I guess stupid people TTC, too

SammyJJo · January 2012

I was chatting about TTC with a colleague today, she's trying for number 2. She told me that she's felt nauseous recently so she needs to make an appointment with her doctor to take a pregnancy test. I asked why she didn't just take an HPT. She told me, "My body doesn't produce enough of the 'stuff' that shows up on HPTs. With my first, I didn't even find out I was pregnant until I was 4 weeks along!!!!"

The stupidity almost hurts. To think, this woman has successfully reproduced.

happilyeverafterxo · January 2012

Wow. Just...wow.

Mac221 · January 2012

Haha! Some people are clueless!

bunnymay · January 2012

BlueEyes313 · January 2012

bunnymay:

:::creeps in:::

BUNNY! You pole dancing hooker!

CiderWench · January 2012

Oh, Lord! How did you manage to keep your mouth shut?

sarah_e87 · January 2012

This has me chuckling and shaking my head...I've had all too many patients call for pregnancy tests because they thought the ones from the office were better than HPTs.

I recently had a friend from nursing school share with me that when she was working as an EMT, she responded to a rediculous call. Upon responding, the woman promptly told them she needed to be taken to the hospital for a pregnancy test. When questioned why she didn't just call her doctor for one, she proceeded to tell them she her doctor couldn't get her in until Monday and she needed to know NOW!

bunnymay · January 2012

BlueEyes313:
bunnymay:
:::creeps in:::
BUNNY! You pole dancing hooker!

SLORE!

j/k Stick out tongue

notquiteblushing · January 2012

I'm not even surprised. Crazy chicks come on here everyday saying they are going in for a blood test because their period is "late."

karma&co · January 2012

Holy fvvck.

This board is getting quite the ego.

Not everyone who hasn't read TCOYF is an uneducated hillbilly you know.

melgeorge7189 · January 2012

I agree with Karma, in that I am both an educated and intelligent individual who knew absolutely nothing about TTC or what all it involves (other than the obvious) until I had a m/c. While I know it can be frustrating, try to take it easy on everyone...they aren't all fortunate enough to benefit from the knowledgable ladies on this board:)

RumbleLina · January 2012

melgeorge7189:
I agree with Karma, in that I am both an educated and intelligent individual who knew absolutely nothing about TTC or what all it involves (other than the obvious) until I had a m/c. While I know it can be frustrating, try to take it easy on everyone...they aren't all fortunate enough to benefit from the knowledgable ladies on this board:)

You shouldn't need a board to have at least an idea how your body works. To me, knowing how you get pregnant is considered an "obvious".

curlylocks3 · January 2012

Honestly, I don't think the average person knows that pregnancy is dated from their LMP. Sure, it would have been nice if her doctor explained that to her at some point during her pregnancy but I don't think it makes her stupid.

pittielover2 · January 2012

curlylocks3:
Honestly, I don't think the average person knows that pregnancy is dated from their LMP. Sure, it would have been nice if her doctor explained that to her at some point during her pregnancy but I don't think it makes her stupid.

I agree. The amount I knew before I started TTC and what I know now are drastically different.

SpartanGirl24 · January 2012

pittielover2:
curlylocks3:
Honestly, I don't think the average person knows that pregnancy is dated from their LMP. Sure, it would have been nice if her doctor explained that to her at some point during her pregnancy but I don't think it makes her stupid.

I agree. The amount I knew before I started TTC and what I know now are drastically different.

All of this. Considering that the last sex Ed class I took was 14 years ago as a freshman in high school, I needed a refresher course. This board provided it for me. I'm sure a lot of people don't have the time to find a source like this, so they just depend on their Dr for everything. The only advice my OBGYN gave me was to take a multi-vitamin and have sex EOD. Not the most in depth advice from a professional. She did, however, tell me to call her after I got a BFP on an HPT. Just because people are uninformed doesn't make them stupid.

Toriables · January 2012

I recently told a college student who was a patient in the ER that we were going to run a pregnancy test. She started to cry and said "But I don't want a needle in my stomach!". Thank God it was negative!

curlylocks3 · January 2012

TheAnne:
SpartanGirl24:
All of this. Considering that the last sex Ed class I took was 14 years ago as a freshman in high school, I needed a refresher course. This board provided it for me. I'm sure a lot of people don't have the time to find a source like this, so they just depend on their Dr for everything. The only advice my OBGYN gave me was to take a multi-vitamin and have sex EOD. Not the most in depth advice from a professional. She did, however, tell me to call her after I got a BFP on an HPT. Just because people are uninformed doesn't make them stupid.
I totally agree. Not only was sex ed decades ago for some of us, but I came away from sex ed thinking that any time I had sex w/o protection I was going to get pregnant... and possibly aids.
I remember joining this board a year ago and it BLEW MY MIND that there was such a small window to get pregnant each cycle and that when you found out you were pregnant you were usually 4 weeks. I figured the first day of your missed period was 1 day pregnant.
I have a college degree in economics and read everything I can get my hands on. This kind of info, sadly, isn't common knowledge in today's society and not even "advanced" common knowledge. It's such specialized information that people only get access to when they really dig for it.
OP, did you at least clue her in a bit?

Especially the bolded. Plus I had abstinence only Sex Ed- so it was all about how sex was a sin and God frowned on that and we'd go to hell for it. Oh and that no matter what, we'd get at least one STD. Seriously, the class was Bible versus on respecting your body and pictures of diseased genitals.
I only knew about condoms from movies, which we all know aren't that accurate.

OneHotMama89 · January 2012

RumbleLina:
melgeorge7189:
I agree with Karma, in that I am both an educated and intelligent individual who knew absolutely nothing about TTC or what all it involves (other than the obvious) until I had a m/c. While I know it can be frustrating, try to take it easy on everyone...they aren't all fortunate enough to benefit from the knowledgable ladies on this board:)

You shouldn't need a board to have at least an idea how your body works. To me, knowing how you get pregnant is considered an "obvious".

Agreed. I haven't read TCOYF (though I plan to!) and only recently found this board. Before I found this board, I still knew how getting pregnant worked and how long it took for a positive to show up on a HPT. It's not rocket science.

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