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So I've decided that pregnancy is the time for normal healthy women to come to the doctor and ask all those things they've been dying to know, but often have nothing to do with pregnancy. Today's topic was nipples:
"I used to have my nipple pierced, but I don't have it in anymore. Can it get infected if my husband sucks on it?"
"I popped one of the little bumps on the edge of my nipple. Is that bad?"
And for the prize:
"What's an episiotomy? Does the military do one on everybody?"
Oh dear. That is some nasty rumor. For those that know about or have had one, you know it is not the sort of thing you just do on everybody.
One of my favorites responses to me giving information about pregnancy:
"How do you know? Do you have kids?"
Well, no. And there are certainly some things I don't know, that you don't learn in medical school or from talking to pregnant people all day. But come on, do you require that your cardiologist has had a heart attack? Or that your oncologist has had cancer?
All in all, an entertaining day in clinic.
"I used to have my nipple pierced, but I don't have it in anymore. Can it get infected if my husband sucks on it?"
"I popped one of the little bumps on the edge of my nipple. Is that bad?"
And for the prize:
"What's an episiotomy? Does the military do one on everybody?"
Oh dear. That is some nasty rumor. For those that know about or have had one, you know it is not the sort of thing you just do on everybody.
One of my favorites responses to me giving information about pregnancy:
"How do you know? Do you have kids?"
Well, no. And there are certainly some things I don't know, that you don't learn in medical school or from talking to pregnant people all day. But come on, do you require that your cardiologist has had a heart attack? Or that your oncologist has had cancer?
All in all, an entertaining day in clinic.