YES YES YES!!!
With the "over due" I'd also add that EDD stands for EXPECTED DUE DATE .... however as soon as you go past that it becomes the most crucial thing, and the EXPECTED is all but forgotten.
Failure to waitDEFINITELY!
Demand feeding ... I say feeding on cue so it doesn't make the baby sound evil
Also the whole "girls" thing when describing grown women. It's a bit patronising to call a 20 or 30 something woman a girl when she is pregnant or in labour or whatever. I also think it perpetuates societies obsession with youth, rather than acknowledging the natural aging process.
And C/sec birth. It's not a birth (not to offend anyone, i've had two c/secs) it's surgery. The way doctors refer to it as a birth allows society to continue accepting the rising c/sec rate without question. This is dangerous to women and babies, and enables doctors to keep making money from doing MAJOR SURGERY on perfectly healthy women and babies.
I also hate hearing about doctors who will "allow a trial of labour" in vbac. Footballers don't have trials of hamstring and football isn't a natural bodily function like birth. The doctor who said "once a c/sec, always a c/sec" said it in 1911 and it's pretty obvious that surgical techniques have improved somewhat since then.
As for incompetent cervix, I would remove incompetent and use a proper description, like "thin cervix"![]()




DEFINITELY!

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