough to be born."

Nice how the doctor's desire to be there means an early
induction, not a rescheduling of his vacation. :P

Phoebe :)

[Dagny]

"Phoebe & Allyson" > wrote in message
...
> On the front of the "Local" section in today's paper.
> Female paramedic resuscitates OB who had a heart attack
> jogging in the park. A year or so later, she gets pregnant,
> immediately thinks of the OB.
>
> "Now comes a little glitch in the plans. The baby is due
> Sept. 22 - the same time <OB> will be in Europe. Neither
> the <parents> nor <OB> wanted another doctor to handle the
> delivery, so they decided to induce labor Thursday."
> (Thursday is 38w3d by my count.)
>

It might be extremely educational for your local population if someone were
to petition the court as next friend of the child for an injunction to stop
the parents from going forward with their induction on the grounds that it
could result in irreparable harm to the baby -- cite statistics on
iatrogenic prematurity because of due date errors, error rate of estimation
of fetal weight, etc. The result would be like a "trial" of elective
induction.

But who has time?

-- Dagny
EDD 10/6/03