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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Urgh! It’s All Over Me! I’m Soaked! My Shoes Are Wet!”
“Urgh! It’s all over me! I’m soaked! My shoes are wet!” – OB complaining about getting wet after breaking the laboring mother’s amniotic sac.
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Oh, for pity’s sake! Did it actually NOT cross this doctor’s mind that he might get wet if broke a woman’s water? Seriously?
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You know, every time I read something on this site, I think of how lucky I was to have a great doctor when I was in labour. My first push, I actually pissed all over the ob catching my baby (no one ever thought to suggest I take a toilet break)and all she said was “oh dear!” as she pulled up a mat, then she laughed and told me not to worry about it, it happens all the time.
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lilmrsmchenry Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 7:30 pm (Quote)
Same thing happened with my last one on the first push. Literally, in his face and I think he might have even had his mouth open. (I’m sure the incident report on it was a nightmare.) He stayed perfectly calm. Told me to not worry about it and that I was pushing beautifully. Baby was out in 4 pushes.
Every time I went to use the bathroom, I couldn’t go since baby’s head was down so far. I am one of the unusual women one delivers best on my back so I guess when I got into position it took some of the pressure off everything, lol.
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ANd the pink link will come to reveal that the doctor was a medical genius who was only 12 years old and this was his or her first delivery…?
Oh well. Because the above sounds like something a twelve year old would say.
If you have to get soaked with a bodily fluid, amniotic fluid is probably the one to choose. At least it smells nice. 
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When I was in nursing school, I saw a woman’s water “explode” once in labor and my preceptor was in the “spray zone” and got DRENCHED head to toe. It looked like she had just stepped out of the shower! When we left the room to get cleaned up, she went to chart something and when she clicked her pen, amniotic fluid came out. It was in her pen. haha. I just thought it was hilarious. This is why we wear SCRUBS!
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Anointed with the very elixir of Life itself? What a blessing! Too bad such a gift went unappreciated. Personally, if I leave a birth with squishy socks, I feel like it meant I had an extra great time!
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 5:46 pm (Quote)
“Anointed with the very elixir of Life itself? What a blessing! Too bad such a gift went unappreciated.”
You’re kidding, right?
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Beth Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 7:17 pm (Quote)
There is nothing gross about amniotic fluid. It’s a fact of life, like anything else – you can act with abhorrence, or you can choose to appreciate the beauty of the process. I, personally, think the human body is pretty amazing and I love my job – it is a honour for me to present at a birth. There is no shame in holding a barf bowl or getting squirted with amniotic fluid. Life is messy. Amniotic fluid is amazing stuff. We should feel privileged when we encounter it.
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 7:35 pm (Quote)
Oh, god, you really ARE serious.
Ignoring the gross aspects of a process is one thing, but reveling in them, as if giving birth really does make one a goddess deserving of worship and acting like all things related are sacred is just…
Oh, forget it.
Sometimes I love this site for exposing the madness of some people in obstetrics. Other times, it’s not the doctors whose madness is exposed.
Being squirted with bodily fluids is a privilege. I can’t believe anyone would say that. How conceited do you have to be? Get over yourself.
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Beth Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 8:26 pm (Quote)
How is my appreciating the beauty of birth make me conceited? How does my admiration for the process of birth make me conceited? I don’t think you understand the meaning of the word. Maybe you should use a dictionary before you use an insult.
There is nothing wrong with finding the sacred here on earth. You don’t have to feel the same way, but insulting folks just because you don’t agree is pretty close-minded…and rude. My views aren’t hurting you. There’s no call for you to act like you are.
If you aren’t adult enough to handle discussions of bodily fluids, perhaps you shouldn’t be hanging out on a birthing website – surely the pleasure you receive from acting like a jerk towards random strangers could be experienced on another website where you don’t have to endure the unseemliness of reality.
For someone telling me to “get over myself”, you seem awfully disparaging of people who don’t fit neatly into your teeny-tiny little worldview. I think your tiara must have slipped down over your eyes because you aren’t in Pretty Pretty Princess Land anymore.
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 9:27 pm (Quote)
Conceited – having or showing an excessively high opinion of oneself.
I wrote conceited, I meant conceited. That’s what you have to be to think that someone else must appreciate getting someone else’s bodily fluids on them, or seeing someones failure to see being slimed as a blessing as a failure to properly admire birth (as if that were a requirement anyway.) There is no call to act like any of your bodily juices are something someone else should want on them. It’s not actually the elixir of life. It’s a bodily fluid that normal people would likely not particularly wished to be covered in. It’s so HILARIOUS that you would have the nerve, the sheer gall to accuse someone else of being close-minded, rude, immature, or a “Pretty Princess” for reminding you that your excretions aren’t magic, aren’t blessing, and aren’t a privilege to be sprayed with. Sane people need no such reality checks.
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Tee Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 8:55 pm (Quote)
Julie, I can appreciate that you don’t understand Beth’s level of enthusiasm. I don’t completly understand it either and I’m a midwife! But honestly, was it really necessary to be so rude to her? Her comment was polite, said nothing wrong and certainly wasn’t offensive to anybody. Why the ugly comment towards her?
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 9:20 pm (Quote)
It is NOT polite to act as if there is something wrong with someone for not seeing getting someone else’s bodily fluids on them as a “blessing.”
I doubt that if I were to pee on her, she would see fit to thank me.
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Tee Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 10:32 pm (Quote)
I completely agree with that statement! I don’t, however, think that Beth said that or even implied that.
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 9:19 am (Quote)
Yes, she did. She said that the OB was blessed by being soaked in amniotic fluid (the “elixir of life,” she called it) She went on to lament that the doctor didn’t appreciate the “gift,” as if the OB really should have.
She’s free to revel in whatever she wants. But to act as if someone else should is just not right.
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Tee Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 3:30 pm (Quote)
I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one. I don’t see how Beth said anything wrong. Your second comment to her, the one after you asked if she was serious, was really rude and antagonistic. Quite frankly, I don’t blame her for acting cranky towards you after that.
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Jade Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:11 am (Quote)
She didn’t say YOU needed to see it as a blessing, she said SHE saw it that way. She was polite and sincere, you were rude and degrading of her as a person due to her opinion.
You may have noticed that the definition of conceited that you gave does not even come close to what Beth is/said.
You wrote “That’s what you have to be to think that someone else must appreciate getting someone else’s bodily fluids on them, or seeing someones failure to see being slimed as a blessing as a failure to properly admire birth (as if that were a requirement anyway.) There is no call to act like any of your bodily juices are something someone else should want on them.”
She didn’t say she thought others would appreciate her bodily fluids on them, she said that she saw it as a blessing to have other peoples amniotic fluid on her.(incidentally I do agree with her elixir of life description even though i had never heard it before, without amniotic fluid the baby certainly doesn’t live so I see that as a fitting description).
I am a doula and aspiring midwife. Although I don’t see it as so much of a blessing, I do cerainly see it as something that happens and in the scheme of things, not gross and exciting because it means things are happening (when it is SROM anyway)
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 9:24 am (Quote)
Thinking your bodily fluids are magic and a “blessing” and a “gift” to others IS conceited. Calling amniotic fluid the “elixir of life” is just as obnoxiously self-serving as calling breast milk “liquid gold.”
Yes, she DID say that people should appreciate getting other people’s bodily fluids on them right in her very first comment when she lamented that the OB did not appreciate the “gift” of getting someone else’s amniotic fluid all over her.
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Jade Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 6:53 pm (Quote)
Breastmilk is like liquid gold. Difference between BM and real gold is that it can save lives. Something that can save lives, calm tears, comfort children and on top of that is free is more like liquid diamonds in my opinion.
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Mindie Reply:
October 3rd, 2011 at 1:35 pm (Quote)
Love this Sounds like Juliewashere88 has some issues of their own. While most people wouldn’t appreciate getting sprayed with any kind of bodily fluid, that is a risk you take when you work in the OB medical field (hell in any medical field for that case) and so the bottom line is, the OB/Nurse whoever it was should of kept their rude and discouraging and embarrassment inducing comments to themselves.
As for Beth, I wish there was more people like her who can appreciate life and all of its little messes.
Pregnancy and Birth are wondrous and beautiful and so they should be celebrated! And yes Amniotic Fluid IS the elixir of Life. Without baby wouldn’t be able to survive 40 weeks. As for Breast Milk… It should be renamed Liquid Gold… (for one it is sometimes the color of gold, for two it is the richest most powerful form of nutrition a baby can receive)…
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Guess who!
This is the same woman as the other posts were about.
I was 6cm and she was trying to measure me, she was digging around so hard I was trying to climb away from her! Then my waters broke, which seemed to make her rather annoyed (the title of this post was the edited version). In my head I was killing myself laughing but I was too much in my bubble to laugh out loud.
Seriously woman, you stick your hand in a labouring woman’s vagina who’s waters haven’t broken and then you’re shocked when you get wet? I’d call that a hazard of the job!
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Mama Wrench Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:51 am (Quote)
Damn! I mean, maybe this is just me but my membranes were pretty tough, it would have taken a hell of a VE to break them!
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Claire Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:56 am (Quote)
Considering I was only 34 weeks and my waters have never broken before – #1 was born in the caul, #2 & 3 were crash sections but left to the last minute to squeeze every last second out of the pregnancy (I’m always an impatient mummy), I was already delivering #2 when they took me in – I find it hard to believe they just broke.
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Kit Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 10:59 am (Quote)
This is another one of those things that differs from woman to woman. My wonderful midwife just had to touch my sac with a fingertip and it popped. She also got drenched from head to toe, she even stopped in the waiting room on the way to change clothes to show my family what I had done to her. They all laughed together. Point being, it doesn’t always take huge effort for water to break.
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Claire Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:11 pm (Quote)
I bet you weren’t 34 weeks though. I’ve always had premature babies which is why my waters have never gone on their own before.
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Kit Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 4:02 pm (Quote)
I didn’t say she wasn’t rough with you. I didn’t say that what she did was in any way acceptable. I know you have gotten some really nasty comments on this post, but I’m not one of them.
I just shared my experience and how it was different from yours.
I am very sorry for your horrible experience with this OB. She was unprofessional and mean and that is inexcusable.
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Jenny Islander had this to say,
Sep 29, 2011 @ 2:25 pm (Quote)
I’m trying to imagine a mechanic: “Ewww! Oil came out of therrre! My good shirt is all dirtyyy.” Or a baker: “Oh my GOSH I am covered in FLOUR I was dressed to go out to LUNCH oh my GOSH.”
Um, doy.
You gotta wonder with somebody like this–are they that new? Or are they so used to cutting women open that they aren’t prepared for what happens when babies come out of vaginas?
Also–If you ever find yourself in a similar situation with an idiot who goes digging around so hard that he/she breaks your water at 6 cm, feel free to deliver a sharp slap to the head.
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juliewashere88 had this to say,
Sep 29, 2011 @ 5:44 pm (Quote)
What, is the OB supposed to act like being splashed is some kind of blessing?
Breaking someone’s amniotic sac unintentionally and/or without consent is a problem. The quote itself, not so much. That would probably be my response too.
Don’t doctors usually wear smocks and a guard over their faces or something?
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Jane Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 6:11 pm (Quote)
I’d expect a doctor who got splashed to go, “Ack!” or something like that. But to go on and on and ON and ON about it… That’s juvenile. Okay, so she got wet. It shouldn’t be a surprise to this doctor to learn that amniotic fluid is a liquid. Get over it.
Professionals should act professionally. When you’re at the grocery store and ask where the pickles are and the employee points the shelf directly behind you, the employee is supposed to be professional enough not to say, “Oh my GOODNESS are you BLIND it was right there! You wasted five seconds of my life!” (Er, not that I just did this today in the grocery store.) The doctor may not want to bathe in amniotic fluid, but she still should have kept her comments to one, or maybe two.
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 29th, 2011 at 6:32 pm (Quote)
Oh, please. She didn’t go “ON and ON,” at least not by the account of the OP. Yes, the OB should have expected that to happen. As they evidently didn’t, it makes perfect sense to react the way they did. Bodily fluids ARE gross, and amniotic fluid is no exception.
Your grocery store analogy only makes sense if I’m vomiting pickle juice on the employee.
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Claire Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:28 am (Quote)
Oh please. She did go “ON” and “ON” and she was angry.
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 9:26 am (Quote)
You mean OB/GYNs are human beings? :O
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Heather P Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 11:31 am (Quote)
Not this one. Have you read her other quotes?
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 12:32 pm (Quote)
Doesn’t matter. Those other quotes have no bearing on this one.
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Kat Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 12:42 pm (Quote)
Well, apparently to the OP they do. It’s all interconnected. You don’t have to agree, but your level of hostility towards the OP is quite unbecoming.
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Details Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:38 pm (Quote)
Julie, You are being a bitch again. This one isn’t about abortion. So why don’t you let it go. Why you pick the fights you do I will never know. We simply have a case of a little too prissy female OB who isn’t very steller since she “accidentaly” broke the water of a woman in premature labor throwing an unprofessionally fit (4 exclamination points and the OP said she cleaned up the language.) Why in the world do you feel the need to defend that? Yes, she is human, and she just showed her nasty side. She needs to reminded of the expectations of her position!
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Jade Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 7:07 pm (Quote)
The others have a bearing on this one, they all contributed to a horrible experience for Claire.
Often in life things seem to feel worse if they come one after the other. I get crankier with my husband if he has already done 4 things to piss me off than if it is the 1st one. I get angrier with the kids if I find 4 items broken in succession than if I just find one, and often by the time you get a fews confrontations in, you tend to over react to the 3rd/4th and successive incidents.
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Claire Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:16 pm (Quote)
Of course they’re human but if you get angry because you deliberately broke a labouring woman’s water and it got on you then you’re in the wrong job.
You said she didn’t go on and on, I was just correcting you as, you know, I was there and you were on the wrong side of the pond.
“OBs are human too” could be written on every post on this website, when it gets posted you can also post it on the one where she assaulted me too.
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Jane Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 3:31 am (Quote)
Four exclamations of disgust about a bodily fluid that she ejected onto herself. That’s on and on.
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 9:11 am (Quote)
It takes all of 5 seconds to say. That is NOT “on and on.” I swear, the petty nonsense some people manage to take offense to.
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Jane Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 9:13 am (Quote)
I have to admit, I’m kind of surprised by your response to my comment too.
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 9:31 am (Quote)
I’m surprised at just about every comment in this thread. Hell, I’m surprised that this quote is even on this site.
What, did MOBSW visitors run out of quotes legitimately worth being upset about to submit?
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Lisa Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 9:47 am (Quote)
Being that it was the OP who submitted it (and, based on the context, I’m not surprised she was upset), it’s up to HER and her alone as to whether or not it’s “legitimately worth being upset about.” Not everyone gets upset about the same things…
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 9:51 am (Quote)
So, the OB isn’t allowed to be upset (or, in this case, more like simply displeased) at being covered in someone else’s bodily fluids, a bio-hazard, by the way.
But it’s perfectly legitimate for the OP to be upset about the OB’s displeasure at said situation?
What?! No, sorry, no sympathy for the OP this time. Her complaint is just unreasonable.
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Lisa Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 9:57 am (Quote)
Where did I say that the OB wasn’t allowed to be upset? I didn’t. Based on the context, the OB shouldn’t have been surprised at the gush of waters. Barring that, the OB is in a service profession, which means you need to be professional. If something unexpected happens, you need to keep your professionalism. One part of which is not going on and on about something that has already happened and can’t be changed. If you want to complain about it, you wait until after you are out of hearing of your customer (patient) and complain to your coworkers. If I would have complained like this OB in front of a customer at my job, I would be fired.
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 10:31 am (Quote)
It’s not unprofessional to express disgust at being exposed to a bio-hazard, especially if it was a surprised. Yes, the OB should have expected that and gotten out of the blast-zone, but as she evidently didn’t and, OB or not, is still a human-being, is not likely to be particularly happy about it.
“Where did I say that the OB wasn’t allowed to be upset? I didn’t.”
YOU didn’t. The fact that this quote is on this site at all does. That’s my point. The quote is reasonable for the circumstance. What isn’t reasonable is getting all upset over the quote.
Lisa Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 10:42 am (Quote)
It still is unprofessional. I am a cashier at a grocery store, and I have been puked on. Not something you’d expect as a cashier. I was completely grossed out, but as a professional in customer service, I had to keep my mouth shut. I was told later by the manager that it was a good thing I didn’t say anything about it being gross or disgusting because if anyone had complained about it, I could have gotten fired for saying something that insulted a customer. And this is in a profession where contact with bodily fluids is far out of the norm! Why is an OB, also in customer service in a way, not held to the same standards? I guess that is my main point…if you’re working in OB, it’s a job hazard to get splashed with stuff…you take the proper precautions and keep your mouth shut in front of your customers. Out of earshot, go ahead and complain as you do have the right to be upset about it, but not in front of your customers.
And I apologize, I thought you were referring to me about the OB not being allowed to be upset. I misunderstood.
Jade Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:17 am (Quote)
The last birth I attended, the midwife got amniotic fluid all over her face including in her mouth (mama was on all fours, mid was behind her, waters broke very dramatically). She made absolutely no comment other than “there we go” in reference to the waters breaking. She then looked at the otehr mid and whispered, “can you please wipe my face” The whole time she didn’t move from behind mama, didn[‘t move her handsfromt eh catching position. It wasn’t until after the birth that mama knew what had happened because they had to discuss whether mum had any health issues that the mid should know about given that she just got a big mouthful of bodily fluids. When all was said and done, mama had nothing (confirmed by very recent blood work), no report was even written up because that would have meant a months long regime of blood tests for the midwife.
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Claire Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:33 am (Quote)
That was my point. It’s a hazard of the job so to act surprised and angry because someone’s waters broke whilst your hand was in her vagina and you get soaked is a bit unprofessional really.
If you read my other submissions this week (same lovely lady registrar – apart from the 2+2 comment) you can see she was in a bad mood this day and determined to take it out on me – or maybe I was her bad mood daring to ask her to deliver a 34 weeker VBA2C with a classical inverse T!
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Jade Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:39 am (Quote)
Yeah, I realise that was your point lol. I was illustrating a far more professional way of dealing with this situation.
Congrats of succeeding with birthing that baby despite this b*tch P:D
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Claire Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 1:52 am (Quote)
Thank you. I’m a rather defiant person and wasn’t going to allow her to stop me. When you’ve fought to VBAC on that history it’s going to take a lot to get to you. I found out yesterday they were about to numb me but they never actually mentioned that to me, they’d have had a fight on their hands if they’d tried!
My waters broke at 9:15, at 9:30 I was fully dilated but no head and they said her heart rate dropped (I saw the trace yesterday, you couldn’t read it it was so broken) so they got me in lithotomy (despite everyone screaming “no she has SPD!”) and had the forceps out. I delivered at 9:36! Apparently I wasn’t pushing properly…
I knew you knew, just backing you up backing me up 
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juliewashere88 Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 9:13 am (Quote)
In her mouth? And she didn’t write up a report and get blood tests? Wow, medical procedure fail.
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Jade Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 6:59 pm (Quote)
There was a v ery brief report that detailed the fact that we ran bloods on mama to confirm that nothing untoward was going to happen. And anyway, she spat it out pretty quick 
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Mindie Reply:
October 3rd, 2011 at 1:47 pm (Quote)
Something similar happened to my OB. My waters had been AROM, and after the first initial gush I didn’t leak any more fluid (baby’s head was acting like a cork). When I delivered him there was about half the fluid behind him, Just as he came out so did the rest of the amnotic fluid which completely soaked her from the chest down and probably a bit on her face… She never said a thing infront of us. ( The one other time I met her was at an appointment just after she reamed out her secretary for taking me on as a patient the week before her vacation…).
She continued with her job and never once left until she was done putting in stitches and explained to me what had happened (turned out my son had to be assisted a bit with delivery).
So while it isn’t the most wonderful thing in the world to get soaked, it isn’t the end of the world and it does call for some tact to not embarrass the mom or family.
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Holly Reply:
October 8th, 2011 at 2:03 pm (Quote)
SAME thing happened to my NURSE! The OB had come in after I had started pushing and was just standing over by the door. I remember something along the lines of “You seem to have this” or something and he stayed hands off.. fine with me. He wasn’t my OB and I didn’t like him anyway!! Just as baby boy came FLYING out with my third/fourth push (would have been less but his shoulders got stuck a little bit) out came all that fluid that they had put IN ME! They had decided after the PROM that he was in distress (oh yea, and perhaps the pit that they forced me on even though I was already IN labor)… so they put a catheter beside his head and put saline IN beside him!! Well, she got every drop of it back! THANKFULLY she was wearing goggles and scrubs lol. She was training another nurse and she said “See, that’s why we wear these!”. Nothing more, nothing to me about nasty or anything else. It’s part of the job! When you are messing with babies and such you should expect there to be a certain amount of amniotic fluid to be there! Reacting negatively with lots of cursing would be dumb! It happens, it should be expected!! It’s part of LIFE on an OB floor! I mean.. really!! That’s the ONE good thing that nurse did the entire labor/delivery!
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Lindsey had this to say,
Sep 30, 2011 @ 1:12 pm (Quote)
Julie, it is obvious that you would not take offence to (the way you have interpreted) Claires experience. That is your right. Regardless of how you feel YOU would have acted etc in the situation it saddens me that you are choosing to minimize her feelings from that experience. If she was offended or hurt or upset by the comments made to/about her then that is ok, they are her feelings and she is allowed to feel that way. Sweeping womens feelings under the carpet or rolling your eyes at them only knocks them down further, I hope you come to a place of understanding instead of judgement.
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I was 34 weeks pregnant, water doesn’t break easily at that stage and she deliberately broke it. My Doula said she’s never seen such a rough VE. Baby couldn’t even be felt at that stage so it was no surprise that water gushed out of there.
The quote I submitted was the edited down version. She was angry, not surprised or displeased. She was shouting, cursing and listing off everything that was wet.
She might only be a registrar but she should know enough to know that there’s a lot of water in that hole you’re sticking your fingers into. She went into the delivery room in her own clothes, which was asking for it really!
Acting professionally would have been an “ack, I better go and change” then cursing at the staff base to her colleagues, not shouting at the patient for getting her wet.
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And this is why docs belong on the SIDE of the bed, not at the foot. You know, where they stand or sit when they do VEs. That way the bed gets wet, not the doc. That’s where my midwife sits, to catch, too. No need for a ringside seat.
Whenever I see a doc or midwife stick their face really close to a woman’s crotch (yes, often), I can barely stop myself from yelling, “Seriously? There’s stuff coming out from there! You want a faceful??!”
I have no problem with being drenched, it’s happened before. My sister (an RN) calls the first time you get hit by body fluids being ‘christened’ in your new job. I don’t see a reason to ask for it, though.
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juliewasher had this to say,
Oct 2, 2011 @ 2:26 pm (Quote)
I really think you’re so caught up in being a bitch that you couldn’t fully grasp the comment and the purpose of this site. Take a few days, get that stick out of your ass, re-read it, and if you still don’t get it, try again.
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I’m in nursing school and one of the things our professors drill into us that is that it is never ok to display disgust in front of the patient. If something is gross or disgusting, you keep it to yourself including body language and verbally. Part of being a nurse is acting professionally. Exposure to body fluids is going to happen if you’re a nurse or a doctor. You don’t have to be happy about it, but acting the way the OPs registar did is totally unprofessional. A nurse got fired for swearing at a patient and the last place I worked. Being professional is just part of the job.
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K Reply:
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:02 pm (Quote)
Amen. I’ve gotten splashed before (who catches babies and doesn’t get splashed with body fluids?!) and you do what you’ve schooled yourself to do: Put your game face on and don’t let it bother the mom and family. If I saw a doc, midwife, or nurse make the kind of stink OP says her doc made, I’d hurt myself rolling my eyes. Suck it up, princess.
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Jade Reply:
October 3rd, 2011 at 1:39 am (Quote)
I am “only” a doula nd I have been splashed lol. You just ignore it. Likewise I have had maternal blood on my arms etc despite wearing gloves. Stuff happens, you just get on with it. There are numerous times I have been got with worse bodily fluids, I am a mother (and hence have been pooed on, weed on, spewed on, bled on) I am also an aged care nurse (and have been pooed, weed and spewed on at work) I have also worked in childcare. I would rather be splashed with amniotic fluid anyday lol.
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Claire Reply:
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:40 am (Quote)
I’ve been in St John since I was a Cadet and that was one of the most important things we were taught too. You could be a 10 year old treating a member of the public and if you show disgust in front of them you’d be pulled up so if we can do it at 10yo, surely a doctor should be able to control herself too!
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well you did it you incompetant loon!!
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