I am a pretty expressive person. Those of you who read my blog posts regularly probably already have a sense of this! In person, I often talk with my hands and seem to (apparently) amuse my friends with pronounced facial expressions.
As a result, my birth friends have taken up creating captions for facebook photos I’ve been tagged in. It seems no matter what I am caught doing on camera, those who know me assume I must be talking about birth, and in particular, cervical exams (admittedly, I DO tend to have a pretty strong stance on routine cervical exams during childbirth).
I thought I would share a few of their made-up captions for your amusement, in the interest of a bit of self-deprecating humour:
“…And so, the moral of the story is that too many pelvic exams can slow down a birth!”
Photo: humanizebirth.org
“…and after a totally unnecessary cervical exam, the OB told the mom that she still had to dilate by this much!”
Photo: humanizebirth.org
The speculation is the look on my face indicates I must have just heard someone say “Let’s do a cervical exam just do see how you’re getting along”
Photo: humanizebirth.org
…”And then they did another cervical exam and I’m like, oh nooooo!”
Photo: Jackie Dives, Vancouver Birth Photographer
It seems that my friends believe I have some kind of obsession with the cervix, and that the only thing I could ever POSSIBLY be talking about is how people should keep their latex-gloved fingers OUT of a birthing woman. I wonder where they get that idea???
Captions provided by my silly friends (Charlie & Chloe) who tease me (incessantly) on facebook.
Don’t know me well enough to understand my obsession with cervical exams? Check out my article, The C- Word: Cervical Exams during childbirth
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