Judgements about big families

[PegRNBSN]

We had an incident today at work that engendered quite alot of discussion. A mom was having her sixth c-section and seventh child. Throughout the case the anesthiesiologist was making comments to the mom about how this was plenty of kids and no one should want to have more than this, how it would be irresponsible of her to have more children (note he was not referring to the fact that she had so many c-sections and more pregnancies could be dangerous.

The nurse in the case talked to him afterwards saying she thought it was inappropriate for him to be making these judgemental statements to a patient. He responded that there was nothing wrong in giving his opinion to the patient. I asked if people thought it was okay to make judgemental statements to patients who had abortions. Everyone in the room immediately gasped no!! The opinions on the statements regarding the number of children were split about 50/50.. Why is it okay to make judgements about family size but abortion is taboo??? I personally think they both are off limits!!

[BamaBound2bRN]

Hey Teapot,

Are only RN's enlightened? :angryfire

[SmilingBluEyes]

Ok ----That is enough of this thread. Like I said, no one "wins" the argument of "how many kids is right". And yet, here we are still arguing. Might as well bark at the moon.

Since we can't seem to stay in TOS, it's locked. Thank you very much for understanding!