Reddit for NIGHTMARE Medical Questions from Facebook Mom Groups? (r/sh*tMomGroupsSay) 

Performing self surgery like that is crazy! At the same time, this is what desperate people do when they don’t have access to local and affordable healthcare

"What kind of family would require a child's help to sew fingers back on?!??!" Farmers. It's always the farmers. They think they know a thing or two because they've seen a thing or two.

don't wanna sound scary but my immediate reaction (I'm a midwife) to "what are the risks for baby and me" (the home birth alone despite doctor and midwife advising against it) was saying "death" out loud.

The most disturbing thing in these is that they're not looking for advice on making a good decision. They're asking to be coached on how to approach the doctor with their risky decision. Not "is this a good idea?" But "I know I don't want to, tell me why". This is the lethal mindset.

How many of these issues could have been resolved with having affordable access to medical care and not worrying about significant expenses?

Love how Americans have to do home surgery because it's too expensive to visit a doctor 🤦🏼 USA #1???

As a NICU nurse, I cringed SOOOO hard about the home birth one. Some of the worst babies I've had were from unassisted home births or assisted by untrained people.

I feel your pain. I'm a retail pharmacist and the number of times i have to tell ppl NOT to soak tampons in (vinegar, bleach, various scented oils, yogurt to make a few) is mind boggling.

I'm a Texas resident. I got charged over $500 for my Nexplanon removal after insurance covered their portion. I understand people need to get paid for their services and medical supplies need to be replaced, but 1-2 cc lidocaine, a scalpel, some iodine, some sterile gloves, forceps/ hemostats, and a 3 minute procedure and I still had hundreds of dollars in debt after insurance? Not at all fair.

Sewing multiple fingers on - Farmer. Seriously. Farm equipment is known for removing body parts.

I’m in this group and there was a recent post about a woman in that same free birthing FB group who still hadn’t given birth at 44 weeks and whose baby hadn’t moved in awhile :/ refused to go to a hospital because she had homebirthed her other children and was determined to see it through. it’s wild how many women are willing to sacrifice their baby’s wellbeing out of stubborness

My mom is a nurse and has a story like this. She was in school (think about 19), and someone asked if she wanted to witness their home birth with a midwife. She shows up and there's no midwife. They had complications and my mom had to do cpr on the baby all the way to the hospital

The worst one I had read was a woman was in labor doing a home birth w/her husband and said she "felt like she had to poo" but there was no progress for hours and her contractions were getting weaker. So instead of going to the doctor her husband uploaded a photo of her DIALATED birth canal (see her cervix and the tip of the baby's head inside) on the group to ask for answers and they encouraged her to STAY HOME and try yogurt or some pickle juice as she said she was feeling really tired and sick. The one person who told her the baby could be stuck in the canal and call the hospital was banned.

Thank you SO much for covering that the odds don't matter when it happens to you. At 25, I had a low-risk second pregnancy. My daughter was born not breathing; when the cord was cut, her body didn't take over. It took 5 minutes to resuscitate her *in hospital*. She would not have survived a home birth and yet, there were no warning signs. I'd already had a relatively simple delivery with her older sister. I always feel awkward sharing my story because I'm not trying to fear monger pregnant parents. At the same time, I'm the 1 in whatever number who would have lost my child at birth. The odds don't matter when you're burying your baby.

I was all for home birth with my second child but my husband felt more comfortable at the hospital. My baby had shoulder dystocia and was going to suffocate before they could get him out. An angel in the form of a hospitalist who just happen to be on the code team and delivered babies in her practice thankfully got him out. He still required resuscitation. I’m forever grateful every one of those people was there and to my husbands need to “hear things beeping” to calm his nerves.

"It goes fine until it doesn't." Truer words have never been spoken. 👏

When I was a kid we didn’t have health insurance for a long time. One of my earliest memories was when I was about 4 and my mom had a long, deep gash on her leg. She had me help her stitch it up. She used a sharp embroidery needle and sewing thread. My job was to wipe it with a cloth soaked in alcohol, then quickly press an ice cube against the gash until she told me to stop between each stitch. The hope was that the ice would numb the skin in between stitches. I don’t know if it worked or not. She didn’t use any of the stitch methods doctors use, she just used a regular whip stitch. By some miracle it healed really well without getting infected. But when my dad (they were divorced) found out she had me participate in that, he was furious. Not that I blame him. The American healthcare system is a gem, isn’t it? Driving people to desperate measures like that? Best in the world. /s

The RH- one is really uncomfortable for me to hear. My grandma is RH-, and my mom and all 4 of her siblings are RH+ the last three born were once they were experimenting with treatment for RH- moms who already had antibodies (my grandma volunteered to be one of the later stage test subjects before treatment was fully approved). Only one made it all the way to term, most needed blood transfusions, and one didn’t make it. My youngest aunt was one of the earliest premies able to be saved with minimal lasting damage, and the youngest (my only uncle) died at 18 weeks gestation. It’s not something to be taken lightly, and there are millions of families throughout history that would have given anything for access to the treatments we have now. An aunt, my grandma, and I have all lost babies and there was nothing we could do about it, it makes me angry when people have perfectly safe methods of preventing the type of loss they’re prone to and they refuse to do it because “big pharma”.

I overheard a woman at work saying she didn’t want to go to a doctor for her pregnancy (she was pretty far along from what I could tell) because “it’s not a medical issue; it’s personal” and I wanted to scream at her

i went from perfectly fine and pushing a kid out to losing enough blood that within 10 mins of the baby coming out fully, i was unconcious and had a surgeon outside my room planning to remove my uterus entirely if they didnt stop the bleeding soon. i was quite literally 30 seconds from having no uterus at age 19 with zero problems besides some minor anemia throughout life. I would have died before a call to 911 could even be made at home. i had so many meds pumped into me in the course of the 5 mins of bleeding out and losing conciousness that if i was home, it wouldnt have taken half that time to pass away...

as a greek I can safely tell you that greek yogurt is only recommended to be consumed from the mouth and never inserted in any other hole on the human body... maybe that person has mixed the "eat yogurt when you take antibiotics" which is something that older people suggest, and since there is nothing wrong with EATING yogurt, we keep on doing so lol

The first story made me appreciate living in Canada so much. I got my implant removed within a week of talking to my doctor about my side effects. It was super quick and easy they numb the area and it was out in under 10 min. I cannot even imagine taking that out myself.

My late grandfather was a born prematurely about 90 years ago. My family always said the doctor assumed he was DOA but a nurse realized he was alive after everyone gave up on him and saved his life somehow. I don't plan on having kids, but this story always made me appreciate having more medical professionals in the room than just one midwife at home.

I'm a huge fan of home births... and I'm pregnant and planning to give birth at home... but holy yikes to the woman with the bleeding issues still wanting to do this. I live 1 mile from the hospital and with a bleeding issue I still wouldn't dare. Common sense isn't too common, sadly.

That first one is definitely rural medicine. If the only clinic within an hour doesn’t call a farmer/rancher back right away, they’ll just do it themselves.

There is also a story of a woman who had a "trauma-free home birth" of a blue in the face baby on this subreddit. This story is in a few posts, it began with her writing about her baby not being able to hold his head at 9 months old... And then there was the birth story, the baby wasn't breathing when born and only cried after feeding the next day. Horrible stuff, as far as I remember the people who were reading her posts called CPS on her. But anyway it would be nice to have you comment on this birth story, if you could find it.

The yogurt thing made me laugh because it made me remember a story my mom told me about being told by a doctor to douche with yogurt. Following up with a nurse who asked her if she had been using the yogurt douche my mom told her she'd been trying but the blueberries kept clogging the nozzle. She of course promptly told the horrified nurse she was joking.

My mom (who passed away 17 years ago) was one of these people who didn't want to go to the hospital (and tried to have me, their 4th kid, at home). I think the source of the majority of these forums are a combination of 1) medical fear: doctors, hospitals, and medical procedures are all scary, and it's hard to trust someone you don't know with your life and 2) medical care is expensive in the U.S. Getting stitches adjusted by your doc seems like the better option but how much more will that cost? Having your birth in the hospital sounds safer but how much will THAT cost. I know, it's very easy to say "but it's that or YOUR life", but if someone can't afford to pay for their medical care, they might literally think it's not worth saving their life. I come from a family like that, and even though I don't believe that's the way to live my life, I understand it.

With the first woman, since she's saying that she'd have to drive 8 hours, my guess is that her father was a rural medicine doctor back in the day when it might have been a little bit more acceptable to have you teenager act as your nurse from time to time. Or hand surgeons had some epic take your daughter to work days. Or her dad was a farmer and the fingers being reattached were his own or a friend's.

When we were learning about blood types in 7th grade, my science teacher did not believe I had a positive blood type and my mom had a negative blood type. 🙄

Coming from a family who have always just barely scraped by financially, and also deal with a lot of health issues, I dread to think what would have happened to us if we didn't live in a country with access to free health care. A few years ago I experienced heart failure and spent almost a month in intensive care (including my 20th birthday, lucky me lol) and it didn't cost me or my family a single penny. I don't even want to imagine how much that would have cost us if we'd had to pay for it. I have so much empathy for people struggling with medical bills, I wish you all the best.

The scariest thing about the first one for me is the "I had two other people take theirs out as well". If you want to do impromptu surgery on yourself - seriously, don't - that's one thing, but don't encourage others to do it! Not to mention the fact that if this person died (which considering your tearing your arm open, you could bleed out if you misjudge your cuts), the brothers and GF would most likely be held liable. All the laugh-crying faces and the lols, this person is not only putting themselves but multiple others at risk.

The video starts: "I removed my own nexplanon" Me: "Nexplanon?!?!?!?! The birth control that goes in your arm???!!!!!!!!!!" The video continues Me: *abject horror*

Setting a petri dish on fire, also kills the fungus. Just saying. 🤣

You're totally right in that childbirth goes fine... until it doesn't. I'm forever grateful for the team of doctors and nurses who acted fast and got my baby out and resuscitated after she got stuck (shoulder dystocia) and her heart rate plummeted to the 50s. It was so terrifying and I absolutely cannot imagine this happening at home. I had a normal, healthy, full term pregnancy.

In 2020 I had 7 stitches in the back of my hand after accidentally slicing it open. Because it was in the height of the initial lockdowns where doctors weren't seeing anyone in person I really didn't have any other option than to remove them myself. They were getting very tight and uncomfortable as I'd had them in a good three weeks longer than I was supposed to. I used very sharp tiny nail scissors and tweezers (I sterilised both as best I could) and apart from one suture where it had formed a scab over the knot they were painless and easy to remove. I trust my husband with my life but he has incredibly shaky hands and I would never let him near my vulva with scissors.

The lady in labor, bleeding for so long; I was dilated at 3 cm for three weeks before my water broke. There wasn’t any bleeding either. So my doctors *didnt* want to induce me because her lungs hadn’t fully developed. so I was in labor for three weeks. I was seeing my OB and a specialist every other day but I wasn’t bedridden either. I was working at my desk with my hips separating. Yes, it was incredibly painful for three weeks but I did everything I could to make sure my kid was okay and that’s the point. Do what your doctors and midwives tell you to do.

My baby wanted to come out butt first so I had to have a c section after my contractions started. I had wanted to have a vaginal birth but I wouldn't consider risking my health and my baby's. That person not listening to doctors and midwives is scary!

I really wanted to have a homebirth with my third baby. At the time there were very few midwives providing this service where I live and the cost was way beyond our means. I planned to have an unassisted birth at home. We lived within about 5 minutes of the hospital and I felt confident that we could be there very quickly if I identified a need to be. I still had regular checkups throughout my pregnancy with both my GP and the hospital midwife service (it's called Shared Care.) At my first ultrasound ~18 weeks it was noted that I had a low lying placenta; so I had repeat scans at ~28 and ~36 weeks. Unfortunately the placenta remained low and close to my cervix. Additionally, at my 36 week check up I tested positive after the Group B Strep swab. Although I was so, so disappointed, I knew that proceeding with my homebirth plans with these identifed risk factors would be an unwise and unnecessary risk. So I can understand the desire that these women in the stories you featured in this video had - we all have our idea of the perfect birth experience and it's hard to let go of that. I count myself fortunate that the reason I wanted a homebirth was not because of any particular traumatic or bad experience with my previous hospital births, I just loved the idea of being in my own space and not having lot of strangers around. (I'm an introvert.) I feel very sad that the mothers like the ones in this video and that you hear about in the news sometimes have such intense fear and distrust of hospital, doctors, midwives, etc that they are unable to make rational choices for themselves despite the evidence telling them it is the safest thing to do. It's a terrible reflection on the health education they have received and the quality of healthcare available to them when they would rather have no healthcare than expose themselves to what they fear.

I love it -- "My doctor gave me some advice and a treatment plan that I don't like, so let me check on Facebook to see if some random stranger on the internet can offer me a better alternative." This person deserves the Darwin Award. Unfortunately, there's a baby involved so it's not just that one person who will suffer the consequences of her stupidity. Like MDJ, I have no words.

As a mlt student, hearing how she refused to get the rhogam shot made me shudder. Please talk to professionals about how the rhogam shot works. Please don't ask Facebook

The blood type information is interesting! Historians believe that’s why Henry VIIIs wives kept miscarrying or having stillbirths; he likely had a positive blood hold and his wives were negative.

I had a yeast infection while pregnant with my 2nd baby. I’ve never had one before. I only knew what it was because I heard my sisters talk about it. I made an app with my OB, not an issue. She prescribed monistat and all is done. My hubby mentioned it in passing to my MIL. She was PISSED! She told me to not take the monistat, just have the hubby shove yogurt in my hoo-ha. I told her I’ll take the monistat and I’m fine. She started yelling at me that I can’t take it because SHE is allergic to antibiotics. I was shocked. Safe to say, I don’t take advice from her on anything, ever.

It's not specifically OBGYN related, but there is something comforting in hearing you say that the odds don't matter when you're the one who has to deal with it. I've been dealing with so many medical issues all my life, and recently there have been a lot of uneducated people telling me to just do something that puts me at risk of losing what health I have left because "what are the odds it'll really hurt this time?" It only really matters when you're in that percent, and I keep falling into that percent. And of course, the response is just kind of, "oops, oh well" when it could have been avoided with just a little more responsibility, or at leastno one making a stink and trying to prevent me from protecting my own health. Also, it seems like I'm encountering a bunch of potential side effects to my various medical issues that I had no idea could be side effects...because no one told me about it until I was already being effected by it, sometimes for years.

Another great video! I just want to say that I was a "low-risk" pregnancy, but I am so glad we chose to go to the hospital. My baby swallowed meconium and needed help breathing right away. He stayed in the NICU for almost a week. I'm so grateful for the team of people who were there and ready to help him breathe. He is currently 10 months old. Happy and healthy.

I miscarried the same way as the last story when I was 17, no one ever explained it to me really and I have been confused ever since (the past 10 years). I would be interested in a video on this topic. I haven’t had any pregnancies since then and I am worried about being pregnant in the future.

“Just throw the pantry and the refrigerator right in your vagina, fixed everything.” Lmao. I was laughing so hard while trying not to wake up the house. Lol. Best line

For anyone in Australia rhogam is called an Anti-D shot here. I had 3 shots during my pregnancy (normally u just get 2 but I was bleeding at 6 weeks so they gave me a shot the, in case I was miscarrying and then I had one at 20weeks then another at 36 weeks) Because I’m blood type A-, my baby turned out to be A+ so I’m glad I got the shots, especially as I needed an emergency C-section.

My grandmother had multiple miscarriages due to being rh- and having a husband who was rh+ before treatment options were available.

Would love to hear more about the Rhogam shot! I'm Rh negative, and had two kids, so I had to get this shot.. but the doctors never did a great job of explaining either time.

Oh lord, this reminds me way too strongly of when I worked as a veterinary nurse. The crap people pull because they just didn't think to ask or weren't willing to seek help...and then you've got an emergency, long term consequences, or a fatality instead of a five minute phone call to the clinic. It's like you said - most of the time things are fine, but when they aren't, there are serious consequences. Idk why so many people go online instead of to a professional.

The odds can go wrong, I was a healthy 24 yo with my first child, low risk pregnancy, in labor and labor going perfectly well, until my child’s heart rate drop, my water breaks and the cord go out causing an emergency code to be announced and my child was born with a c-section literally FIVE minutes later ! She came out crying and was with perfect health, if I was at home, I can’t even imagine how terrible everything would’ve been

Years ago, my sister in law had a norplant. After bleeding contastantly for 6 months and gaining a lot of weight, she asked to get it removed. They didn't want to and she finally told them she would herself. They finally got her in to remove it. It scared me and I never wanted a birth control device I couldn't remove myself.

When I was growing up I learned the fact that Grandma from my father's side who had 15 children (yes, you read that correctly, nothing religious just an old rural-ish Mexican family) had an O- Blood type, and EVERY SINGLE ONE of my aunts and uncles, including my father, have positive blood types. Not a single one of the births or pregnancies had complications and she never gave birth in a proper hospital. She lived until 98 and was incredibly healthy till her last years. Just hearing you talk about this amazes me beyond comprehension, the fact that all of them manage to get so lucky and nothing terrible ever happened is just incredible.

The story of removing their own stitches just reminds me of a story from when my Dad was working out in Tajikistan. His colleague (N) had surgery a few weeks before hand and had some stitches post op which were healing but it was fine she had an appointment to get them removed when she got back to Germany. The project got extended by 3 weeks and they got told that they wouldn't be flown back to the UK or Germany respectively, until it was done- 2.5 weeks after N's stitches were due to be taken out. N arranged a video consult with her very understanding surgeon who told her to get them taken out locally. They asked the company's fixer to help them find a doctor for N- no luck, due to some translation errors they were taken to a pharmacist who didn't speak English German or Russian. They had hard less than 48 hours until they were back in full time meetings so what did the two of them decide? They bought rubbing alcohol, scissors, tweezers, bandages and a large bottle of vodka. Dad phoned a mate back home to ask how to take out stitches and decided they were ready. They both had a swig of the vodka, sterlised everything with the rubbing alcohol and Dad took out N's 16 stitches in the bathroom of her hotel room while she drank the rest of the bottle. It's amazing what people will do when desperate.

My mother was one of those for whom it went fine until it didn't. She had me at home, and things took a while, but were fine. Then she had my brother and things went long and the birth itself happened ok until the end where she nearly bled to death. Thankfully, the issue with not going to the hospital was financial (why, yes, I do live in the U.S. ... how could you tell?) and so when things went sideways, her sister took her straight to the hospital and they were able to save her.

Would love a series on perimenopause and menopause issues! Particularly, birth control during this time!

i’m a medical student, and i had a mom ask me yesterday if we ever run out of enzymes, like we’re just born with a certain amount of enzymes for our life and eventually we just run out of them. i was like, we would die

My mum tried to remove her nexplanon herself after the doctors refused to because her side effects were so bad. It's devastating to think how desperate someone has to be to do that. And we're in the UK with free healthcare. They just wouldn't listen to her. She was unsuccessful and has a nasty scar from trying.

The cost of removing an implant should be included in the cost of implanting it. Insurance companies can reserve the costs so if they pay to put one in, they can pay to take it out even if the insured is no longer covered. If we're not going to get universal Healthcare for the good of society then we can improve the tools we got.

Let me just say, I’m so fucken happy we have Medicare here in Australia 😅😅

This is a huge problem across the board in the us a lot of people will put off going to the doctor until it gets super bad because it is expensive.

When I got my nexplanon taken out the nurse told me after that the person that put it in had it in the completely wrong spot and had inserted it right next to an artery. So if I decided to take it out myself there's a high chance I would have bled out and died. Luckily I'm in the UK and didn't have to pay for it so 🤷

My sister had a placental abruption and almost died and she was at the hospital. Thankfully her and the baby were fine after an emergency C-Section.

I’m actually in a FB group for people who have bad side effects from nexplanon. Some doctors refuse to remove it before the 3 year mark. Some of them have gotten desperate and removed it by themselves.

My dad had a chunk of finger come partly off when he was drunk. He just slapped it back into place and bandaged it up. He got so sick with blood poisoning. Ended up having to see the doctor many times. He's a teacher, and normally smart enough, they were just having a fun party. This is the same guy who was a walking spinal for three weeks- he fought with his doctors that something was still wrong and they were like, nah, we took xrays, you're fine. They missed it by 1 vertebrae.

In 2015 I considered doing this. I had extreme pain in my arm, and google suggested it was hitting a muscle, but no doctor would listen to my requests to take it out until I'd been saying I was thinking of removing the implant from my arm at home. At the same time, I was also taking antidepressants, and felt extremely suicidal. If I'd known the conflicts with the hormones that would have helped me realise where the symptoms were coming from. Ironically, 2015 was the year a male psychologist told me I was "cured" of depression because I'd broken up with a specific person - but I don't think I was "cured" if they then prescribed me antidepressants, right? I felt that a lot of my symptoms eased after I had the implant removed. The pill is easier to manage from my perspective.

Wow that first story reminds me of my best friend! Her husband cut her nexplanon out of her arm too. They really wanted a baby but couldn't get an appointment because covid had just hit. He was in the marines and said he felt comfortable doing it.. lol. Now they have 2 beautiful children though! That'll be quite the story to tell them when they're 16 lol.

As someone who lives in a country where we have a proper healthcare system, these stories sound like the kinds of things we learnt about in history at school! Our health service has it's own issues, but I don't know anyone who has considered performing surgery on themselves due to lack of access to proper healthcare.

Eurgh... The stitch one.... My stitches were too tight as well and I felt like my vulva would rip everytime I sat down (which you do all day when you breastfeed). My midwife visited and got them out with some kind of bladed hook. She pulled on one and it did not cut. THE FREAKING PAIN.

I'll admit when my daughter had stitches I took them out for her. But it was after the time frame the surgeon had told us, she was pulling and them and complaining (she was 3 and it was a forehead wound), they weren't soluble, and our GP was closed or booked out for the next four days. I also helped my husband pull stitches out of his scalp after neurosurgery, the nurse he saw just cut the knots off and left the non-soluble sutures in his skin. But my perenium stitches stayed in place until they dissolved, no matter how annoying and itchy they were. My GYN said that it can take up to 6 months for them to dissolve enough to break.

I will never understand why people when have the opportunity or insurance refuse to go to hospital, I totally understand when they don't, but I've seen wealthy people or hardworking people with amazing insurances that refuse medical treatment. Is crazy

Was not expecting that Matpat reference XD had me cackling lol

"if you are the one that it doesn't go fine in the percentage risk that you had of that happening doesn't matter anymore because you're the one that has to deal with those consequences for the rest of your life" really well said MDJ! Exactly what I told a friend of mine who got pressured from a "doula" (with absolutely no medical experience) to deliver her first child (that was breech) vaginally and all the medical professionals advised against it and recommended a c-section...

My OB was very happy when I was pregnant and very quickly went to “yeah, my blood type is A-, my partner’s is B+, so yeah, sign me up for the rhogam.” I grew up being pretty aware of that - my mom is rh-, my dad is rh+, and she had a couple of miscarriages before me, and I just heard about that a lot growing up I guess?

Wow! The blood type thing is fascinating - I'd never thought about how differing blood types between a pregnant person and their baby would impact upon pregnancy - I'd love to watch a video on that!

I amazed at how many people take medical advice from social media. That said, in many cases I understand it because medical care has become too expensive. I don't want to run to my Doctor for every yeast infection and UTI and appreciate a script being called in without an appointment.

Whaaaaaat??? When I had my nexplanon removed it was such a process - the dr had started talking about waiting and going to OR because it had built up scar tissue, but thankfully he got it out in the end. I couldn't imagine going through that at home! I have no words!!

Regarding birth control that will be removed at some point, why isn’t it being billed universally, meaning that the removal of the devise is already covered by the doctor that placed it???

Working in an OB/GYN, the amount of stuff I hear and see from patients. The most common one is people saying they’ve had normal healthy births in the past and don’t need to come so often or will only come for ultrasounds only. One patient decided she didn’t need to come anymore for another 4 months until she thought it was time for an ultrasound. From her last appointment to then, she ended up loosing her babies. She didn’t know when it happened or what caused it. Was in denial but she missed all her opportunities on purpose to follow up and see if there were any issues. Could’ve been easily avoided

Home births are for LOW RISK pregnancies! There are criteria that will risk you out.

I’m O- and your quick explanation was a lot more understandable than all the other “explanations” from other ppl that I’ve heard from; it would still be awesome if you made an entire video on the negative blood type in pregnancy💙(if there’s enough to say for an entire video of course)

Ive seen people discussing taking out their own nexplanons on a swedish parenting/pregnancy site because they didnt want to wait for an appointment

Love these women acting like in history women were just giving birth completely alone with no one to help them and not with experienced midwives or at the very least women who had significant experience with both birthing their own children and helping deliver others

this needs to be a series. Those mom groups are crazy!

Oh MDJ do yourself a favor and don't dive into this sub. I'm not even a medical professional and it's been bad for my mental health Edit to say yes please! To Rhogham vid. I'm a mom who is B- and has had both miscarriages and a live birth so I've had a lot of those shots and I'd love to hear a breakdown of everything they do

I'm really interested in seeing a future video on the RH- topic. I remembered hearing about that during biology class in high school, and then when I found out I myself was A- (don't yet know what my partner is) that was something that came to mind for the future if and when we decided to have children. Loved this video, and looking forward to future ones :)

My sister is a former LD nurse. The stories she has of women who wanted to home birth but then had complications and waited until things were direr and then were mad when they had to have a c-section or other procedures were mind blowing. Most memorable was the woman who came in after laboring for 36+ hours and major bleeding. She had a partial placenta previa and her "midwife" said it would be fine, she could just move it out of the way when it came time. The father preceded to yell at the medical staff when they took his wife in for an emergency c-section. Dude your wife and child are lucky to be alive.

Re rhogam... Baby #9 she already didn't get the shot. She's pregnant with #10, so if 9 was Rh positive, she needs the shot NOW! Id love to see MDJ break down the odds BC it's like 85% of people are Rh positive in general. I would like to know if that's the same if the mom is Rh negative. Keep up the good work, mdj!

Seeing Mama post reminded me it's Monday. ☺️ The Texas government should pay for the IUD removal. More babies.

I went to planned parenthood to get my nexplanon out. I got it when I was a 21 year old during my very first gyno visit. Turns outI had almost all of the side effects and they explained so much to me and I got a bunch of free testing at 24. Im so grateful to them, and I probably would have had someone cut it out for me without them to get better. (I'm 29 now and have an amazing doctor who explains EVERYTHING to me.)

I’m RH- and I would love to learn more about it. Some of what you explained I knew, but with a long fertility journey and after experiencing miscarriage, this is a factor that still scares me. Even with doctors I deeply trust.

Oh my gosh, thank you so, so much for making the point about statistics. Whenever people try to brush off a valid concern by saying the chance of it happening to them is very small, I always respond by saying that a low chance of it happening to them isn’t going to matter anymore once it happens. Statistics matter, and it’s important not to be scared all the time, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take the risks of something seriously.

Idk about the implant, but I had an IUD placed when I was at a job with good health insurance. I switched jobs and got new insurance. The new insurance didn't cover birth control AT ALL, so to get the IUD removed would've cost $400.00 at a regular doctor's office without insurance. Planned Parenthood only would've charged $89.00. I ended up waiting til I got a new job with better insurance and it was covered to get it removed.

When I had an ovarian cancer scare several years ago it was literally less expensive for me to die (funeral costs and loss of my income in the marriage) vs having both ovaries removed (surgery, loosing my business because of recovery time, dealing with menopause in my mid thirties). I rolled the dice that it was non-cancerous growths and kept my fingers crossed that I wouldn’t die in the next thirty days. Still here 🙌

If someone is going to go against medical advice and refuse to give birth in a hospital or refuse medication and then ask Facebook of all places for advice, I’m kind of thinking they deserve to have a serious complications.

I do wish I had someone like you around during my reproductive years. Things would have been very different!

I REALLY want to hear her talk about primary ovarian failure/insufficiency!! I have it even though I'm only 17 and can't find much info about it and my gynecologist and endocrinologist haven't really thoroughly gone through everything about it. I've been through all sorts of testing (genetic included) to try and find the cause but at this point they just think it's because of stress. (have had severe anxiety and depression and stress issues since like 12) I'm on estrogen replacement and have been for like a month and a half and I really want to have a better understanding of how the treatment usually progresses and how it usually affects other adolescents. My health insurance is shitty and I feel like I'm not getting the full picture from my doctors. Obviously I can't have an appt with Dr. Jones but I just want someone to give some comprehensive info about POI and it's treatment progress in younger girls/women because it seems like there's no dsmn info and it's such a weird condition. I'm a 1 in 10,000 occurrence as a teenager with this condition so I hope that's interesting enough to warrant more research 😭 P.S. in case any one is wondering what POI is it's essentially premature menopause. I've had hot flashes, severely elevated FSH, fatigue, vaginal dryness, and it might have contributed to my anxiety and depression. It's also taken me years of doctors appointments to get this diagnosis.

Grew up in a tiny Texas town. Know so many people who sewed up cuts that needed stitches, set their own broken bones, delivered kids at home, and regularly picked up antibiotics at the Coop meant for farm animals because they could not afford expert human medical care. Often even with insurance. Many plans don't pay anything until you've paid out thousands out of pocket first due to high deductibles.

This is horrifying to me. Currently pregnant and I'm terrified of not making it to the hospital on time (a very real possibility in my case). Can't imagine being at home with no one to step in if something goes wrong (also very possible in my case).