Gynecologists and O.Bs. What is the most mind-blowing thing a husband or boyfriend has said?

Story from my internship. I checked a woman who was not progressing in labour and thought,

That's not a head. Sure enough, the baby was breach. She was a very tiny woman, and this was a

large baby, so it was pretty clear that she would need a C-section. She was a recent immigrant from a

small, third-world country, didn't have a partner with her, and spoke absolutely no English.

Unfortunately, nobody in the unit spoke her language. I tried my best to mime and explain what

was happening and what we were recommending. She nodded yes, but I had a strong sense she didn't

understand the explanation.

We sent somebody down to housekeeping and the cafeteria, hoping we could find any hospital

staff who could translate. Fortunately, we found someone able to translate. It turns out that she

understood the baby was breach, but that she thought we would have to literally cut her open and

kill her in order to save the baby.

Her relief and joy when she finally understood what the plan was was something I won't forget.

The staff member from housekeeping was wonderful and stayed to support her until she went into the OR.

My mum was a general practitioner. She once had a 15-year-old girl come in who had a pregnancy test show positive, but was adamant

that she couldn't be pregnant. My mum confirmed the pregnancy, but the girl still refused to believe

it was true. She went on to explain to my mum, it was impossible for her to get pregnant, because

her boyfriend had told her that if she laid completely still during the deed, then she wasn't

technically doing it, and couldn't get pregnant. I was kind of

refraining from commenting on any of these stories until I read this crap. This is the kind of loophole

you use with the church, not with your doctor, and I can't stop laughing. I worked in a pharmacy,

and we noticed that a 16-year-old girl was coming back in to pick up her birth control exactly two weeks early every month.

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