Calcified Placenta: The Convenient Diagnosis of the Unconvinced”

At 32 weeks they floated the phrase “possible placental calcification,”

a term physicians sometimes use the way lawyers use “allegedly.”

It wasn’t presenting clinically.

It wasn’t supported by my labs.

It wasn’t behaving like a legitimate complication.

But it was extremely convenient for their scheduling matrix.

Still — I agreed to induction only because I assessed every factor myself.

And my son arrived completely healthy, small but mighty, a perfect little 4-pound miracle who held onto my finger like he’d been waiting centuries to meet me.

This moment crystallized something:

they don’t always know more — sometimes they simply talk louder.

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