As you may or may not be aware I am a glutton for punishment. I also like to make fun of stupid people. As such, I occasionally peruse a chat forum designated especially for women who are either trying to get pregnant, are pregnant, or just like to talk about those things. For the most part I think they're all ridiculous and write about ridiculous things that could easily be addressed if they'd just pick-up the phone and talk to their health care practitioner. But, then again, if they did that I wouldn't have such great fodder for my blog posts. Also, I suppose it's a sign of the times. We can find all of the answers we need/want to hear by simply posing a question to a group of strangers who have no authority on the topic at hand. I digress.
The most recent "WTF" moment came yesterday when a woman asked who else was regularly checking their own cervix. What. The. F***ity. F***?! WHO regularly checks their own cervix and most importantly WHY? I cannot overemphasize enough the WHY. Why are they checking their own cervix and for the love of Pete how do they even know what they're feeling for? That's why people go to medical school and trust me, these women are nowhere near medical school learning. The responses she received were equally WTF as women gave helpful hints on how to squat and...I can't. I won't even make you re-live the whole thread because I care. Just know that it was beyond weird and we'll leave it at that.
This whole thing icks me out to no end. I do not understand women and I am one but I'll be damned if I'm sticking my fingers up where they don't belong. That's what I'm paying an OB-GYN to do, to tell me what's going on in there because well, he should know. So, until next time remember folks: That pregnant woman you shook hands with may have just checked her own cervix.
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