Reply #7: The guy is an idiot

[Blecht]

He should not be teaching.

It's not that hard -- there's a thing called a syllabus. He should have all the rules clearly laid out in the syllabus for situations like this. Women having babies is not unusual.

One of the worst things an instructor can do is to change or make the rules as the term goes along. Of course there are special circumstances where it might be necessary, but a woman having a baby is not one of them.