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I flew overseas 7-1/2 months pregnant when my husband was stationed in Germany. I had to have a doctor's note that my pregnancy was not complicated before I was allowed to fly.

(NOT that it was comfortable--it wasn't.)

A previous post (can't find it now) said that handling the breasts of a pregnant woman can induce labor. A woman already having early labor should avoid it, as it can intensify contractions, but anyone who has gone past her due date has probably had her husband try this--and believe me, it doesn't work as well as one would hope. At nine months gone, it isn't even FUN! Eating pizza is more strongly statistically linked to inducing labor than sexual foreplay is. Late pregnancy is so uncomfortable, but alas, nature has not made it easy to start labor without medical intervention!

A big shock can definitely cause pre-term labor, but doesn't necessarily. Marianne Pearl's beautiful baby came on time, and I can't think of anyone who has had a worse shock during pregnancy than she did, God bless her. (Daniel Pearl's widow, for those of you who can't place the name.)

I agree with those who say that it's rather absurd to blame a C-section on having had a bad shock. Nevertheless, some doctor or nurse may have made it easier for him to draw that faulty conclusion--it need not be one he reached without authority confirming it. Honestly, I can't see being in the same room with this man and not being forced to admit it was possible. If one of my babies had flipped to breech during an altercation, yeah, I'd have blamed my adversary! It's not rational but it is reasonable. I also think that it is the obligation of men to protect pregnant women from shocks ANYWAY...and that includes security agents as well as husbands. Anybody who makes things harder on a pregnant woman unnecessarily deserves to die a horrible death (she says, not quite facetiously.)