#OBSTETRICS

[heardatmedschool]

Intern 1: I just went into my first C-section!

Intern 2: How did it go?

Intern 1: I don’t want children anymore.

[mysharona1987]

[grad-premed-suffering]

The way authors are using nulliparity and primiparity interchangeably is somewhat frustrating…

[leeromeestudies]

one week until the first ob exam

[aurawinterflower]

Spent 13 hours total on a 12 page paper yesterday. Someone hmu if you want to hear all about obstetric violence and scary labor & delivery interventions

[barbielore]

April 7th is World Health Day; and specifically, in 2025, the theme for World Health Day is "Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures".

I am choosing to interpret this as an excuse to talk about Barbie as an obstetrician or paediatrician - Wikipedia (which isn't always exhaustive) suggests that there are 14 different variations on this specific theme.

When I think of this, I think specifically of Baby Doctor Barbie from the Happy Family line.

The Happy Family line, of course, being the much discussed and highly controversial "pregnant Barbie" release (where the pregnant character was in fact Barbie's friend Midge; Barbie was the "baby doctor" in attendance.)

As someone who was right in the age bracket to have opinions about the Happy Family controversy when it was released, I remember a big talking point of the time being, "We don't care that there's a pregnant Barbie. But why is Barbie being called a 'baby doctor'? Children should learn the word 'obstetrician'."

I still hold this is true: more so now that there are in fact some Barbies who are being advertised as "Pediatrician" and not simply "Children's Doctor".

Mind you, there are still a number of releases named variations on "Baby Doctor", even after the Midge crisis.

And, for that matter, before the Midge crisis. A special shout-out to Children's Doctor Barbie and Kelly, because this one has some particular prop details that delight me.

Kelly has a knee that kicks when tapped with the little reflex-testing hammer! There is an adjustable scale! And, there's a Band-Aid! A "Band-Aid brand Barbie adhesive bandage for you!", in fact!

More people need to be aware of this release.

[delta-m]

You see when a melittologist and a ornithologist love each other very much they come together and consult an obstetrician who brings forth you, the freakiest lil’ guy.

[antithesisofindifference]

I feel like no one's discussing the significance of the circumstances in which Jen was bound. Jen was a midwife, she became bound when she showed up to an obstetrics conference. I find it interesting that Jen had someone under the guise of obstetrics take away her power and autonomy when in US history, the field of obstetrics was created through torturous "experiments" and "surgeries" on enslaved black women because they believed they couldn't feel pain. I'm so impressed by the parallel here, and how they are linking persecution of witches to other forms of oppression as well.

[thestarlightforge]

Agatha left Jennifer alone because she was doing “the real work.” Not just as a witch, but as an 11th generation root worker and midwife.

Because if she’d had a Jen instead of being isolated and alone, Nicky might have had a chance.

[heardatmedschool]

“There’s nothing nicer than the sound of vigorous crying after an emergency C-section.”

[yours-trudy]

The Lady Mechanic. The Chick Checker-Upper. The Womb Worker.

[merlinr77-steth]

Uwe Ochsenknecht as Gynecologist Helmut Kraatz in German history drama series "Charité" (S03E02) checking the pregnant belly of a patient with a Sprague/Rappaport stethoscope.

[leeromeestudies]

Got my OB/pediatric textbook in tonight! I bought it off Thriftbooks for a whopping 5.83$. This is a 150$ textbook. And I also got three discount codes for food & for my cats just in the package!!

Always buy secondhand ♡

[annoyedmultitrylionnaire]

[no-passaran]

November 25th is the international day for the elimination of violence against women. One of the cases where certain kinds of violence (sometimes very extreme, even having been considered torture by UN standards) against women and people perceived as women is normalized is obstetric violence, so I wanted to share this short clip about how healthcare professionals can begin to address it by incorporating respect.

Clip from the documentary “Dona, vostè no té res!” by TV3 about obstetric violence.

[teachingrounds]

Children get a better start to life after a healthy pregnancy and safe birth provided by Medicaid

Amid a national crisis in maternal mortality and morbidity, states use Medicaid to strengthen and improve maternal health care quality and outcomes.. For example, South Dakota has created a pregnancy care management program that offers enhanced reimbursement to providers for care coordination and meeting prenatal and postpartum care program objectives. Nebraska, Tennessee, and New Jersey are piloting programs that provide nutrition counseling and medically indicated meals for pregnant/postpartum individuals.

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/5-key-facts-about-medicaid-and-pregnancy/