73 People Who Work At Maternity Wards Share The Weirdest Things A Father Has Said Or Done

My mom was a general practitioner. She once had a 15 year old girl come in who had a pregnancy test show positive but was adamant she couldn't be pregnant. My mom confirmed the pregnancy but the girl still refused to believe it was true. She went on to explain to my mom it was impossible for her to get pregnant because her boyfriend had told her that if she laid completely still during intercourse then she wasn't "active" and couldn't get pregnant.

Not quite what you are asking for but when my wife was pregnant she fell down the stairs because our other child decided she wanted to jump out of Mom's arms. Cue all the bruising and preterm labor.

After that, appointments got really awkward. Nurses were short with me. I finally told my wife that I had a feeling the staff didn't like me and I figured I'd sit the next appointment out unless she really wanted me there.

My wife said she noticed all of this and decided to ask a nurse what the deal was. Turns out the whole office just assumed I'm the one who pushed her down the stairs. I wasn't even home when it happened. That's when I found out that I apparently look like the type of guy who would push a pregnant woman down the stairs.

Not a medic but I have been told by one midwife that a guy asked her to hurry up with the birth as the footy was starting soon and it's a cup match.

Seeing mom back in the office for her 2 week follow up after delivery to remove stitches (she had a tear that needed repair) only to find out the stitches were gone.

Turns out hubby took them out because they were bothering him during intercourse.

Definitely gave a story to the nurse who was taking care of my wife and I after our second. Having been going through labour all day, only being on liquids and not giving birth till almost 9 at night. We were relaxing (relative term) with the nurse while holding the baby when I turn to ask the nurse a question. She pauses... turns away... turns back to me and responds back with. "Not anytime soon".

Disappointed I try to push for more specifics. Because I had casually asked "When can my wife have snacks" and that was a pretty non-descript answer for somebody who hadn't eaten in 12 hours!

Turns out, she though I was asking when can my wife have intercourse... after a good laugh the correct answer was a couple of hours. I can't imagine what was going through her head before the clarification!

Not a doctor, but pregnant. I told my bf we should make and freeze 1-2 months of meals before the birth, because we'd be too tired to cook. He looked at me knowingly and said, ah, yes, like pureed fruits and vegetables so we don't have to mash them ourselves. He literally thought you feed the baby baby food from day 1. We're in our 30s, college educated, he has a huge, close extended family with lots of babies, and he knows I'm going to breastfeed. I guess he thought you do both from day 1?

My ex boyfriend is an OB/GYN. He got annoyed with me when I was having cramps and said because he was an obgyn he knew exactly what that pain felt like and told me to get over it.

Shoulda seen that as the first of many red flags.

ER nurse here - had a 19 year old woman come in for abdominal pain. She had two kids and was pregnant again.

She said she was not happy to be pregnant again but she didn’t want to break up with her boyfriend. I thought the BF may have been hurting her or not letting her use birth control or something so I closed the door and asked her some questions. Turned out she didn’t know intercourse caused babies. Her education consisted of “get boyfriend/married and the babies arrive” with no other details, so she thought once you had a boyfriend, babies were automatic and intercourse was just a fun thing to do. We had a long talk...

Not an OB but I work in an ER and we had a 22-year-old woman come in a while back. I asked her what she was here for and she said "I found a hole."

"Like an abscess?"

"I found a HOLE."

"Okay. Is it a wound? Does it hurt?"

"No, it's just a HOLE. It's a black hole."

I 100% didn't understand what she was talking about and knew that I wouldn't get any more info from her at the check-in desk, so I gave her the bracelet and sent her to the triage nurse, who had the same conversation with her. She couldn't specify anything beyond "Look, it's just a HOLE!"

It was her private area.

Not an OBGYN here, My ex boyfriend was adamantly against me using tampons/cups/discs or anything that had to be inserted. He told me it would change the shape of my privates. He believed that after a certain amount of time together, my area would change to his shape so we would be a "perfect fit".

That and me using supers or ultra tampons would mean I would need a girthy-er man...because, you know, a wad of cotton would stretch me out like CRAZY.

so my question is...does that "perfect fit" scenario also apply to the 11 other women he was boning on the side? no? just me? aw, i must be special.

Back in my OB rotation in med school, we had a pregnant woman who was supermorbidly obese with a BMI in the 70s. During her first prenatal visit, the resident was asking about her pregnancy history, past difficulty with fertility and conception, problems with the pregnancy so far, etc. Pretty standard stuff as far as I understood at the time.

Husband then chimed in about the conception. Turns out they had no trouble conceiving.... He then went into detail about how the conception went and blew my little inexperienced mind. Basically, the wife’s mother and sister had to help with conception by holding the wife’s thighs out of the way enough that he could get in to do the job. I still don’t have words.

I'm not an OB/GYN. However, I am a flight medic who has delivered three babies. I'll never forget any of them. The second baby I delivered was about 5 weeks early, roadside, in East Jesus nowhere.

The family had gone camping in the desert and mom went into labor. By the time we arrived, there was no turning back and baby's head was visible. Mom was sort of squatting with her forearms on the middle row of seats in a van and her booty was aimed out the door (she was clothed in a loose dress). Just as she was pushing the head out, dad said, "Wait wait wait...we might get blood on the floor!" Mom rounded on him with the biggest glare and said, "F your mom's van!!!"

That became a unit motto.

My mother is an OB/GYN. She did a manual privates exam for a woman and the husband asked her (with an angry tone of voice) if there was any other way of doing the exam besides her using her fingers, because he didn't like her putting her fingers in his wife.

My Dad is a Doctor and his friend was a OB/GYN and was telling my Dad a time when a couple came into his office and they were having difficulty having a child. They were trying for over year to have a child but the wife never got pregnant. Found out that the man and the woman came up in very strict upbringing and the man was never putting his thing inside her. He was basically rubbing his stuff on top of her stuff and would be done across her belly. Then he would take his finger and smear his stuff all over the top of her privates.

My Dad's friend had to explain intercourse to the both of them and tell them what to do and how to do it. Was an awkward conversation.

I just kept thinking... Did they not ever watch adult stuff or have that "talk" with their parents? Have they never seen stuff related to sit ever? Was just a crazy story. I wonder if they ever figured it out and actually eventually had kids or not.

Work in IM but a patient's partner not wanting us to reveal an HIV diagnosis to a patient was definitely a low point for me, though where I work it's probably a stretch to even call that "surprising."

Back in my ER days, a young teenage patient came in with pregnancy type symptoms, of course pregnancy test was positive, and appeared utterly shocked she was pregnant. I asked her if she was active? Yes. Do you use condoms? No. BC? No. Still she seemed surprised this had happened.

Not an OBGYN, but my OBGYN had the intimacy talk with me instead of my parents (they withdrew me from intimacy classes and made me show up to a councilor instead promising they would teach intimacy-ed on their own time).

Anyway, the OBGYN said that bum stuff is legitimate but that you can't get pregnant from it. She had met at least eight couples in her lifetime (age was late forties early fifties) where the couple was having fertility issues and it was because the husband was using the wrong hole. I repeat, the husband was using the wrong hole.

It was even more mortifying because these were very traditional couples (Asian, Indian, Christian) and they were horrified they were committing sodomy. So yeah... The conversations that woman must have had...

Last month, a dad asked one of our OBs for an “extra stitch” during his wife’s repair after delivery. Her immediate response was, “exactly how small do you need it to be, sir?”

Legend on our unit now.

Obligatory not an OB/GYN, but a operating room nurse.

One gynecologist told us once about their gynecologist in training. We all knew him. He was a young, friendly and good guy to work with. He was already married, father of 2 kids at the age of 25. This guy had only one negative aspect. And it was affecting his work dearly. He was extremely religious. This doesn’t have to be negative. But his decision making was based on his religion, and he often refused to offer contraceptives to his female patients and he was reserved talking and explaining contraception methodes with couples. It was against his religion. Eventually word got around with his superiors, and they had to sit him down. Explaining him it’s against the law to withhold any form of help and information.

Sister is a nurse in the mom/baby unit who will also work in labor and delivery.

One dad asked for a c-section "so her privates wouldn't be ruined." Or another dad asking for her to "be stitched up extra tight after delivery"

Bonus Edit: another dad that couldn't seem to keep his clothes on during their entire stay. The nurses had to have multiple conversations with him to keep his clothes on.

"He just kept stripping and walking around. Like he'd go out to the coffee station in the hall with only his whitey tightys on. And he'd be buck naked in the hospital room. We had to ask him to wear pants and a shirt when in the hall and at a minimum pants in the hospital room. No, he was not trying to have intercourse with her".

We had a father bring his PS4 to a delivery room so he could play spider man while his wife got induced.

Another guy was found to be cheating when his wife was postpartum and went to use his phone to take pics of the baby. Whoops.