Doctors Share 33 Weird, Unworldly, And Seriously Concerning Things They've Heard From Pregnant Women

I had a cousin that had a friend that told her a way to save money was to stop taking her birth control for 6 months. Friend told her that birth control pills were still effective for 6 months after taking them. As you can guess, she ended up pregnant, it was the only reason we found out about her genius money saving plan.

Son of an OB/GYN here.

Story 1:

Patient: I can’t be pregnant OB Dad: Why not? Patient: We haven’t had s*x! OB Dad: Have you been naked together? Patient: Yes. OB Dad: Has his semen ever made contact with your vagina? Patient:...yes... OB Dad: Bad news, those little guys are swimmers!

To this day I still wonder if the dude has to pay child support or not. Like “[my American people] your honor, I did not have s*x with that woman!”

Story 2:

Fat woman didn’t know she was pregnant until giving birth. OB Dad said family was very excited for her in spite of being surprised.

Story 3:

Fat woman claimed she was pregnant, claimed she was in labor, OB dad had to explain to her and family there was no baby. Family freaked because they’d all been buying her stuff. She started yelling that he’d taken her baby...the ruse was unreal. I heard she ended up in the news later trying to kidnap a child claiming it was from the pregnancy that didn’t happen.

Not a midwife but do medical triage over the phone. Had a 19yo ring because of abdominal pain, asked further into the assessment is she was pregnant, she is! Call changes tone, how far along? 37 weeks! Could you be in labour, she doesn’t think so. “I just need to put the phone on my bed while I get changed” why are you getting changed “but embarrassing I think I wet myself” do you think that could be your waters, she sounds skeptical but grudgingly agrees it could be, I ask if she can get to the hospital, no everyone in the house is drunk, I ask if I can send an ambulance, she doesn’t want me to as she has “a house full of people watching the match”( this is during the football World Cup) she enventually agrees as though she’s doing me a favour...

Two of my favorites:

What day of the week do I need to have s*x to have a boy?

Do you microchip babies after birth?

A woman in her 40s with 6 children didn't know that women have a urethra separate from their vagina.

A friend of mine works labor and delivery and told me this story. A 13 year old pregnant teen comes in. Days like this for the staff are hard, and they’re trying to be as sensitive as possible. As they’re getting her ready for delivery she starts to panic, saying that the “hole” isn’t big enough for the baby to come out. She thoughts the baby was supposed to come out of the bellybutton.

Midwife here- at least once a month I will being looking after a woman who is shocked to find out that a vaginal examination is the way to check cervical dilatation

The amount of times I’ve had to explain to a patient and/or the father of her baby that the baby in fact does not come out of the “pee hole” is concerning.

Another time, a woman called the L&D unit and told me she knew she was ovulating because the app on her phone told her she was and she had just had s*x with her husband. “Am I pregnant”? were literally the next three words out of her mouth.

Had a woman ask "when do you know if a girl is going to change into a boy?" I had to clarify "you mean when a ultrasound can tell if it's a boy or girl?" She replied "no, we already got an ultrasound that said it was a girl but I don't know when they can turn into a boy." I had no response to that.

I have an aunt who is a gyne, she told me some woman wants to be checked because some man kissed her and she have this superstition that woman can get pregnant through kiss or hand touch. So weird.

Not a midwife but I had an acquaintance try saying that she was only pregnant for 6 months but that her baby came out full-term, like her child was fine and needed zero medical attention due to being so premature.

I don't think she was actively lying, but she was not a bright person. She might have found out she was pregnant at 3 months and just assumed that she was just newly pregnant by the time she found out.

Or maybe she felt bad for drinking/partying early in the pregnancy so she refused to acknowledge it until it was convenient.

Either way it sounded very fishy.

Not an MW or gyno, but one time I made out with a girl and the next day she was crying because she thought she was pregnant. We were 22.

Once heard a pregnant woman say ‘I want to shave but I don’t want to hurt the baby’