Sharing the experience of normal vaginal birth is an important formative experience for medical students
Hearing or knowing “I’ve done this before” would, no doubt, be more comforting to both the labouring woman and the doctor than “Well, I’ve delivered three plastic babies — with a good deal of KY jelly — how much harder can it be?”
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