nurse with weight fixation --very irritating.

[roostery]

So everytime I get this one nurse she tsk tsk's about how much weight I've gained. Not like its ever been very much --maybe 4 or 5 lbs/month, max.

So this time I go in and she is all tsk tsking about the pound I gained over the last two weeks, and then she is taking my blood pressure with a GIGANTIC cuff and I comment on it because I am swimming in extra cuff, and she says that when people are over 150 lbs she always uses the big cuff. I'M PREGNANT!! I am not that big, I do not have big arms, she is just obsessed with weight!

[Hippiemommie]

Refuse to do weight checks anymore. I actually gained MORE with DS 1 when I was constantly worried about weight gain than this time. I think the stress caused me to eat more.

[DoomaYula]

Yeah, I started refusing weight checks -- at the high risk mfm, no less! -- when I hit about 220 with my twin boys. Everyone was nice but I just went ape and started screeching that I was tired of stepping on the scale and I was pregnant with twins and my weight was fine, thankyouverymuch and LEAVE ME ALONE!

Apparently even a high risk mfm doc was scared of a crazy pregnant woman.

But on a more serious note, I'm about 270 right now, or at least I was when I got on a scale 2w ago. Meh. My hb mw doesn't seem concerned. Sometimes I need the bigger cuff, sometimes not.

[anonymamadaddy]

Yeah... don't get on the scale.

[Ammaarah]

You should tell the receptionist you don't want to be roomed by that nurse. She's a piece of work.

[echospiritwarrior]

Originally Posted by Ammaarah

You should tell the receptionist you don't want to be roomed by that nurse. She's a piece of work.

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[IfMamaAintHappy]

that sucks. you need to report her for weight discrimination!

[aylaanne]

IMO that's a bad nurse. I started this pg at 150 and I still don't need a large cuff. And a pound a week is what you should be gaining at this point, so I don't know what she's tsking about.

[durafemina]

I agree. . .that woman sounds like a fixated nut! 150 pounds needs a bigger cuff?!?!?:

[roostery]

Thanks guys, I was just sitting there steaming in the mw's office thinking, I am soooo going on mdc about this when I get home. They'll understand.

[kleines]

What a crummy nurse. I really don't get why people go into these jobs if they hate them so much, or hate people..whatever. It's not like nursing is and easy career to get into, It is a lot of schooling these days. Why would you go through all that if you didn't enjoy it? IDK.

I definitely agree with PP, refuse to see THAT nurse. If you can't do that then just refuse the weight check. I would really complain to the DR or MW in charge too. That kind of behavior reflects on the whole practice.

[Miny20]

I started my pregnancy just over 250! I'm 272 now (at 40 weeks)... and no one has said a damned thing about my weight my entire pregnancy! Even when I brought it up--so that I made sure they didn't say something first, no one even batted an eye lash!

I'm sorry you have to deal with that crap.

[Hippiemommie]

Originally Posted by Miny20

I started my pregnancy just over 250! I'm 272 now (at 40 weeks)... and no one has said a damned thing about my weight my entire pregnancy! Even when I brought it up--so that I made sure they didn't say something first, no one even batted an eye lash!

I'm sorry you have to deal with that crap.

Yep me too and I've never had to use "the big cuff" either!

[2bluefish]

That's stinky! I've weighed myself this time around - I seem to gain less when I know the number - don't know why, maybe it was a coincedence. I'm still wearing my post partum shirts from ds. So... either I grossly over estimated how fat I was after ds or I gained way too much with him.

[fourgrtkidos]

I know I am crashing your due date club, but I am a Midwifery student and a RN.....

A large cuff is for people with big arms, it has nothing to do with weight. I have met, just like all of you, women who are 150 lbs and carry their weight in their hips and thighs and have small arms...
Refuse care from this nurse..... talk to the office manager or the OB/ midwife.....
Or, when whe tries to take your BP with the big cuff say "My friend that is a RN says a big cuff on me will give a false low reading...." some "office nurses" are not really a nurse, often they are medical assistants and have practical training that does not include theory. They often do not know what they are talking about!!

Weight is good, we want those babies with some brown fat on them when they are born!!!!
~Blessings, Michelle

[Hippiemommie]

Originally Posted by fourgrtkidos

Or, when whe tries to take your BP with the big cuff say "My friend that is a RN says a big cuff on me will give a false low reading...." some "office nurses" are not really a nurse, often they are medical assistants and have practical training that does not include theory. They often do not know what they are talking about!!
~Blessings, Michelle

Yep! I remember them saying this in my RN training about the false low reading!

[Vicitoria]

The cuff can make a difference. Although I think that 150 pounds at the end of a pregnancy is no where near heavy I'm heavier to begin with. One nurse took my BP with the smaller cuff and the doc said if my BP didn't come down I'd need medication. Next time they used a larger cuff and it was fine. The doc doesn't take the BP, the nurse does and they don't necessary communicate what cuff they used.

[Liam's Mum]

Originally Posted by roostery

and she says that when people are over 150 lbs she always uses the big cuff. I'M PREGNANT!! I am not that big, I do not have big arms, she is just obsessed with weight!

I'm well over 150 at this point, and for someone of my build, I think that's actually not excessive. No one has told me I need a "big cuff" anyway. . I know lots of women who are that weight NOT pg and aren't big for heaven's sake!

The nurse at my old OB's office used to be so surprised at my weight and tell me I didn't look like I weighed what I did, which is good I guess? And the month I gained 10 lbs, she just held up fingers, didn't want to say it aloud. LOL And I gained I think 33 lbs total, which is in the OK range, and you know what, I've gained the same this time, and the m/w haven't said a thing, even when I'm gaining 2 lbs a week!

[Dena]

This woman gets excited because you are ONLY gaining a pound a week? Isn't that what you are supposed to gain? Yeah, I would request to be roomed by a different nurse from now on. That is just ridiculous.