Oh my! Well as long as everybody lived it is just a bad or shocking joke, but OH MY! That one would make my head whip around and my jaw drop to the floor.

sounds like an aweful joke i’d make, but i wouldn’t do it within earshot of anyone but coworkers! seriously…. ugh…

I really hope that the birth wasn’t a bad experience, as this comment might be too accurate. But on a side note, after my recent homebirth, my bed totally looked like a murder scene. My sister/doula and I set up the bed ourselves because I didn’t want to call the midwife until transition. We had never done it before and didn’t guess the right amount of chux pads. The bed ended getting very messy, and I said that it looked like a murder scene. Next time, I’m setting the room up like a Dexter kill scene! Another side note, but does anyone else laugh when they see a doctor dressed up in full Dexter regalia? I love the anti-spatter mask.

Is anyone else wondering what they had asked the nurse to do, to which she replied “give me a moment”? Because a recent comment did have the nurse more concerned with cleaning up the floor than taking care of a woman who was bleeding out, and that was the first place my mind went: the nurse might be freudian-slipping on negligent homicide. :-b

If this comment was made by my midwife or doula, someone that I knew and trusted (and who knew how much I love a good murder mystery!), this would be hilarious. If it were made by an L&D nurse I’d never seen in my life griping about the cleanup work he/she was being put through because of me, not so much.

I still have vivid memories of my little brother’s midwife-attended hospital birth. My mom, headed into transition, moaned “I’m making a mess all over everything . . .”, to which my cool-as-a-cucumber dad replied, “That’s why we’re having the baby here and not at home.” Midwife Lori just busted up laughing. ‘Twas a good moment. No murder required.

Actually I probably would have laughed at this. Provided, of course, that I didn’t have any problems with this nurse throughout the labour.

My first thought before I read the full story was that someone’s poor baby died and the nurse was saying this…I’m so glad to see it wasn’t that bad, but also saddened that I could expect to see something so bad on this site.

I’m curious to read what happened too. It reminds me of my last 3 births, all in different houses, where I’ve always thought, I hope there’s never a crime scene investigation here. I’m finding “evidence” on the bathroom walls that were overlooked at the time of birth when my midwives were cleaning up.
I’m hoping the only reason the OP had to wait was because the nurse had a handful of towels or something and needed to reglove or something before assisting the new mama. If she’s breaking out the mop and bucket she’s clearly not aware of her job title!

I think I referred to my delivery room as a murder scene when I returned from my shower afterward–I was shocked to see how splattered everything was, though in retrospect, my mind noted the splooshiness of the delivery and I probably shouldn’t have been surprised. I was standing next to the bed (on one of those cushy rubber/foam mats with big holes in it), so it wasn’t exactly a contained mess. Later, the doctor and nurses all said they made notes to put towels under the next woman who delivered standing next to the bed.

Immediately after a birth = not a good time to crack jokes

Yes, it looked like a bathtub murder scene right after my homebirth…but everyone in the room was smart enough to NOT SAY ANYTHING until much much later.

I’ve worked in a couple of settings around doctors and nurses. And lemme tell you, the humor gets pretty macabre. After being around so many illnesses and injuries and bodily fluids all day, dry humor sort of becomes a sort of coping mechanism.

Let’s just say that it wasn’t easy for me to eat lunch in the break room, (which, to be on the safe side, is exactly where those jokes should stay! )

As a med student, this is one of those jokes that we do make. But behind the nurse’s station, or in the breakroom, or the in on-call room. Or, if you have developed a rapport with the patient, and you know that this is an okay joke with her, it’s okay. But, not before.

After my most recent birth I went into the bathroom to clean myself up and get out of the yucky hospital gown into something more comfortable. I found that there was a lot of blood, and I was a little shaky from the marathon I’d just run, and too silly to ask for help, and I made a mess of things in there, too. So I peeked out and asked for new pads and underwear and things, and when DH pulled on the doorknob, I said, “Don’t look, it’s like a horror movie in here.”

My mom said something very similar right after my first homebirth. I hemorrhaged badly, and there was blood EVERYWHERE. It quite literally gushed out onto the midwife and all over the floor and rug. We had covered the matress, but not enough obviously. My mom and the assiating midwife carried out two 50-gallon trash bags stuffed with blood-soaked sheets, towels and blankets. And that was just the laundry LOL. She joked about how the neighbors must have thought someone was murdered in there. And that yes, it looked like the scene of a slaughter. It was funny because it was my mom and my midwives.

Of course, this is one of those jokes that is only going to be funny given the circumstances and the audience are right. Wrong audience, and it’s totally inappropriate. Wrong circumstances, and it’s totally offensive. So without knowing who this was said to, etc, I’m not sure how to take it LOL.

Take the stick out… that’s funny! No one actually died this = funny.