Good lord! I am taking advantage of pre-baby maternity leave and watching Friends with Kids. Lying on the bed screaming and pushing and when she says she doesn't want an episiotomy the dr. just rolls his eyes and snips her (that was actually the part that bothered me)!
I guess now that I know there are other options I can laugh it off, but for so long I thought that was just how it was done and I hate that it is constantly being perpetuated in movies.
Rant over.
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
I've never heard of this movie, but that doesn't sound fun!
nectarine / 2750 posts
@sorrycharlie: I guess I should add that other than that I quite like the movie 
It is on Netflix.
honeydew / 7091 posts
Haha, I tried so hard to avoid all movies and tv shows with delivery scenes the last few month leading up to my delivery! I didn't want anything to freak me out/stress me out
nectarine / 2750 posts
@swurlygurl: I think my husband will punch a doctor if he comes at me with scissors without discussing it with me first
honeydew / 7091 posts
@tlcbaby: Haha - I would hope so! That's what they did with my sister, and I was there to see it! She had been in labor for a LONG time, and vacuums, forceps, massages weren't helping, so the Dr. just picked up the scissors and cut - without telling her!!! I almost passed out... ugh. My nephew popped RIGHT out though... haha
nectarine / 2750 posts
@swurlygurl: Yeah at that point if they asked me I might welcome it, but you can do a girl the common courtesy of letting them in on your plan
coconut / 8305 posts
@tlcbaby: We didn't see the movie b/c it doesn't meet our screening criteria BUT in general I can't do movies & birth scenes. I utterly despise them & feel they're a complete disservice to women! Most women AND men think that's how birth is & they're both scared to death by it! Women fear being in agonizing pain & men feel helpless in ignorance like they can't do/know anything to help! I seriously loathe them. grrrr
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
@tlcbaby: When we watched it I actually told DH that he better not let that happen! And I was going on and on about how they should have listened to her and everything. Then I talked about how our hospital would never do that (well, I hope!) and it won't happen to me. When I got to the part about massaging that area he made me stop talking.
nectarine / 2750 posts
@runsyellowlites: At least in this case the father tried to stop the doctor...it was the father who the doctor ignored! He also tried to give the doctor hand sanitizer because they had seen an episode of ER or some similar medical show where the doctor gave a woman spinal meningitis during delivery. That part was kinda funny.
pineapple / 12526 posts
My friend got cut without the doctor even telling her. The only reason she knows is because her mom watched it happen.
nectarine / 2750 posts
@Foodnerd81: Funny I let my husband off the hook with the massage, too. I am just hoping for the best!
coconut / 8279 posts
When I was pregnant I went to my doctor with a long list of what I did and didn't want. I told her I didn't want a csection or an episiotomy and she was like, "girrrl, no one does!"
In the end I needed the episiotomy if I wanted a vaginal birth because of my big posterior baby. Ah well 
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
@tlcbaby: I wasn't even suggesting that HE have anything to do with it, just saying that people did it to avoid an episiotomy... it was still too much for him. I'll wait until after our childbirth class to really scare him.
nectarine / 2750 posts
@Foodnerd81: Yeah, you can let the childbirth class educator do the scaring for you!
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