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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Wow! Your Cootch Is So Big…”
“Wow! Your cootch is so big, I can fit my whole hand up there!” – OB to mother at her first prenatal, during a vaginal exam.
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Mama Wrench had this to say,
Jan 5, 2013 @ 5:37 am (Quote)
Hmm. I’ve been told I have a very narrow vaginal canal, yet I’ve passed a child — which is significantly bigger than a hand — through there. Does this OB only ever do c-sections and never learned vaginae are designed to stretch?
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I likely would have broken out with, “That’s because my husband is a man and very well endowed. He doesn’t feel like he has to demean people to find satisfaction like you do. You must be very small.”
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One more reason to hate vaginal exams. And cooch? Is the doctor 14? Am I being punk’d?
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Steph in Lex Reply:
January 5th, 2013 at 11:15 am (Quote)
LOL! You totally read my mind! I was thinking almost this exact same thing…although I was wondering whether the doctor was 12, not 14. 
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First: Remarks of this nature at totally unnecessary from a medical standpoint. The size of a vagina barely matters at all, medically speaking.
Second: A medical professional should never utilize slang terms for ANYTHING, especially if that slang could even remotely be construed as offensive.
Third: Placing “your whole hand” inside someone for know reason, as this quote implies (You are SO BIG I wanted to see how much of my arm could fit!) could be seen as sexual assault.
Fourth: I hope the patient ended the exam RIGHT THEN, fired the doctor, collected her records and left. Swearing optional.
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Mndjoy had this to say,
Jan 5, 2013 @ 3:46 pm (Quote)
Unfortunately mine, (Hi, all, I’m new!) or at least my best friend’s. I was her labor coach for her first two pregnancies. This was her first, we were 19, and she was terrified. Being young and not well-off, she was being seen by the local hospital maternity clinic.
There were many problems with this place, the least of which was this relatively inoffensive comment. I don’t think she ever saw the same doctor twice. And the nursing staff was constantly condescending to us, one even going so far as to tell me that Halloween can’t possibly be my favorite holiday, as it isn’t a “holy day,” even after I told her I was Pagan.
And being young, we didn’t realize how many options were available, so we trudged back there faithfully for every appointment. She delivered in the same hospital L&D department that my aunt had worked in for years. As a result, they bent the rules for us and allowed 3 observers instead of two (me and both our mothers).
At one point, they tried to give her an I.V. stating “if you don’t get an I.V. now, you can’t have an epidural later.” She was terrified of needles and had low blood pressure issues to the point an epidural could have been catastrophic. I told the nurse to go away, read her chart, and come back without the I.V., which she did.
Extremely long story shorter, she labored for 5 hours, pushed for twenty minutes, and delivered my healthy, beautiful, 7 pound godson with almost no intervention (though I now suspect that “stretching” that made her mother and I have to restrain her from hitting the doctor to be an episiotomy). I still can’t believe he’ll be ten in March.
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Not sure what happened to the pink link I tried to post yesterday, but meh. Still mine. 
Long story short, this was my best friend, her first baby, terrified of doctors and I was to be her coach, so I went with her to appointments the dad couldn’t. Being 19 and on Medicaid,, neither of us realized that she could have, in fact let that nightmare clinic. More info in the pink if it ever shows up.
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I don’t believe for a moment that this one is true
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Details Reply:
January 7th, 2013 at 4:27 am (Quote)
Do you know what they call the person that graduates last in his/her class in medical school? They call him/her DOCTOR! And in years past they funneled them into OB. And crappy OB’s end up working for the state at the free clinic because they couldn’t possibly manage a private practise where treating their patients with this level of disrespect would result in closing their doors. Consider yourself lucky to have never had to set foot in one of these places.
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Mndjoy Reply:
January 7th, 2013 at 6:10 am (Quote)
You know, I understand that thought, and sincerely wish I WERE making it up. For the record, I was actually way more off put by it than my friend was. She found it a little awkward, but also funny. I was just floored by the unprofessionalism. This doctor was just so…*shudder*. If she had ever seen the same doc twice, it might have been more of an issue.
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