Posted By n/a on 03/12/2008 12:27 AM
Found this about Dr. Amy Tuteur:

From the back of her book:
"Amy B. Tuteur, M.D. has delivered thousands of babies and given birth to three of her own. ... Currently (1994), "

 

Is it just me that is scared by this thought?  I mean really...the picture of "Dr. Amy" that is posted on her website looks like she is *at most* in her late 40's.  So she'd have been graduating from medical school in the mid-80's, and then on to her residency/internships.  Giving the benefit of the doubt, lets say that she started catching babies in 1984--10 years before this comment about her delivering "thousands" of babies was written.  To qualify as "thousands," that means at least 2 thousand.  So she was catching a minimum of 200 babies a year???  That would mean she saw 14 prenatal clients (a healthy woman tends to have 14 prenatal visits during pregnancy--even though I read an article once that said that research showed that anything over 8 really didn't improve maternal/fetal outcomes) and caught a baby EVERY working day of the year (52 weeks in the year, 5 work days per week, assume that she took 10 holidays, but no vacation or sick time).

 

Ummmm...did she fit GYN patients in there anywhere?

 

What kind of a super-human person is this woman, really?

 

Or...here's a thought..."Dr. Amy" has put up a fake picture.  Is the real Dr. Amy actually retirement age, and as such, had already put in a good 30 years of catching babies prior to writing her stupid book in 1994.  And really, it is stupid--you can read it for free on her "Ask Dr. Amy" website.  She insists that the "real work of labor" doesn't start until pushing stage...gee, so the 33 hrs I spent in labor with my first daughter was less "work" than the 20 minutes I spent pushing?  She writes in a very condescending tone that indicates that she doesn't believe that her reader--an expectant mother--can really handle language above about a 5th grade level.