Are you Man Enough to be an OB nurse?

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As I was looking at the billboard promoting men in nursing, It read Are you man enough to be a nurse, none of these males however worked in Maternal-Child Health, they all worked in generic men "safe" areas?

SO I'm honestly asking:

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE MAN ENOUGH TO WORK OB (L&D)?

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I think that is awful!! I wonder if the nurse who is asking the mothers to be in the "right way" because it just seems so strange they would say no. I mean, give me a break, there are others in there, and its not like you are there to see their hoo hoo, just the baby. And, the doctor is there too.

Its sad, and I am sorry. Take comfort that if I were giving birth, I wouldn't care at all, especially when it is in a professional setting.

In fact, on both of my children who are now 19 and 21, I had TONS of people in the room with me, and a male tech both times. The first son was born in the USA, a normal non military hospital, and I had an epidural. He was born at 32 weeks....so we had a crew in there.

The 2nd time I was in The Philippines, and I had Filipino nursing students, male nurses, women nurses, NICU staff members both male/female and 3 doctors and on and on. That son was born at 34 weeks, but had RDS and other problems.

Obviously both kids are doing well. The 21 year old is thinking of changing his major from Pre Med to Nursing because I just don't see him getting into med school with his grades just below a 3.0. I am trying to keep him realistic, but I told him I would pay for him to stay an extra year (he is a junior) to get his BSN, because it would be easier now, than later...and take less time. He wants to be a PA or CRNA if he can later.

My other son is 19, 6'3" tall, and is a computer science major.

Anyway, if you like OB/GYN, there are other places, usually military hospitals that will acommodate you, but most military hospitals are now using the civilian hospitals more and more.

Good Luck with the rest of your rotation and perhaps next time you are in there, you can mention to the dad or mom both if you have been taking care of them, that you would appreciate being in on the birth so you can complete your training....I bet they would accept that.

Best to you

Deborah

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I think I could do it... I'm not very far into my clinicals now, but it's all interesting to me. I've been a CNA for a while as well... I've seen enough that I don't really care what I see anymore. I don't think that's what I will choose when I graduate, just because of the attitudes some people have. I hope in my OB rotation that I don't run into a lot of people who have a problem with me being male though...

My wife recently had our first by c-section. I was taking pictures the whole way through, holding my camera over the curtain... it was great! :D

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On of the very few guys in my class was great during our L&D rotation. He is huge so he could really hold and support a laboring woman. He said he would never consider L&D because of the prejudice/preference (however you want to state it). It's a loss.

I told him he should be a midwife. That might be more accepted.

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As I was looking at the billboard promoting men in nursing, It read Are you man enough to be a nurse, none of these males however worked in Maternal-Child Health, they all worked in generic men "safe" areas?

SO I'm honestly asking:

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE MAN ENOUGH TO WORK OB (L&D)?

WAITING TO HEAR INPUT~

Why would any straight man want to work in OB? You might as well turn yourself into a woman for god sakes

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