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Doctors Share 33 Weird, Unworldly, And Seriously Concerning Things They've Heard From Pregnant Women
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Hey Pandas, What's Your Silliest Family Story?
When I was a child, I was a very picky eater. Everybody in the family knew because I would always make a fuss about food whenever my family was invited to dinner at a relative's home. One day while I was at my grandmother's house, she gave me a peach to eat. I love peaches but unfortunately I found a worm inside while eating this one. I showed the rest of the family the worm and everybody was also grossed out. But my uncle suddenly went "I'll give you $200 if you eat this worm" in front of the whole family. The look on his face when I instantly swallowed the worm as soon as he said those words was amazing. I asked for the money and he tried to avoid giving it to me and saying that he never expected me to do it because I was such a picky eater. Fortunately my grandma was there and she forced him to give me the $200. I was a 10 year old with $200 and she gained a story that she still enjoys telling to visitors till this day.Hey Pandas, What's Your Silliest Family Story?
When I was a child, I was a very picky eater. Everybody in the family knew because I would always make a fuss about food whenever my family was invited to dinner at a relative's home. One day while I was at my grandmother's house, she gave me a peach to eat. I love peaches but unfortunately I found a worm inside while eating this one. I showed the rest of the family the worm and everybody was also grossed out. But my uncle suddenly went "I'll give you $200 if you eat this worm" in front of the whole family. The look on his face when I instantly swallowed the worm as soon as he said those words was amazing. I asked for the money and he tried to avoid giving it to me and saying that he never expected me to do it because I was such a picky eater. Fortunately my grandma was there and she forced him to give me the $200. I was a 10 year old with $200 and she gained a story that she still enjoys telling to visitors till this day.
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My Dad was a GP (he retired about ten years ago). He had a couple - lovely people, very young, a bit unworldly - come to see him to discuss their failure to conceive, about thirty years ago, when I was ten or so. He was bright enough to ask what they were doing in bed. They had BOTH somehow come to the conclusion that what was needed to make a baby was penis/belly button contact. I have no idea how anybody was getting any satisfaction, or how on earth they kept believing this after doing it once - it must have been a horrible experience. He explained (literally) the facts of life to them, and on coming home had THE TALK with me and my brother, just in case we were also stupid. The couple in question ended up with two kids. Good old Dad.weirdest-things-heard-from-a-pregnant-woman
I’m a midwife. I was booking a woman at the beginning of her pregnancy and she wasn’t exactly pleased about being pregnant. I asked her if she was sure she wanted to continue the pregnancy (there’s no point me booking her if she wants a termination). She starts ranting about how it was the soft drinks industry’s fault and how she’s going to sue them. I was pretty confused at this point and asked her what she meant. She informed me that she had been washing her vagina out with cola following sex and that she must have bought a bad batch as she was now pregnant. I went to see a woman who had delivered her first baby a few days previously. I knew she had had stitches but she seemed to be in a lot of pain. I asked her if she wanted me to check them and she consented, and when I did, I got a strong whiff of chemicals. I asked her what she was using to clean her vaginal area with (we advise women to just use water for the first few days). She told me she was using Dettol (a household disinfectant here in the UK) as she always used it in her kitchen and she’d never got ill from her food, so it must work in preventing infections. A few words with me and when I saw her the next time she was moving around freely like she was in a tampax commercial. This one isn’t really to do with sexual education but was really a WTF moment. We have bags that are given away to new parents and they have free samples in - baby wash, fabric conditioner, nappy cream etc. I examined a baby who was 10 days old and her skin was almost red raw in places. I thought it was the worst case of eczema that I had ever seen and that she should get the baby checked out at the hospital. While I was trying to get through to them I asked her if she had been bathing the baby in anything (again we advise using water only for the first couple of weeks). English wasn’t her first language but her husband came home at that point and translated for me. They had received a free sample of fabric conditioner in the pack. This had a picture of a smiling baby in the front. They assumed this was baby soap, had bought a massive bottle of it, and had then bathed the baby in it. Neat. Luckily the baby had no lasting effects.Show All 13 Upvotes
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I’m a midwife. I was booking a woman at the beginning of her pregnancy and she wasn’t exactly pleased about being pregnant. I asked her if she was sure she wanted to continue the pregnancy (there’s no point me booking her if she wants a termination). She starts ranting about how it was the soft drinks industry’s fault and how she’s going to sue them. I was pretty confused at this point and asked her what she meant. She informed me that she had been washing her vagina out with cola following sex and that she must have bought a bad batch as she was now pregnant. I went to see a woman who had delivered her first baby a few days previously. I knew she had had stitches but she seemed to be in a lot of pain. I asked her if she wanted me to check them and she consented, and when I did, I got a strong whiff of chemicals. I asked her what she was using to clean her vaginal area with (we advise women to just use water for the first few days). She told me she was using Dettol (a household disinfectant here in the UK) as she always used it in her kitchen and she’d never got ill from her food, so it must work in preventing infections. A few words with me and when I saw her the next time she was moving around freely like she was in a tampax commercial. This one isn’t really to do with sexual education but was really a WTF moment. We have bags that are given away to new parents and they have free samples in - baby wash, fabric conditioner, nappy cream etc. I examined a baby who was 10 days old and her skin was almost red raw in places. I thought it was the worst case of eczema that I had ever seen and that she should get the baby checked out at the hospital. While I was trying to get through to them I asked her if she had been bathing the baby in anything (again we advise using water only for the first couple of weeks). English wasn’t her first language but her husband came home at that point and translated for me. They had received a free sample of fabric conditioner in the pack. This had a picture of a smiling baby in the front. They assumed this was baby soap, had bought a massive bottle of it, and had then bathed the baby in it. Neat. Luckily the baby had no lasting effects.
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Not a midwife but did have an acquaintance who got pregnant while her husband was in the army deployed. She had convinced her husband that they needed to try and get pregnant. So how do they resolve the issue of long distance and time? They concocted the plan of using a turkey baster, where the husband actually mailed a package of his little soldiers to her and she used the baster on her self to impregnate herself. No doctors were consulted during this time. And this story all came to light in divorce court when someone actually convinced the husband the baby was not his.
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I’ve told this story before, but it bears repeating... I worked as a telephone triage nurse and received a call from a very concerned young lady. She said that she was pregnant and had gone to an appointment with her OB-GYN that day and had some questions. This was relatively common; patients can sometimes feel rushed in the doctor’s office or forget the questions they were going to ask, so they call and ask us later. Me: Ok, no problem! How can I help? Pregnant lady: Well, the doctor told me I can’t have any more s*x until after the baby is born! Me: (Looking at her record in the computer) Ok. I see you’re pretty far along and were having some pre-term contractions, which can be caused by s*x. So the doctor recommends no s*x so that the baby doesn’t come too early. Pregnant lady: BUT HOW WILL I FEED THE BABY?!? Me: Ummmm....what? Turns out, her male partner convinced her that babies needed to eat semen to develop, and this could only be done with PIV s*x. I told her this was totally wrong and gave her a quick lesson about the umbilical cord. She was skeptical until I pointed out that single women and lesbians have perfectly healthy babies without constant s*x. “Oh, ok! That makes sense!” she said. Then she thanked me and started to hang up the phone- I could hear her calling her partner’s name as she hung up. Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for that conversation!
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A heavily pregnant woman put her finger in her belly button and pulled out something gross. She immiediatly freaked out, making her husband freak out as well. She called my friend, who is a doctor specializing in ob/gyn, and almost cried on the phone: Preggo: "Help!! I just pulled something out of my belly button!!" My friend, MD: "... yeah??" Preggo: "So... have I removed a plug or something? Have I hurt the baby??" My friend, MD: "But you just pulled something gross from your own belly button.. right?" Preggo: "Yeah but.. isn't my belly botton connected to the babys belly button? Isn't that how she gets all of her nutrients and stuff?" And then they had a looong talk about the uterus, placenta and where our belly buttons originate from. Mind you, this isn't about the preggo not being educated, she is a lawyer. But she caught pregnancybrain. And had a laugh about it afterwards :)weirdest-things-heard-from-a-pregnant-woman
My Dad was a GP (he retired about ten years ago). He had a couple - lovely people, very young, a bit unworldly - come to see him to discuss their failure to conceive, about thirty years ago, when I was ten or so. He was bright enough to ask what they were doing in bed. They had BOTH somehow come to the conclusion that what was needed to make a baby was penis/belly button contact. I have no idea how anybody was getting any satisfaction, or how on earth they kept believing this after doing it once - it must have been a horrible experience. He explained (literally) the facts of life to them, and on coming home had THE TALK with me and my brother, just in case we were also stupid. The couple in question ended up with two kids. Good old Dad.
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