Meghan Rothenberger

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The Nocturnists · Lost & Found with Meghan Rothenberger, MD · 15 Feb 2024 podcast

Not fine.

I am 31 characters over the limit, like a character, like a letter or a space.

And I panic.

It's as if someone said to me, guess what?

You weren't even fully dilated before.

You weren't even pushing.

And guess what else?

It's the 1800s.

There's no epidurals.

There's no C-section.

There's not even a doctor in this town.

And then I imagine in my head Yoshi downstairs frantically boiling some water and gathering clean towels.

So I enter the final phase of labor.

The first thing I do is I invent some very creative compound words, because spaces count, like I told you.

And then I use my thesaurus, and I turn long words into short words that mean sort of the same thing.

And by the end, I have no idea if the abstract makes any sense, but I'm done.

I birthed this baby all by myself.

She's not that cute, but like all good parents, I totally ignore that fact, and I submit it.

I have eight minutes to spare.

I wait to feel relief, but it doesn't come.

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