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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My cousins wife had a very uneventful pregnancy up until the end. Just as she was approaching her due date, she suddenly developed preeclampsia. She was fit and healthy and not AMA. She was a former college athlete and ran marathons. Anyway, things turned very grave overnight. She almost died, and the medical interventions that had to be used to save her life took a real toll on the baby. As soon as he was born, he was rushed from that hospital to a nearby children’s hospital, where they had to sedate him and take measures to prevent brain damage. In an instant, my cousin had to choose whose side to be at, his wife’s, because the doctors weren’t sure at that point that they could save her or his baby’s, because the doctors were also very concerned about his condition. He couldn’t be two places at once.

No one expects anything like that to happen to your team member’s DIL, but I say all this to point out the even for a pregnancy that isn’t high risk, the birth is the riskiest part of the pregnancy and things can turn on a dime. It’s not crazy that this woman doesn’t want to risk being further away in the event that the birth doesn’t go smoothly.[/quote]

Something similar happened to my brother and SIL. The delivery became complicated and life-threatening for both mom and baby and SIL needed an emergency C-section and baby was rushed to the NICU on a ventilator. SIL's parents were at the hospital and they had all discussed "what if" scenarios ahead of time so my brother was able to immediately go with the baby to the NICU and his in-laws stayed with his wife. Patients who have family members/friends there to advocate for them and monitor and keep track of things do better. SIL and my niece both fully recovered. This is very much a personal decision for each family with lots of very good reasons behind it and boss should stay out of it. Not your place to effectively make this decision for another family, OP.[/quote]

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