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Glad to see this guy has his priorities in life straight.

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shmokes:
Hmm . . . my position is reversed somewhat.  I was unaware of some of the risks involved with induction, but from the little bit I've read since jumping on Google to show Chad what a stubborn jackass he is, I've learned that it does appear that women who induce shortly before their due date (who had uncomplicated pregnancies) have more forcep and vacuum deliveries as well as C-sections due to fetal distress compared with women who wait for labor to begin naturally (who also had uncomplicated pregnancies).  Electively induced babies also have a greater rate of being admitted to intensive care following birth (again studies of women who had uncomplicated pregnancies).

So maybe it was a bad decision.  However, I don't think the husband is necessarily a jackass.  His wife might have insisted on it, and their doctor may have understated the risks.  Many doctors flatly refuse to do elective induction, so the fact that their doctor even presented it as an option suggests that they may have had every reason to believe that it was perfectly safe.

edit:  Shardian posted while I was typing this.

Howard_Casto:
My personal opinion is that anybody who puts football before ANYTHING has their priorities wrong.  People seem to think it's some sort of event and that they are a part of it or something.  It is a televison program.  Your home team has no real relevance to your hometown because they draft players from all over the country, leaving most teams with 2 or fewer players that are actully from that town.

To think that somebody would be more excited over attending the broadcast of some stupid television program over the birth of their child disgusts me. Seriously words can't describe how that makes me feel. This guy must be a real gem.  Bet he cheats on his wife and beats the kid.  Arm chair quarterbacks desperately trying to reclaim the 15 minutes of glory when the scored the winning goal on their high school football team tend to do that.

mccoy178:
I'm pretty sure Chad doesn't beat his wife or kids. :dunno

shmokes:
Admittedly, I just skimmed the article, but all I got was that they guy had tickets to the game and so his wife induced three days early.  Did the article indicate that he was not excited about the birth of his child?  Couldn't he have been excited about both events?  I guess I assumed that they induced so that he wouldn't miss the football game, not so that he wouldn't miss the birth of his child.

Again, I don't think induction was the right choice, and the doctor should not have done it.  But are you guys sure that you aren't inventing areas of the story to make it seem worse than it is?

ChadTower:

Actually, I reduced it:

1)  She induced early so he could attend an entertainment event.
2)  She increased her risk of several dangerous aspects of child labor, many of them with portentially permanent consequences to both her and the child.
3)  He participated in the decision making.

She is wrong, very wrong, but he is far far worse in this scenario.

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