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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“It’s Not Like We’re Dealing With A Frozen Chicken Neck…”
Mother: “How likely will the induction be to result in a vaginal delivery?
OB: ”Good. It’s not like we’re dealing with a frozen chicken neck here.”
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Woman: How likely is the outcome of my nose job procedure to be a slimmer, pointier nose?
Doc: Good…I put carrots in my dishrack.
See…I can play the Makes No Sense Whatsoever game too!
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Elizabeth Reply:
January 9th, 2012 at 12:17 pm (Quote)
I haven’t laughed so hard since I read the 25 best autocorrects of the year!
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The Deranged Housewife Reply:
January 13th, 2012 at 5:42 am (Quote)
That made me laugh SO hard! LOL 
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Julie--It is my name, too. had this to say,
Jan 9, 2012 @ 10:35 am (Quote)
I, too, am incredibly confused. Huh? I am trying to figure out how pitocin and frosen chicken in my freezer have anything to do with each other.
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Julie--It is my name, too. Reply:
January 9th, 2012 at 11:43 am (Quote)
I meant “frozen” not “frosen”. I can spell. Really.
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I’m pretty sure he’s trying to say, in a very weird and unprofessional way, that a cervix will likely respond well as it’s not hard (ie frozen chicken neck), especially since the cervix is sometimes referred to as the neck of the womb…still weird choice of words. And he should have gone into more detail about what “good” meant, ie percentages, her current effacement/dilation and if it was TRULY necessary…
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Details Reply:
January 9th, 2012 at 12:12 pm (Quote)
I’m pretty sure this is a female doctor. I can’t imagine a man going through what Jane describes below. But a female doctor wrestling with a frozen bird just might have that leap from tongs to forceps and just might expect another woman to have a clue what the heck she is talking about.
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WellBegun Reply:
January 9th, 2012 at 7:16 pm (Quote)
This was my guess too… but, wow, fascinating analogy! How… um… folksy? :-\
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Susan Peterson Reply:
January 10th, 2012 at 7:57 pm (Quote)
Yes, I think he/she was thinking “cervix” , which after all, means neck, so much so that “cervical,” can mean related to the cervix or related to the neck. If the cervix is long, thin, tight, hard, like a frozen chicken neck, an induction will likely fail. So he/she is saying the patient’s cervix is favorable for induction. But oh my goodness, if she didn’t follow his/her analogies, how strange this must have sounded!
This would not have offended me at all but I would still refuse the induction unless there were a very very good reason.
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When you’re cooking a chicken, if the whole chicken isn’t defrosted then most often the neck and giblet bag is wedged into the body cavity at a strange angle and still adheres to the side of the body cavity because it’s iced in.
That much I get. And yes, if the neck is still frozen in, it’s a bear to get it out. I’ve found myself with kitchen tongs around the neck and hot water running into the body, wedging it side to side and yanking it out — and at those times, I *have* in my mind compared it to a forceps delivery.
But I’ve also never needed to cut a hole in the side of the chicken to get the neck out. And it needs to be noted: I’m not a medical professional and I am not counseling someone about my medical opinion when I have these fleeting thoughts.
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road2vba2c had this to say,
Jan 9, 2012 @ 1:01 pm (Quote)
Please don’t compare me/my child to poultry…
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Okay this is the first time I actually laughed at a post on here. Espeically when I imagined if he/did gestures with this analogy. But apparently the mom didn’t like the comment that much and I probly would have looked at the doc with an expression of “are you drunk”. I love some anaology docs give. Do you think the have a whole course in med school on stupid things to say to patients?? Hmm nice to know you compare me to a chicken, do you compare my boobs to cow utters(which by the way I had a doc tell me I needed to go milk myself cause my breasts looked rather full). I’m just wondering what the back story is behind this, but I really enjoyed reading y’all comments, cause now I don’t feel so stupid that I had no idea what this meant!!!!!!!
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BethanyH Reply:
January 10th, 2012 at 3:15 am (Quote)
…I probly would have looked at the doc with an expression of “are you drunk”…
^^This!
I would have no words to respond if a Dr said this me!
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Jane Reply:
January 10th, 2012 at 4:30 am (Quote)
Oh, gestures would make this one a LOT funnier. You really have to get your shoulders into it and make the faces. I could see myself laughing out loud if a doctor did that.
Of course, one of the parts of this gesture is the frequent looking at the clock, when you’re thinking “This thing has GOT to get out soon so dinner can be ready by the time they get here!” and that’s not the image you want for childbirth. 
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Yep, she was talking about my cervix. In the intervening months, I have come to wish that I said many things in response, among them the fact that referring to my body parts as poultry does, in fact, make her sound like a butcher. I did wind up with a c-section, entirely due to mismanaged labor.
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