@leighbrek how awful! I had a dream this week that I chewed out someone who dared give me unsolicited advice. Unfortunately I'm only likely to do that in a dream and not in real life.
@featherchicki Ugh! I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it, but what a rude thing to say!
@ers7924 lol! Hey, get that frustration out any way you can.
@CoastieGirl79 It took a lot of effort. I'm a supervisor, so I have to check my tone a lot and "set the example". I was just super itching to shut him down so hard.
When people give me unsolicited advice, I take it as an invitation to go all nerdy-encyclopedia on them regarding whatever their advice was about; thus telling them all sorts of things that they probably didn't care to hear about either.
Example from last pregnancy-
Random person behind me in line waiting for take-out at the Chinese food place- “You should make sure your doctor doesn’t let you go past 39 weeks. My daughter’s doctor does that and it’s so much easier on everyone.”
Me- “You know they’ve recently discovered that the baby’s pituitary gland triggers final lung surfactant about 24 hours before natural labor begins, so I wouldn’t want to mess with that unless there was a serious medical problem that required an early induction. Also, I don’t feel good about the safety of the medications generally used for induction. Did you know that Cytotec, which is a pill they put up the vagina near the cervix several hours before inducing with IV pitocin, was never FDA approved for use in induction, or even it pregnant women at all? It’s been shown to greatly increase the risk of uterine rupture, even causing rupture in women with no history of C-section, which was previously unheard of. And then the pitocin doesn't stimulate contractions in the same way as the natural oxytocin that the body produces does. See, there are 3 layers of the uterus affected by the pitocin, you have the inner layer of muscle which runs horizontally, the outer layer of muscle, which runs vertically, and between those 2 layers, you have a lot of vascularization. With natural contractions, the body first releases a dose of relaxin to help the inner layer of muscles relax before the oxytocin is released causing the outer layer of muscles to contract. With pitocin, the muscles are only stimulated to contract, which results in more painful contractions, and also causes some compression of the blood vessels between the 2 layers of muscle, which is more likely to cause distress for the fetus."
The best part is when they look shocked that you just used the word, "vagina" in public. They generally don't attempt to offer anymore ridiculous advise, though. And I get to occasionally unleash my inner-nerd. Or maybe my outer-nerd, too. I don't hide it very well.
Re: WTF Wednesday
Ugh! I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it, but what a rude thing to say!
@ers7924
lol! Hey, get that frustration out any way you can.
@CoastieGirl79
It took a lot of effort. I'm a supervisor, so I have to check my tone a lot and "set the example". I was just super itching to shut him down so hard.
Example from last pregnancy-
Random person behind me in line waiting for take-out at the Chinese food place- “You should make sure your doctor doesn’t let you go past 39 weeks. My daughter’s doctor does that and it’s so much easier on everyone.”
Me- “You know they’ve recently discovered that the baby’s pituitary gland triggers final lung surfactant about 24 hours before natural labor begins, so I wouldn’t want to mess with that unless there was a serious medical problem that required an early induction. Also, I don’t feel good about the safety of the medications generally used for induction. Did you know that Cytotec, which is a pill they put up the vagina near the cervix several hours before inducing with IV pitocin, was never FDA approved for use in induction, or even it pregnant women at all? It’s been shown to greatly increase the risk of uterine rupture, even causing rupture in women with no history of C-section, which was previously unheard of. And then the pitocin doesn't stimulate contractions in the same way as the natural oxytocin that the body produces does. See, there are 3 layers of the uterus affected by the pitocin, you have the inner layer of muscle which runs horizontally, the outer layer of muscle, which runs vertically, and between those 2 layers, you have a lot of vascularization. With natural contractions, the body first releases a dose of relaxin to help the inner layer of muscles relax before the oxytocin is released causing the outer layer of muscles to contract. With pitocin, the muscles are only stimulated to contract, which results in more painful contractions, and also causes some compression of the blood vessels between the 2 layers of muscle, which is more likely to cause distress for the fetus."
The best part is when they look shocked that you just used the word, "vagina" in public. They generally don't attempt to offer anymore ridiculous advise, though. And I get to occasionally unleash my inner-nerd. Or maybe my outer-nerd, too. I don't hide it very well.