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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s hard to know without being there but perhaps you didnt appear aware or concerned about the risks in conceiving and having a baby now. All of us who are getting ready to give birth now got pregnant pre pandemic so we didn’t make a choice to have a baby in the middle of this. If you didn’t have a preconception appointment with your OB to discuss timing and such and then appear to be unaware of COVID risks and that yeah, this isn’t a great time to have a baby, that might explain her demeanor. I’m not saying it’s wrong to choose to have a baby now but you should have been considering the risks when you thought about conceiving and maybe your OB got the vibe that you were being flippant or something. No way to say though without knowing the context. [/quote]
So it's ok for an OB to moralize to patients and chastise them for making a personal decision to start a family during a public health crisis? Which, by the way, isn't having an outsize impact on pregnant people or babies? And are you also aware, many people get pregnant without meaning to? SMH.

https://www.contagionlive.com/news/newborns-not-at-increased-perinatal-covid19-risk

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/practice-advisory/articles/2020/03/novel-coronavirus-2019[/quote]

Show me where OP's OB "moralized and chastised" her.  Saying that now is not a great time to be pregnant because of COVID is neither.  [/quote]

Telling a pregnant woman she shouldn’t have gotten pregnant is just mean. [/quote]

She didn't say that.  She said "that now is not a good time to be pregnant."  I interpret that as a comment about the challenges of COVID, just like someone might say that now is not a good time to start college.  If my OB said that to me, I'd probably agree.[/quote]

If my OB said that I would probably agree and then say  something like" but here I am."  just as a reminder to  check herself and her manner.[/quote]

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