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It's policy ?!?! Really ?!?! (Maybe TMI)
So we did the whole tour thing with our hospital and got to ask all the annoying questions that the nurses hear 50 times a day. So DH and I are getting ready to leave and the nurse says "Oh and don't forget to shave down there -- it's policy and if you don't we will have to for you to keep the docs happy" Since when is that a requirement of delivery?
1) "No food allowed, only ice chips and an IV"
2) "We typically give an epi when you hit 4cm"
3) "Oh, and No hair allowed in your private area so as not to piss off the doctor"
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Re: It's policy ?!?! Really ?!?! (Maybe TMI)
LMAO.
Careful - you don't want a pissy doc delivering your baby!?
Um that seems crazy to me - who are they to dictate your pubic hair?!
And if a nurse came at me with a razor while I was in labor I would probably kick her. Hello - can we focus on the things that really matter here?!
So stupid!
Its bad enough there are like 10 people staring down there, but now they are going to shave it for you too?
That sounds ridiculous. If you don't want it done, it's your body refuse. I would also ask to see the policy in writting. It may just be one of the unwritten "rules" that all the nurses think is policy.
I think I'm going to go to that hospital...pretend to be in labor so they can shave for me. It's just too much work now and I'm not going to get waxed and have to have the poor lady who stared at my vag help me up.
and i hated the no food rule when i was in the hospital having dd. i was in labor for 3 weeks and at one point i broke down crying out of starvation and they actually let me leave (with all the tubes and such in my arms) to go get whatever I wanted to eat lol
LOL - I like how you think!!
"OMG hunny! My water broke! Quick get the mirror and meet me in the shower!"
Hmmm that is a thought ... so crying wolf could actually save me $50 on getting a wax. LOL
wow, really? I am an L&D nurse and we ONLY shave for sections at my hospital, and only about the top 1" (where the incision will be).
But we also allow our pts to have clear liquids (this includes jello, popsicles, hard candies...), and don't suggest epidurals. Not even all of our pts get IVs.....
I'm so sorry your hospital is like this
OMG. I turn red in the cheeks just thinking of what my OB must think of the patchwork quilt I probably have going on down there from random shaving.
I'd die if it was some sort of requirement. If it is, they really should have a waxing person on staff to handle that. IV...check. Epidural....check. Brazilian....check.
Seriously....I'd purposely not shave that area for the rest of the time and show up hairy as hell. Everywhere, including pits.
I almost peed myself!! LOL
I asked DH if he'd shave me before labor if I can't see it and he said you know if I do it I'll shave my name into it, haha.
Where in South FL? What hospital? That would be too much if it was the same hospital
That's so weird. Dh used to watch deliveries at our hospitals for school and he said he's never, ever seen a woman totally shaven down there while giving birth. They only shave for a c-section at our hospitals.
He said he can't think of any reason that hair would keep a doc from seeing what he's supposed to see, unless someone has some strange anomaly that causes them to grow hair where it doesn't normally grow!
Speaking of crotcha-art, it would be pretty entertaining to have DH shave some inappropriate message down there for the shave-requiring doc...
I can understand for a c/s around the incision location but really, you'd have to be hairy as heck to miss a baby crowning out of your va-jay-jay. I mean it's not like you grow hair on your perenium. Crazy! I've had 2 kids & no one has ever said a word...I keep things trimmed very short but I don't shave (I get bad razor bumps) nor do I wax (ouch)...when I get very huge tummy...my DH will do it for me...what can I say, you gotta do what you gotta do.
LMAO!!!!!
I was just thinking this! What kind of people do they have patronizing that hospital? How long is their pubic hair??
I'm getting a horrible vision of a doctor with goggles and a weedwhacker.
OMG, this is the best mental image yet. LMAO
Screw that - seriously. Hasn't your doctor been looking at it throughout your entire pregnancy? You can't tell me he isn't use to it by now.
I think it's the nurses who want it shaved, probably makes it easier to clean the blood off.
Where are you located? I'm in orlando.. I just want to make sure its not the same hospital lolol, I know you said South FL, but I just want to make sure anyway in case i'm at my inlaws house in ft.laud lol
Where are you located? I'm in orlando.. I just want to make sure its not the same hospital lolol, I know you said South FL, but I just want to make sure anyway in case i'm at my inlaws house in ft.laud lol
Don't worry hun -- you're in the clear! I'm in Boynton Beach or Boca Raton now that I am thinking of changing hospitals. I am actually going to go to the other hospital and ask if they have a policy like this. If not it's Hello new home!!!