Funny Things the Dr Said

[Nanasi]

Every once in a while I see a post where someone mentions something their OB or pediatrician said that just seems to me like it's out of left field.

Today our pediatrician told us that our 4-month old twins don't sleep through the night because they have an "attitude problem." (What!? I thought I wouldn't have to deal with attitude problems until they were at least 18 months old.)

This comment just made my husband and I chuckle and roll our eyes. So I thought I'd share it with you all and ask you to share your own "Did they really say that?" moments.

[klocke]

Mine isn't my OB but the nurse. She asked me last week during my initial exam before the dr. came in (34 weeks pregnant mind you) if I was having frequent urination or back pain during the day? Umm all the time. I kind of looked at her for a second and realized she was serious. Do you really have to ask a pregnant woman that especially one with twins? Told her yes since about 14 weeks, LOL.

[Intertwined]

I had a homeopath tell me once that babies didn't need breast milk after 6 months of age because cow's milk was fine and that I should NEVER EVER EVER sleep with my baby because it caused them to be dependent on their parents. Needless to say we changed homeopaths.

[tanana25]

I was talking to my doctor the other day about labor and how much I would be able to move around, etc. She told me that I should be pretty free to move because they wouldn't have a hard time monitoring me, because "you're not a large woman." I could have kissed her after I practically fell off the table laughing. I know what she meant, my belly doesn't have a ton of fat on it, and it is easy to check the babies. But I am pregnant with twins and coming up on 240 lbs. any time now. Now whenever I look at my gigantic self in the mirror I think "you are not a large woman!"

[SuzyQ2+2]

Originally Posted by tanana25

I was talking to my doctor the other day about labor and how much I would be able to move around, etc. She told me that I should be pretty free to move because they wouldn't have a hard time monitoring me, because "you're not a large woman." I could have kissed her after I practically fell off the table laughing. I know what she meant, my belly doesn't have a ton of fat on it, and it is easy to check the babies. But I am pregnant with twins and coming up on 240 lbs. any time now. Now whenever I look at my gigantic self in the mirror I think "you are not a large woman!"

Ha ha! The anesthesiologist who was doing my spinal before my c-section said 'oh this should be easy you're tiny'...telling a woman who is 37 weeks preggo with twins that she is tiny = AWESOME

[RadTwins]

Yesterday at my 27 week appointment, my OB looked at my cervix on the ultrasound screen and proclaimed, "your cervix is a moose!"

I had to clarify that this is a good thing, which apparently it is, as it means that it has not begun to decrease in size or efface at all, so no signs of preterm labor yet.

He also said, based on observation that I must be doing well becuase I was smiling, sitting casually and "you still have ankles."

Some of these OB's are a bit quirky me thinks.

[verycozy]

One of the high risk OBs I had to see (because of dumb local policy) told me that my spontaneously occurring twins were problematic because "the uterus is not meant to carry a litter."

He then told me not to go on a "see food diet" and then laughed at his own clever joke.

My husband told me I actually snarled at the doctor.

[Kat's Mommy]

With every visit, our Pediatric Nurse kept telling me that my son had jaundice. My daughter is quite a bit more fair skinned (like my eldest).

At the last visit, she said it again. I finally just said, with a smile..."he doesn't have jaundice...he's Asian!"

Picture of my twins on my blog (www.xanga.com/almey)

[verycozy]

Do doctors only learn what jaundice looks like on very white babies? Two of my kids have mediterranean coloring, and one pediatrician said DS1 was severely jaundiced and would suffer mental retardation (!) if we didn't give him formula. His bilirubin levels turned out to be totally normal. When the twins were born we knew enough not to dress them in yellow and not to pay any attention to so-called visual jaundice diagnosis.

[Intertwined]

Interesting! While my children are lily white NOW, they come out with quite a dark complextion (and indeed, even though they are WHITE, they don't burn thanks to native american on my side and italian on DH's side). EVERY SINGLE BABY 'someone' was concerened about jaundice. And while the first two did have mild cases of normal newborn jaundice, no one was ever in need of more than a little sun and some milk. When Hannah was a baby the nurse was absolutely sure she'd have to be hospitalized and she was fine. I've learned how to determine jaundice now because of my midwifery studies and I shake my head at those people.

[OGirlieMama]

I am shaking my head and laughing simultaneously at some of these!

I guess the only funny thing I can think of is when I was asking my OB if it would be safe for me to fly to Hawaii (from NY) when I was 20 weeks pregnant with my twins. He said yes, he would approve of that, but warned me that I would be "Bigger than you can IMAGINE (and spread his arms out waaaaaay wide) at 20 weeks." I was way bigger than my SIL who we were visited and who was the same amount pregnant with a singleton, but the "bigger than you can IMAGINE" part still makes me giggle.