Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“…I Like To…Eat Ice Cream For Dinner Too, But I Don’t Have To Push It Out My Vagina Afterwards.”
“Whoa there! You’d better slow down on that weight gain! I totally understand though, I like to sit down and eat ice cream for dinner too, but I don’t have to push it out of my vagina afterwards.” – Midwife to mother at a prenatal visit.
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Okay. This would be totally offensive to hear in a doctor’s office, but to read it here made me laugh out loud. I think it’s the mental image of birthing an ice cream cone.
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Details Reply:
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:29 am (Quote)
I want to give birth to ice cream. I don’t think you have to get to 10 cm for that. 6 or 7 cm would have been fine. I bet that is cold though! And it is darn hot in front of this computer today. Rude rude doctor in real life, but could be a darn funny skit.
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Guess what? I’m not going to be pushing ice cream out of *MY* vagina, either.
Eugh. Sorry. That was my first thought, and now I can’t get it out of my head.
Sorry, OP, you had to deal with this. 
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Julie Reply:
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:09 pm (Quote)
My first thought too. DS has made the switch to potty, and along with that came the very basic anatomy lesson on what happens to food after we eat it. Even at the tender age of three, he understands that he does not eat food and then push it out of his penis!
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Jessica had this to say,
Jun 22, 2011 @ 10:58 am (Quote)
Oh, so that’s how I’ve been getting pregnant! I never knew ice cream turned into babies. Thanks for the head’s up, doc.
Seriously though, has this doctor even bothered to ask mom about her diet? Does mom even eat sweets or a ton of carbs, or has she simply crept above that magic 20 pounds that’s making up all the components of a baby, blood,amniotic fluid, breast development, and– heaven forbid– fat stores that are all facilitating their upcoming birth?
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Alyson Miers had this to say,
Jun 22, 2011 @ 11:04 am (Quote)
I’d like to be optimistic and think this means, at least, that the OB is invested in the mama birthing vaginally, but realistically, it’s more like if she ends up getting sectioned, “It’s your fault because you’re fat.”
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Last time I checked, my stomach contents didn’t exit through my vagina…they exited through my anus. Anatomy fail!
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And, geez OBs, just because da womenz gain weight it doesn’t always mean the baby is big. I gained 50 and 45 pounds with my pregnancies, and I had 8 lb 9 oz and 7lb 15 oz babies. Late, late babies. Like, three weeks late based off conception dates.
The funny thing is I was totally bummed after the birth of my second because I wanted her to be bigger than her brother. My midwives still shake their heads over that.
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Bonita Reply:
June 22nd, 2011 at 1:05 pm (Quote)
ITA! Although my babies were a bit on the larger side anyway. But I gained 45lbs with my first who was just over 9lbs and I only gained 25 with my second and he was almost 10lbs! Maternal weight gain has very little to do with fetal weight gain.
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Kate Reply:
June 23rd, 2011 at 8:50 am (Quote)
Just because a woman gains weight doesn’t even have to mean *she* is big. I gained over 50 pounds in pregnancy and still had skinny little stick-arms. I guess my body went overboard with the additional blood volume, cause I can’t think of where else I was carrying that weight. My baby was only 8 lbs.
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Julie had this to say,
Jun 22, 2011 @ 11:32 am (Quote)
I don’t think the analogy is that bad, just a preggo version of “man, that cake is going straight to my hips!”… The problem is that it was said by a so called professional trying to shame her. Now, if a pregnant woman made a similar comment about herself (“I gotta lay off the sweets or I’ll be pushing it out later (cause not metabolizing sugar can lead to a bigger baby)!”) would be hilarious, in my opinion.
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m mad as heck that I had the ability to make ice cream in my vagina.
Why have I been paying for ice cream at the store all these years?!?!?!?!?
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You know what the worst thing is about this?
It isn’t the rudeness.
It isn’t the cluelessness.
It isn’t even the fat-shaming.
It’s the fact that sudden weight gain is a medical symptom. It can indicate all manner of health problems. It ought to be something a doctor would be immediately interested in checking out and diagnosing. (This is true even if it resulted from the mother eating too much recently, since appetite changes can also be medical symptoms, and if she’s gaining weight that rapidly, obviously something or other has changed.)
A failure to check out sudden unexpected weight gain or loss is potentially dangerous to both mother and baby. That’s the worst thing about this one.
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Lil had this to say,
Jun 22, 2011 @ 3:23 pm (Quote)
I only gained 2 lb in my last pregnancy, I did start off with *plenty* of reserve lbs though :s baby was 8lb 3oz (one of his brothers was 9 1/2 lb)..I did have a craving for icecream and was eating a tub of Ben and Jerry’s a week…maybe it was the wrong brand.
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Ice Cream Mama had this to say,
Jun 22, 2011 @ 3:39 pm (Quote)
This was mine! It was said to me by my midwife during a checkup at 37 weeks after I had gained 2.5 lbs two weeks in a row. I had only gained 17 lbs total for the entire pregnancy– I had hyperemesis and OH HOW I WISH I could have been eating ice cream at all!
I just kind of smiled and let it go at the time, but during the visit I started getting more upset about it. I brought up to her that maternal weight gain doesn’t have much of a correlation to baby size (http://bangerlm.blogspot.com/2011/03/does-babys-birth-weight-correspond-with.html) but she just laughed at me and told me that she’d see me in the operating room because she was sure this one was going to be big. I looked for a different midwife afterward, but there wasn’t enough time. She did end up delivering me and I have a lot of issues with things she said and did during the birth as well, no surprise there.
I did vaginally deliver a dainty 7lb 0oz beautiful baby girl, and no ice cream.
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Louisa Reply:
June 22nd, 2011 at 4:51 pm (Quote)
sounds like a true angel, not.
Now, don’t tease, what else did she do and say. Did it get any worse?
And did you tell her off afterwards?
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Jane Reply:
June 22nd, 2011 at 4:55 pm (Quote)
I’m sorry you had to deal with this gem of a practitioner.
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Details Reply:
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:21 am (Quote)
What a piece of work. I’m sorry you had to deal with this. What kind of a moron complains when a woman who has been sick and only gained 12 lbs in 35 weeks finally puts on a little.
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corrine Reply:
June 23rd, 2011 at 9:36 am (Quote)
i would of totally said to her after the birth NOW WHERE MY ICE CREAM !!! would that not piss her off LOL
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Heather Reply:
June 23rd, 2011 at 10:56 am (Quote)
Congrats on your little baby in spite of your midwife’s ice cream habit! And wow, how ridiculous–sounds like you were gaining the way you were supposed to!
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Jessica Reply:
June 23rd, 2011 at 2:35 pm (Quote)
I’m confused, the chart/data in the page you linked to indicates, well… as they put it: “On average, the more weight a mother gains, the more her baby will weigh.” It doesn’t indicate a “HUGE” baby or excuse the midwife’s comments, I just don’t understand how you link to that post and say weight gain doesn’t correlate to size.
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My OB said WHAT?!? had this to say,
Jun 22, 2011 @ 4:59 pm (Quote)
Eek, our apologies, we had down this was said by a OB, but the OP clarified it was a midwife. We have corrected the post! We missed it in the submission! Sorry folks!
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lilmrsmchenry had this to say,
Jun 22, 2011 @ 5:09 pm (Quote)
What do your eating habits have to do with my pregnancy?
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Jespren had this to say,
Jun 22, 2011 @ 6:20 pm (Quote)
“Dinner? Oh no Doctor, i’d never eat ice cream for *dinner* so no worries there. Ice cream is a diary after all, everyone knows you eat diary for *breakfast*! Now popcorn, popcorn is a dinner food, that won’t be a problem right?”
P.s. I adore ice cream in the morning 
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Ladies, we’re missing the hidden truth of medical miracles here! She’s not saying she’s pushing out ice cream. They’re figured out how you can give birth to STRAIGHT BODY FAT! :O This could revolutionize America’s obesity problem! HALLELUJAH!
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Debra Reply:
June 23rd, 2011 at 12:17 am (Quote)
I would eat way more ice cream if I could push it out of my vagina.
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Kat Reply:
June 23rd, 2011 at 7:33 am (Quote)
This reminded me of a storyline from Doctor Who.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Adipose
They gave people a pill that caused their fat to coalesce into a little, squishy, adorable sentient blob, and it would then pop off their body and walk away. Seriously, it was the cutest “monster/alien/creature” I’ve ever seen on Doctor Who, but of course there was a vast and sinister plot behind the whole thing…
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Unless the mother had gained 53 pounds in the three weeks between visits and was eating a gallon of ice cream straight from the carton while the doctor was talking to her, I cannot see how anyone would think this is acceptable enough to say it.
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Jane Reply:
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:49 am Jane(Quote)
I wonder how many times the doctor has performed a section and removed an ice cream cone…? And wouldn’t ice cream mold really well? A lot better than a baby’s head?
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Lisa Reply:
June 22nd, 2011 at 12:01 pm Lisa(Quote)
Heehee, this made me think of that one Cosby show episode where all the guys gave birth to inanimate objects. One of them had twins…a sandwich and a 2-liter!
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Mistie Reply:
June 24th, 2011 at 10:56 am Mistie(Quote)
bwaahhahahaaa!! I remember that one!
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Your Name Reply:
June 24th, 2011 at 7:42 am Your Name(Quote)
Probably never, since the OP says it was a midwife…
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Jane Reply:
June 24th, 2011 at 5:11 pm Jane(Quote)
When first posted, it did say “doctor.”
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