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Originally Posted by nittanyalum
I'm still not saying I'm 100% on the "It's Bristol's baby!" bandwagon, but I am saying that I disagree with all those saying it's not her case to prove. Baloney. Not with the high-stakes political game she was trying to play. You want people to shut up and stop "spreading rumors"? Produce a birth certificate. Produce a hospital record. Produce your own doctor, for heaven's sake. Who, by the way, is a family practitioner, not an OB/GYN. So a 43-year-old with a high-risk pregnancy and a special needs child was not referred to a specialist, but instead relied on her regular family doctor to give her prenatal care and deliver a child that might have needed special attention as soon as he was born? AND she won't make a definitive statement that she delivered the governor's baby in April? The hospital didn't make an announcement that the governor had chosen their facility to have her baby? No birth announcements or a family photo in the recovery room after the 5th blessing had arrived?
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Not everyone gets referred to a specialist when it is thought that the pregnancy is "high risk." When my aunt was pregnant 8 years ago (she was 40-something at the time), her pregnancy was considered high risk because my cousin was a special needs child (he was thought to have Trisomy 18, i believe). Her regular ob/gyn watched her, and not once was my aunt looked at by a specialist.
I could be mistaken, but although there are "tests" to check for Down Syndrome it isn't considered 100%. When I was in HS, a girl I knew had the amino tests for Down, and tested "positive" (or whatever they call it) but the baby wasn't born with Down.
ETA: It looks like she's pregnant to me.
and again, from the State of Alaska website. Palin, Feb. 26, 2008
http://gov.state.ak.us/photos/govp_washingtondc2008.jpg