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“You’ll suffer naturally because you’re toxic,” my doctor husband sneered, blocking the nurses from performing a C-section for my giant 10-pound baby as revenge for his intern. I writhed in pain, clutching the bed rails until my knuckles turned white. When the grueling delivery finally ended, the heavy delivery room doors banged open. My husband staggered in, his face drained of color as he looked at the newborn chart, fell to the floor, and shrieked, “No… that’s impossible! Whose child is-“

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I was Dr. Allison Palmer, Chief of Emergency Medicine at a Level 1 trauma center. I did not need a textbook to translate the biological horror unfolding within my own body. Attempting to force a natural extraction of a fetus this immense guaranteed catastrophic perineal laceration, imminent uterine rupture, and inevitable exsanguination.

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