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There's No Dignity in Pregnancy
So, when one is knocked up, one anticipates annoying comments and unfortunately embarrassing situations. When I was pregnant with Felix, I triggered a miserable "Is there a doctor in the house?" situation on an airplane that left me mortified, even more so that I had to tell my tale of possible woe to a osteopath who wasn't sure how much of this stuff he could remember from medical school. I suspect I was a bit impatient and agitated. Things did turn out to be fine, but it didn't make for a really comfortable chuckle when I ran into him again on the return trip.
And of course there are endless stories about water breaking in well-lit places with plenty of human traffic.
But Gothamist today pointed out a story that sort of takes the cake for me: going into labor and delivering a baby in the middle of a Brooklyn bus route (happily the bus pulled over).
According to the New York Post article that covers this in detail, there is some debate over whether this baby will have free MTA rides for the rest of her life (various MTA employees apparently thought there was some policy about this, though MTA spokespeople deny it). If you ask me, the poor mother is the one who could use the break.
But maybe she's going to be reluctant to get on the B15 bus for a while.
posted by Elise at 7:04 PM
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