One mom's point of view:
I think knew right away this story sounded completely unbelievable. The more you hear, the weirder it sounds.
There's no option where Palin sounds smart or reasonable here.
It's her baby, and yet she's taking long plane rides at 8 months pregnant to give a speech. She's leaking amniotic fluid -- where I'm betting 99 percent of doctors would say what mine did -- get to a hospital now! (And I was full-term at the time. Said I wanted to take a shower and needed to drop my 3-year-old off at pre-school and then my husband and I would be at the hospital. No, get to the hospital now. You're at risk for infection. If your membranes are ruptured completely, you're at risk for a prolapsed umbilical cord, where the cord comes out first, baby presses against it and cuts off his own oxygen supply.)
And they wouldn't let me go more than 24 hours with ruptured membranes before doing a C-section. Too great a risk of infection.
These are my pregnancy experiences. I'm sure there are many women on this site who will say they experienced the same things.
I bet there's no one here who's ever been pregnant who had a doctor who said, If you're leaking amniotic fluid, it's ok to stay and give a speech and then fly home for 11 hours. Not a single one.
We know this story stinks. She's lying. Or she's a terrible mother and not very smart.
And if she's elected, she will not hesitate to try to tell me and my daughter what we can do with our own bodies should we become pregnant.
That's why it's relevant. She wants to stick her nose into everyone's pregnancies. We have a right to know about hers.
