"I Did It My Way"

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I was seeing Diane throughout her pregnancy and she was doing well. She came in the day after her due date and told me she had fired her OBGYN because her doctor said he was going to schedule a c-section. Diane had been a candidate for a VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean). The doctor thought that since it was after her due date and the baby was large that a caesarean was the only option. When Diane told him he was fired, he reconsidered and said he’d let her go another week or so.

That day, as I worked with her I felt the baby’s head engage. We laughingly made an appointment for the following week knowing she wouldn’t be coming.

I looked out the window a week later and saw her trudging across the parking lot to my office. Again we worked and this time I “saw” her walking up and down the hospital corridor in labor. She got off the table and had her first contraction. That night she went to the hospital and gave birth to an 11 lb 6 oz baby boy without any drugs. She also delivered a gigantic hemorrhoid and had surgery for it two days later!