October 2013 Moms

Threatened trigger

Threatened abortion. It says on my checkout sheet from my OB. Can't they think of a better way to say "she's spotting, lets keep an eye on her"?Geez. Rant over.

Re: Threatened trigger

  • Whaaaaat?!
    Wow. There are no words for that.
    I'm sorry!
    I'm sure everything will be fine! Sending positive thoughts!
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  • I hate it when the office is so cut dry. Just remember they write in "Dr. Speak" for their own info. Doesn't reflect on you.
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  • Unfortunately in the medical world, this is pretty much the only term/reason why pregnant women spot when pregnant, even though there seems to also be a myriad of other reasons for it as well.

     Definitely keep your chin up, and consider the


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  • When I had my m/c my papers said "abortion" on them. I had a huge melt down over it and shouted at the nurse. Unfortunately, it's medical terms for a m/c.

  • Mc are coded as 640.03 AB threatened There is also codes for complete, habitual, incomplete, missed, and recurrent. A dc in the office I work in they say they are getting rid of the products of conception they rearly use the word abortion.
    BFP 11/24/2012 - EDD 08/02/2012 - MC 11/28/2012 @ 4w5d
  • That's so stupid. They should be a little more sensitive of their wording on things like that. 
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  • That's weird to me.  In my book, an abortion is elective.  A m/c is unwanted or natural.
  • I get it. Abortion is just such a charged term. He OB never used that term when we were talking, so I supposed it is part of the coding or whatever. It's medical use is just very disconnected from the widely used term. I about spit water all over my keybo
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    Unfortunately in the medical world, this is pretty much the only term/reason why pregnant women spot when pregnant, even
  • Yea their termonology sucks. i went thru that with dd. At week 5 i had spotting and passed several small clots. They found an empty sac and told me not to get my hopes up. Two weeks later at the next ultrasound there was a wiggly little baby with a strong

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  • imageT3hKay:
    They said the same thing on mine. It really irked me when they were describing the D&C procedure as an abortion...

    BFP #1 09/15/09, MMC 09/28/09
    BFP #2 06/04/12, EDD 02/09/13, MC at 6w3d on 06/18/12
    BFP #3 01/16/13, EDD 10/04/13, Born 09/17/13

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  • Elective abortion = choosing to end a pregnancy.
    Spontaneous abortion = miscarriage.

    It freaked me out too the first time a doctor asked me/I read it on a paper that abortion is used to universally mean "pregnancy loss" whether intentio
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