HILARIOUS Gynecology TikToks 

Have y'all been enjoying the shorts we're posting lately? What would you like to see more of - shorts, regular vids, or longer form content?

Wanna know a secret? I actually feel *more* comfortable with the thought of my doctor conferring with other medical professionals, than with the idea of them just assuming themselves to always be correct.

As someone else in the healthcare field, nothing frustrates me faster than insurance. Upset patients? Fine, easy. Technological problems? Not even an issue. Insurance? I will snap the phone in half.

Listen, the fact you admitted you had no idea what some of the acronyms meant and looked them up and explained them to us makes me respect you even more! Being able to admit you don't know something and then saying "let's look this up together" is a sign of a competent provider 🥰

I'm a birth photographer who works with midwives. I can tell you the standing hammock looking technique is called a rebozo. I believe it's a Mexican or South American technique that can be done throughout pregnancy and up until birth to "wiggle the baby into optimal position" - also part of the "spinning babies model". Seems too gentle to have an effect, especially after a CA attempt that had failed. That baby is staying put, no wiggling will help. Lol😅

My husband suggested hanging a tennis ball at the end of the exam table like people do in the garage. 🤣🤣🤦‍♀️

I'm currently 15 weeks pregnant and for the rest of my appointments, I'm leaving my underwear on top of my clothes shamelessly every chance I get.

I’m a nurse, and we read and write that shorthand all the time. One time I showed it to my preteen daughter, and she asked if I learned it in nursing school. I said “yes.” She then asked if we had a whole class on it, and when I explained that no, we just had to pick it up in clinicals, she was horrified. 🤣

Was at an infusion center recently because I was getting iron infusions. An older woman there was being treated for cancer, who was visibly exhausted, constantly working on her laptop, attending company zoom meetings. And it was only so she could keep her job, to keep her health insurance. Crazy

My Gyno doesn't have an exam table. She has what looks like an open chair/toilet seat with a very high back. You simply sit on it. When she's ready to exam, she simply pushes a lever with her foot and it tilts and lowers/lifts as needed. There is no "scootching" required at all. It's genius and every office should have these! Btw, they aren't new..she had them in the late 90's.

The funny thing is: she explained the medical shorthand into its full meaning, and I’m still no closer to understanding than I was before 😂

I think the scooting down is a game. Once I went to my OBQYN and sat right at the edge, so we don't have to go through the "scoot closer" situation. Needles to say, the surprised silence was real and we had nothing to talk/laugh about. Since then I always play the game with him cause it makes us both happier and less awkward ahaha

Kiwi here, also someone with chronic illness who has been fighting to get seen by specialists and frequently turned away because I'm not "severe enough" since I was 13, the system here for sure isn't perfect, it could do with some massive improvements, got plenty of medical trauma to back that up, but good god am I glad to have what we do. I'd gladly take this over whatever is going on in the US. Also just because we have something that is better than other options, doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for better. If it can be improved we should always been fighting for that.

I lived in the US until I was 45, and I’ve lived in the UK for the past 18 years. Thank you for the blunt reminder that however bad the NHS is-and it is truly broken-it’s nowhere near as bad as US healthcare.

Had my smear test done recently and I thought I'd get ahead of the "scooch, scooch" and sat straight on the very end of the bed just to be told that her light doesn't reach so I had to shuffle up the bed to the normal position. 🤣🤣🤣 Just my luck 😂😂😂

OMG the cat kills me! Yes, falling off the bottom of the table is the scooch sweet spot. "Are we sexually active?" I'm 64. I don't know about YOU lady, but.....I tell them "inactive but ever hopeful." Thank you, thank you, for the chuckles.

I had the belly giggling technique done with my son. 🙋🏼‍♀️ He wasn’t fully breach, but still sideways. After about 5 minutes of annoying the hell out of him and making me want to vomit, he cooperated and I had him in 3 good pushes. 💪🏻💜 Edit: I think the “too much of a hurry” comment wasn’t specifically about a random technique some doctors use sometimes, but about OBs being in a rush in general. Even with zero risk or danger, doctors jump to cesareans, even early into pregnancies. The US especially is extremely behind the times of childbirth. We are driven by money, rather than the actual health and happiness of patients. (Just like you say later. Lol. Nailed it.)

I've used the scarf to shift baby into a more favorable position before (from asynclitic, not breech!). I believe it's from the rebozo technique, but we just call it "shake the apples"

The "the edge of the table should be in the middle of your back" made me holler🤣🤣🤣

As a New Zealander, although there are issues I come up against as someone with a rare genetic disease that doctors outside Auckland have never seen or managed, I remind myself every time I have issues that at least I didn't have to pay for my care and at least I got the major surgery I needed :)

I used to work in admin for a university department of medicine and our former head of the department, a cardiologists, started his career in the United States and worked in several different states and ended up moving to Canada where this university is and he told me point-blank that yes Canada has a few problems but the problems in United States are profoundly worse in every single possible way. I’m glad you get to see what government healthcare can be like and have that little bit of relief for a while.

That girl at 6:14 had me laughing. The way she was whispering certain parts and casually chewing gum was hilarious.

I think one of the worst experiences I have had with a gyno is when I was like 8cm dilated and she was so concerned with asking me about birth control. My husband yelled at her that I wasn’t in the mood to talk about birth control right now. Luckily there was a shift change so she didn’t deliver my baby.

7:10 as someone who was left exposed at 7 months pregnant with my legs in the stirrups while the doctor left the room to find a doppler and left the door ajar. I'd rather you whisper for help with things. It was humiliating being exposed in such a way

Gyno told me to take my feet out of the stirrups and my ass was so far down that I literally fell off the table. He turned away, I took my feet down said "Oh SHIT!", he heard a thump and turned back to see my naked butt on the floor laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.

Funny comment about underwear at the gyno. When my kid was a toddler maybe two almost three. She not only pulled my underwear out to give to me during the exam. But to hand them to me she ended up smacking the doctor in the face with them. I was mortified and from then on made triple sure I had a sitter. Luckily the doctor also had kids and was fully understanding.

I, too, am guilty of putting my undies under my pants when i go for my annual gyno appointment. Why do we do this?! 🤣🤣🤣

Hahhaha literally my first gyno appt when i was like 17, the second i put my foot in the stirrups , jazz music started, i was like wtf? And said “oh, do they always do that?” He was like “oh no, sorry that was my phone” 😂 i almost died of embarrassment! (This was also like 15 years ago, when everyone didnt all have the same ring tone hahah)

With regard to the first one, I once had a doctor stay with me while I partially undressed. I'd had a breast lump removed and he needed to check the wound. I can tell you that undressing in front of a doctor is very different from being undressed in front of a doctor. It made me feel sooo uncomfortable.

I see the OBGYN tmw and I’m mentally preparing by watching MDJ videos. As a victim of SA the OBGYN is a super tough and uncomfortable/unpredictable experience for me and ever since finding your videos you’ve helped me to cope with those experiences ❤️❤️❤️

UK midwife here! The using of the sheet to help turn baby is called rebozo. Limited research- the intention is to loosen up ligaments around the uterus to enable baby to turn.

Hi, Uk midwife here! The post ECV video was a Robozo. It’s a scarf technique used for centuries in South America mostly used for turning OP babies ❤ Love your videos!

I still get anxiety about the underwear thing because my very first every gynocologist appt at like 12 the doctor full blown yelled at me for leaving my underwear visible on the top of my clothing pile. She told me I was disgusting and that she was going to leave the room and when she came back she expected them to be put away. If it happened now or to my daughter I've tell her that her attitude was what was disgusting and storm out but at the time I was mortified and it lead to a real fear of gynocologist appts for quite some time.

I did learn something today. I learned that meds that go into the vagina are still called suppository. For some reason, I had always seen the term as anal only.

Doula here! Pretty sure she was using a rebozo. Mexican traditional wrap used to "sift" the belly. Never saw it done with the patient on her back though. They tend to be helpful in certain cases as there have been studies done!

11:10 SOOO ACCURATE!! I was basically completely celibate at one time and then had an unplanned encounter with a guy and he was shocked when i said I wasnt on birth control and responded fairly similarly to this. Like... we are gonna be using a condom dude. I dont even know if youre clean.

The one where you were talking about the pull out method reminded me of a quote from one the books in the Outlander series. Not verbatim but it went something like, "You know what they call people who use the pull out method?" "what?" "Parents." I had to stop the audiobook so I could laugh. It also reminds me though of how often my fiance is asked if there's a chance she's pregnant. The answer is always no, because I'm a transguy and her only partner. I usually have to mention that I'm trans before they drop the subject. 😂

I gave a urine sample the day before I was induced and the three nurses there all RAVED about how hydrated I was. Thanks guys. Dealing with hypertension that you guys are checking to make sure isn't turning into preeclampsia, but at least my pee is the right color. 👍

I feel so validated knowing everyone else hides their underwear too😂😂😂

They tried that towel thing on me during my last birth when my baby's head was engaged at a bad angle. It worked! He shimmied back down the birth canal and re-engaged. I gave birth vaginally a few hours later. He wasn't breech, though so it was probably easier.

My dad (who works in healthcare) got a 90 cent raise and we're now over the line for Medicare. The pandemic made it so that no one can get booted off of healthcare, but since there are rumors that the pandemic relief will cut off in April, we've been getting everything checked out now that we possibly can. I have hip problems, back problems, and possible sleep apnea, but the tests, x-rays, doctors visits, etc take months to happen. For the sleep apnea there is so much evidence that I have it, but the second doctors visit (first was consultation with an ENT) to set up the sleep test is in two months. Can't breathe? Too bad. Thanks US healthcare!

There’s a book where the daughter tells her physician mother , that she used the pull out method with her boyfriend & she couldn’t be pregnant. The mother says to her daughter “ you know what’s we call people who use the pull out method, parents “

A rebozo can help reposition a baby but it is often used while mom is on her hands and knees, not on her back. It is used by midwives and doulas in a few ways.

Ah! The rebozo method! Never seen it done while laying on your back. I also didn't know it was to attempt to shift the baby. I used to do it for lower back pain and pelvic relief when I was pregnant. I'd get on all fours, my husband would take a bed sheet and gently hoist my belly upward (towards my spine), and rock my belly left to right. FELT SO GOOD!

It's pelvic sifting with a reboso. I was told about this during ante-natal classes as something that could be tried in the weeks before labour to encourage the baby to be in the right position. I have no clue if it works, but it felt really good on my lower back and pelvis when I was in the third trimester.

2:53 THIS caught me so off guard, I nearly fell out if my chair laughing...

What you say about your job tied to your health is so true! My husband has epilepsy, and when we visit his neurologist, he always sends over a new refill, just in case. Well, he once sent it right when he had another refill already ready, which means on the Walgreens app it showed up as an "early refill" and wasn't covered by insurance Do you know how much a 90 day supply of epilepsy meds are without insurance? $1,300!!!!! He needs to take them every day or he has a seizure!!! And he only has a job cause I can drive him. But he wouldn't be able to work unless he had his meds. But he only has his meds cause work gives him insurance It still boggles my mind that your health is tied so close to your job

Hello, pelvic physical therapist here! At 4:35 they're using a rebozo sifting technique! Rebozo is the name of the piece of fabric, but a sheet or towel works fine too. There are many techniques from Mexico using the rebozo to support during birth. This one takes some pressure off the low back and pelvis, and it's something pelvic PTs learn to support during birth or teach support partners. I learned it as a pain relief technique primarily, but Spinning Babies teaches it as an option to help encourage fetal repositioning.

Im an L&D nurse. That sheet wiggling thing looks very similar to one step of a positioning circuit called the Gilligan's circuit that we use for turning OP babies. Weve never used it for verting breech babies though lol. For non epiduralized patients they can do this in a tub filled with enough water to support their hips and let them support their own weight. We don't stand on the beds, for patients with epidurals I grab another nurse and we use a draw sheet and stand on each side to lift her hips and wiggle baby up. This is just one step of the circuit, and the idea is to give baby a little bit of room to wiggle back up just enough to make rotating easier, and then we do right and left sidelying release to try and rotate baby. There are a couple other steps that we sometimes do. I don't know the stats but I think the circuit is successful enough to be worth trying when we suspect or know the baby is OP. I'm still new but I've had success with it.

A few years ago I became too was too sick to work and lost my job. I’m diabetic, I have Homozygous MTHFR, and BRCA 1. I didn’t have health care for two years. I felt awful all the time. I was also terrified of having another stroke and getting cancer because I didn’t have money for the medications and surgeries I needed. I was finally able to get government funded health insurance. No one should have to endure that. Something has to be done about the health care system in the US. Anyway, I definitely need a good laugh. Thank you for all your wonderful and educational videos!

One thing to add re: US Healthcare system: sometimes insurance companies try to practice medicine. When your doctor orders or prescribes something but your insurance company says you don't need that, have you tried all these standard options? But yet your records clearly show that you have. Then they deny it anyway because it's not the "typical" rx or treatment.

I gotta say, as someone who's not a healthcare worker, most of those factors are pretty close to breaking the patients, too. Especially the insurance part and the healthcare workers being pushed to see more patients in a day. Edit: Not only can losing your job affect your insurance and healthcare availability, but your ability to get insurance can also force you to have to take more hours on your job or to ask for a raise, just so you don't lose that insurance. I know this from experience. It happens to me once a year, 'cause every year Covered California raises their baseline, and if you're working minimum wage you're gonna get stuck on MediCal unless you work two jobs.

The “ you need to drink more water and the ice in your coffee doesn’t count “ part😂😂😂😂

Had a doctor tell me once that she had an OB colleague who bought a boat and named it “Scoot Down”

I agree with you regarding our broken healthcare system. I had surgery for cancer a few years ago, and was out on short-term leave during treatment. Because I was a few hours shy for qualifying for legal short-term protection, my employer dropped me from my health insurance in the middle of radiation. I told them I'd be stuck and unable to continue it, but they said that they couldn't help me. Yet CustomInk busts their ass to get named to the "best places to work" list every year. 😂

For the tik tok at 5:13, my dad did that to my sister when the doctor told her the baby was not facing the correct way. My dad held my sister by the arms and shook her side to side. My sister said it hurt a little but the baby was positioned correctly next time she went to the doctor. It's a mexican thing from what I've heard.

I had a pap test a while ago and because I have a tilted uterus and a high/ far back cervix, it took a fair while to get me into a position that would allow the nurse to swab me.... felt like I was doing yoga on the exam table! I love your vids and you are such a lovely person; can tell you really care about your patients and your viewers. Hope tomorrow is a better day for you

The sheet thing is called sifting. I’ve see midwives do it to try to encourage rotation in a funny side up baby. And seen it work. But never to flip a breech!

My baby turned breech at 38+6 (was head down at 38+5). I used some Spinning Babies techniques similar to this and acupuncture as I wasn’t a candidate for an EGC. Baby was confirmed head down by 39+1 and arrived less than a week ago. 😊

I definitely agree with the Healthcare part. I'm currently living in the UK for my masters, and I'm hoping to stay here. I never felt that I belong in the US, but I also have Athsma and fibromgia. When I registered and got my NHS number I teared up. Because now I know I can go to ay doctor to be treated and if I get sick I don't have to worry so much about insurance. It's not perfect here either, but I still prefer socialized Healthcare too.

You know it's good when you have to keep pausing and replaying the video cus you were laughing too hard 😂

8:59 PSA: If you're someone who researches too much on the internet when your doctor can't give you an answer that works for your problem of almost constant yeast infections and then makes your own boric acid suppositories: DO NOT USE REGULAR BORIC ACID. The boric acid in those is not the crystals you see for killing bugs, it's a powdered form you can find at a pharmacy.

Not an OB or midwife and don't know about that technique for a breech baby either, BUT as a doula I do some techniques similar for labor comfort (though with the person on all fours usually) that are really effective for comfort mostly and possibly have a positional benefit (but not necessarily breech presentation).

9:22 ALSO…I’m a prior authorization specialist for a specialty pharmacy. I HATE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THE INCOMPETENT PPL THEY HIRE!!! And I say that with over 20 years pharmacy experience!!! I had one try to argue that a certain injectable medication comes in single packaging and that’s why a PA was denied. Give me an NDC to look up (that I know by heart) and CLEAR AS DAY it’s a double pack. Asked her if she bothered to look it up herself? She did…oh. It says 2. Yes bitch. It does!!! 👿😡🤬

9:48 facts 💯, from a professional patient (= 3 chronic illnesses) 12:40 every Dr should feel confident enough to call a colleague when they have that feeling their treatment method could be wrong/*done different/better/or just need validation. My surgeon took “45 extra min”, to save my tatto, he is my rockstar. As a patient that doesn’t fit in a box, this is what I look for in a great Dr! *edit

Would you be up to making a video about hysterectomies and endometrosis? I had to get a hysterectomy in my very early twenties and it was really hard to get reliable information about long term risks!

Lol whenever I hear socialized Healthcare people complain, I can't help but laugh because they'll say "yeah you have to pay a bunch but you get to see someone right away. You have to wait three whole months to see someone" and im here like "yeah waitlists here are 3-6 months for EXISTING patients. And I have to pay $600 MINIMUM each visit without insurance. Or 100-200 with insurance"

I love that you talked about the last bit of how medical professionals are also people and training just cannot replace what it's like to make independent decisions and own up to them, no matter the field of expertise. And actually that feeling can come up again even after many years, when an issue is on the more unique side. These were fun. And imagine that, I was JUST in the underpants situation earlier today and because I have actually actively questioned my behaviour, I made a conscious choice to leave my underwear out on top, in the order of putting my clothes back in again. And I told myself I have to reason for shame and that this makes sense. And I felt really good about it. Cause I'm on my way to dismantle all the learned and unwarranted shame that we learn subconsciously and teach absolutely without intent via modelling. Internalised subconscious shame is really hard to weed out. But then suddenly there's a lot more freedom, when the new consciously formed habits start to settle in. I'd like to know if boys borther to hide their boxershorts and underpants for exams. I'm genuinely curious. I can imagine it, since there's also stuff like boys feeling ashamed of moms attending to their underwear laundry etc. It is instinctive to hide vulnerabilities. And somehow underwear in and off itself is burdened with the notion shame. Bodies are. That stuff is running really deep!

It is rebozo sifting. Some hospitals are using this as a technique now, but midwives and different cultures have used it for many years. I have heard it more for getting baby in a better position, like turning a little, engaging the head, not so much completely turning a breech baby. It can also be done with mom in different positions - sitting and standing - so the person doing it wouldn't necessarily need to stand on the bed. I am guessing in this case it was a last ditch try to turn baby and it couldn't hurt anything.

As an MD myself, I laughed way too hard at the video with the various medical acronyms. Yes, it is sometimes so tempting to read it that way!

I have MS, and I had a hospital stay that lasted 10 days in 2019, during which two of my physicians told me the American healthcare system was broken and hanging by a thread. An entire year before COVID,they were warning me to be proactive about my healthcare because no-one else was going to be an advocate for me in our system. I already knew this because I had been struggling for years dealing with insurance and other things, but it was shocking to hear it from the doctors themselves.

Husband and I used pull out method because we were ok if we got pregnant. Did that for 10 yrs and the only two pregnancies we had were planned and both took 3 months to occur. Only recommend if you are in a caring, committed, stable, monogamous relationship with finances to support a child. I stayed home nearly 22 yrs with our 4 daughters. (We each had one from a previous marriage.)

I don't know why the "penis clean-ish" got me 🤣🤣

I see an NP who is sitting there constantly googling my symptoms while I am talking to her. Some people might feel like that is a sign of ineptitude, but I feel like hey she's actually listening to me and trying to figure out the problem.

CNM here. The Breech sifting is a rebozo technique that comes from indigenous midwives form Mexico and Guatemala. the shawl is called a rebozo. more used to encourage OP to OA vs breech from what i've seen :)

The thing with the sheet is called Rebozo. It's not something I've trained in, but definitely something I'd love to learn. From my loose understanding, there are various positions you have the pregnant person adopt, then the Rebozo (that's the name of the scarf) is jiggled like that to lift the presenting part. I've heard of it used for malpositions, but not for breech, but I imagine the same theory applies. Can't comment on its effectiveness though as it's only something I've read about, not seen used.

I had an external cephalic version with my second kid, definitely not fun but I preferred it to a C-section. 😅

My pelvic floor PT (who does VERY THOROUGH pelvic exams with great frequency) said that the “scooch scooch scooch is primarily because of the shape of the speculum. Which makes sense bc when you are in labor and having a cervical check they don’t make you scooch.

As someone who is watching from India it is so new to me to see doctors tell their patients what is happening to them and tell them what pills they required to take. In the part of India where I am from the doctors just ask you questions and diagnose you and give you the prescription( obviously in a handwriting that we don't understand😂). Even when we do ask questions not all but some get mad at us.

A Kiwi with an American partner chiming in here - my partner recently had a referral for a specialist eye exam in Christchurch, which could either be done privately or through the public healthcare system. Private healthcare isn't actually better quality in NZ; it basically means you skip the queue and get seen quicker (a lot of specialists work in both public and private settings). Since the vast majority of people don't have health insurance here, going private means having to pay out of pocket, something that GPs are very sensitive to. Turns out my partner's GP was friends with the specialist, and so managed to negotiate for my partner to only pay the consultation fee while the tests were free. This worked out to be about only $200 USD - my partner's parents literally couldn't compute not just how cheap this was, but also the willingness to waive fees basically out of the principle that healthcare shouldn't cause financial struggles. People complain about healthcare in NZ (sometimes with good reason) but I'm thankful every day that we never have to worry about losing our home or life savings to medical costs.

These are all great. I do a lot of women's health and I tell people to scootch down until it "feels like you're hanging out in space" (and I do explain why) - those videos made me laugh. Re: the "texting my former co-residents" - I've been a doc for almost 23 years, and I still go into where the other docs in my office are sitting and say, "I have a doctor-brain question" (meaning, I don't have a specific question for a specific doc, but I want feedback from the "hive mind"). Bravo. :)

10:20 I had what I'm pretty sure was a UTI about a year ago. I say 'I'm pretty sure' because I had this painful condition where it hurt literally EVERY time I peed for TWO months before I went to the doctor.(I waited two months because I'm poor and no insurance) I hadn't had intercourse in years (not an STI) and so all signs pointed to a UTI. The test came back negative. So he ordered a vaginitis test... because it burned when I went pee... and we all know that the two are close... so... maybe? Yeah, that test also came back negative. He prescribed the same goddamned antibiotics he would have if he hadn't ordered those two tests though, and, surprise of surprises, I got better!!! Its not like I asked for narcotics. I just wanted to pee without crying from the pain in my cooch. Just give me the frickin antibiotics without charging me $160 for the dr fee and another $160 for the tests. Please.

Hitting home too hard. My whole life is ruined, including my ability to work as a doctor, after getting chronic illness in America. Too real 😢

One of my OB/GYNs used to put comic strips on his ceiling for his patients to read while laying on the exam table. It really helped to ease the nerves.

I had to explain to my younger sister, who already has 2 kids, that the pullout method is not a guarantee lol

They are trying to turn the baby using a rebozo. It is a traditional method of repositioning the baby, I think from Mexico/Central America indigeneous culture. I have no idea how effective it is.

I have a friend. Her and her husband had exclusively (pre and post marriage) used the pull out method. They successfully avoided pregnancy for many years, and then the *first* time they didn't pull out because they were actually trying, she got pregnant. 2nd time around, they did the same thing, just didn't pull out, and she was freaking out, going to herbalists etc because she wasn't getting pregnant - at 8 months in. I asked why she was so worried and that, there up above, was her story about why she thought her hormones were "out of whack" and messing with her fertility after trying for less than a year. I was kind of offended on behalf of stats everywhere is all I'm saying.

I have never seen an episode about a ruptured corpus luteal cyst and I think that it would be a great and informative video. I was 22 when it happened and a doctor from another area I lived at the time refused to allow me to return back home for a checkup with my gyno (I needed a signed document to leave my job for a few days) because ‘it is something that can happen to all women’ and somehow I ended up bleeding internally for 3 weeks and almost dying from septicemia. Thankfully I was able to return in time for me to get an immediate surgery but I really do believe that it would make a great video since not that many people know about this and neither did I.

Love it. Currently in the US military health system where we have essentially socialized medicine. When I get out, my plan is to move to NZ to practice.

I think it makes a lot of sense to contact another medical professional that you trust to look for further insight or support. It shows professionalism, that you are willing to learn and that you want to make sure that you are offering the best care for your patients. All things I'd love to see in my doctor.

OMG, PREACH! I have been so frustrated with our broken system in the US. When you actually start to need that insurance (ie get chronically ill) you lose your job and your insurance. COBRA payments are extortional and my state is an "at will" employer. They can terminate you with no reason and do not have to give you, or even have, a reason for doing so. Insurance is one of the biggest scams in our society.

Just so grateful for your channel. I look forward to your videos, thanks for all the information!

My second was head down then moved to transverse. My doc had me do some exercises where I was on my hands and knees (don’t remember exactly, he’ll be 24 in 5 weeks). It worked! I remember when he turned again. Ouch.

MDJ advocating for healthcare equality! 😁

The second one, I could read that shorthand (and gleefully went OH I KNOW WHAT THAT IS before Dr. Jones looked it up), but I'm Med/Surg. Also: that's not a surprising PMH for a patient of that demographic. 🤣 This is admittedly why shorthand can be frustrating though. I can recognise MOST of what a doctor puts into a note, but there's a few abbreviations that none of us on the floor can recognise.

Having a little sign that says scoot down a little more on your exam room ceiling is a much better idea than the George Clooney poster my first obgyn had on their exam room ceiling.

I’m asexual and have never had a pap smear, but the thought of it ABSOLUTELY terrifies me. ☹️ I’m honestly hoping that I never have to since I have no plans of being sexually active, ever. Ever ever ever

I was struggling so badly with my chronic illness, I burned up my STD and got "personal leave" which left me 3 months to "figure something out". I ended up just marrying my partner (3 years together, 1 year living together, so not too ridiculous). I love him, I planned to marry him eventually anyway, but I hate that I *needed* to in order to not lose access to health insurance.

When my midwife first checked the position of my baby she said that the baby had her head down but facing forward, which is a bit uncommon. She actually said that in labor the midwife at the hospital might try to put a sheet on my back pelvis and shake to try and turn the baby around. Note that this was just turning the baby to come with her face down, not turning the whole body around from a seated to a head-down position. Luckily she turned on her own :)

The tiktok about the gyno lady joking about the pullout method made me cackle; I was born of a mixture of the rhythm and pull-out method. I love telling people that whenever they tell me they're using either of those methods without condoms lmao