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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
Thoughtful Thursdays! “It Doesn’t Even Look Like A Baby Has Come Out Of There!”
‘It doesn’t even look like a baby has come out of there!’ – Home birth midwife doing postpartum exam on woman who has just given birth to her second baby.
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Birth Unplugged had this to say,
Apr 29, 2010 @ 4:35 pm (Quote)
I agree, this is a welcome sight after all of the talk of exploding vaginae!
(I did not know that “vaginae” was the plural of “vagina,” but spell check gives wavy red lines on “vaginas” and it gives me that as a suggestion. It’s also “exploding uteri” and not “exploding uteruses”)
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Heather P Reply:
April 29th, 2010 at 6:01 pm (Quote)
Good to know. I knew Uteri was the plural of uterus. Vaginae I’m not so sure of.
Oh, I looked it up. The British plural of vagina is vaginae. Vaginas is also correct and acceptable.
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Laura Reply:
April 29th, 2010 at 6:59 pm (Quote)
This Latin teacher would encourage you to use either, and thinks “vaginae” looks weeeeiiiiirrrd. That’s my expert opinion. 
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Stephanie Reply:
April 30th, 2010 at 7:46 am (Quote)
I knew it was only a matter of time before some good Latin creeped its way in. 
Although vaginae looks odd, I’d err on the side of Latin caution. Plus, how often do we have to talk about more than one vagina? I’m honestly only concerned about my own. haha (My problem with uterus is that all I can think of is a stupid Simpsons reference. “It’s uterUS not, uterYOU.”)
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Ok, I’m going to have to be the jerk here. I don’t care if someone is saying something nice, or something mean. You should not comment on the appearance of my genitalia unless it is relevant to my medical care. “It doesn’t even look like a baby has come out of there” is as bad as “Wow, how many babies have you HAD? It looks really stretched out down here!”. This Thoughtful Thursday isn’t so thoughtful for people like me.
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Sarah B Reply:
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:04 am (Quote)
Thank you! I thought I was going to have to be the first to say something negative about this one. I don’t find this to be any more “thoughtful” than the doctor who told the woman that she could “stick anything up there” when she asked if she could resume intercourse at 6 weeks.
I also agree with the comment below, if this had been an OB (particularly a male) it wouldn’t have been posted on Thoughtful Thursday and everyone would have ripped him apart for being a pervert. In fact, I believe there was a similar post where an OB had told a laboring mom that she had a beautiful vagina and everyone was creeped out and disgusted.
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That’s what I thought, StaudtCJ. If an OB had said this, commenters would have been all over him for being creepy and commenting on the state of her vagina. Since it was a homebirth midwife, I guess it’s OK.
I will say that I would take that remark much more kindly from a HB MW with whom I had a relationship than from an OB I saw 15 minutes once a month for 9 months.
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Better than anticipating exploding vaginas.
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