Re: Birth circumstances poll

From: DoctorJoe (DoctorJoe@aol.com)
Wed May 6 14:51:14 1998


In a message dated 5/6/98 2:44:36 PM, you wrote:

<<One thing is remarkable. Birth circumstances are rarely simple in those Obstetricians. Is this the cause for their choicing this specialty??>>

Maybe so.

I was a 9# 15 3/4 ounce first born of a smoking mother. (Yes, I'm probably glad she smoked... her father was said to have been over 12#!!!).

I was also the sensitizing Rh+ first child of an Rh- mother. My sister came next, but she was Rh-, no problem. My little brother, on the other hand, was Rh+ and was so jaundiced in the nursery, the Korean nurse took a liking to him, since he was a "familiar" color, so the story goes. After that, my mother had a baby who died in utero of hydrops fetalis, with whom she got severely toxemic. She had a hysterectomy sometime after that...

Joe P.





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